Senior Associate, Import & Export (Nigeria)
Sun King
Nigeria
Posted on May 16, 2025
Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria
About the role:
The role involves managing documentation, ensuring compliance with regulations, coordinating with internal and external parties, and overseeing the flow of goods across international borders to the warehouse. inventory management, including stock reporting, dispatch coordination, and returns processing. It involves ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance in stock handling, while supporting cross-functional teams with reliable data and operational efficiency.
The role involves managing documentation, ensuring compliance with regulations, coordinating with internal and external parties, and overseeing the flow of goods across international borders to the warehouse. inventory management, including stock reporting, dispatch coordination, and returns processing. It involves ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and compliance in stock handling, while supporting cross-functional teams with reliable data and operational efficiency.
- Department
- Operations
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Nigeria
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
What you would be expected to do
- Process all import shipping documents (Form M to PAAR) ahead of the arrival of each consignment in Nigeria.
- Achieve delivery of consignments to warehouses within stipulated days of arrival at the port in Nigeria.
- Process all export shipping documents (CI and PL).
- Ensure receiving all BLs within the stipulated days of vessel departure from port of origin.
- Effectively work with the planning, warehouse and finance teams to ensure a seamless import and delivery process.
- Maintain good relationships and communication with clearing agents and government officials to ensure an itch free clearing process and to ultimately deliver consignments at the warehouses within the estimated delivery time.
- Ensure timely update is provided to stakeholders on all issues arising from the port.
- Ensure adherence to all regulations, e.g. using the right HS codes to process shipping documents to prevent delays in clearing each consignment.
- Process duty payment within the stipulated timeline, receiving the invoice from clearing agents, also follow up with approvals to ensure payment is made.
You might be a strong candidate if you
- Good organizational and problem-solving abilities, with a keen eye for detail and process improvement.
- B.sc/HND in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, or a related field—or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 3 years of experience in import and export operations, inventory control, or logistics management.
- Experience with import and export documentation processing, PO and GRN Computation on SAP.
- Outstanding communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders across departments external stakeholders.
What Sun King offers
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.
About Sun King
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection. Sun King has connected more than 20 million homes to solar power across Africa and Asia, adding over 200,000 homes each month.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.11 a day via mobile money or cash.
Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright. To date, our Sun King solar products have saved customers more than $4 billion cumulatively.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 28,000 field agents — over 650,000 payments each day. Embedded electronics inside each Sun King device regulate usage based on payments, similar to the operation of a pre-paid mobile or electricity meter.
From cost-effective solar systems that provide home lighting and phone charging to robust solar inverters that can power high-energy appliances such as laptops, computers, refrigerators, and more, effectively acting as a full stand-in for grid power, Sun King’s products cater to a wide range of income segments and energy needs. Leveraging its proven distribution network and brand, Sun King is expanding its range of products and services to encompass clean cooking, electric mobility, entertainment, and more, aiming to address the needs of our underserved customers.
Sun King employs 2,800 full-time staff in 12 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families.
Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 44% of Sun King’s workforce.
