Partnerships Associate Francophone West Africa (Bilingual)
Sun King
Sales & Business Development
Cameroon
Posted on May 24, 2025
Job Location: Dakar, Senegal.
About the role:
We are seeking a proactive and results-oriented Partnerships Associate to assist with our growth in the renewable energy sector. This role involves identifying new business opportunities, building and maintaining strong client relationships, and driving sales and partnership initiatives, particularly in the solar and clean energy markets
- Department
- Partnerships Sales
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Cameroon
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Reporting To
- Partnership Manager, Francophone West and Central Africa
What you will be expected to do
- Research and source new partners
- Identify and develop new business opportunities
- Drive onboarding of new partnerships
- Grow existing accounts
- Plan and supervise continuous on-going engagement with partners
- Address and resolve partners’ complaints
- Interact with internal cross functional teams to provide partner inventory projections and process partner
- orders from order initiation to shipment phase
- Compile reports on account progress, goals, and projections for stakeholders
- Develop a thorough knowledge of partners’ needs and requirements
You might be a strong candidate if you
- Have Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Renewable Energy, Engineering, or related field.
- Have minimum of 3 years of experience in sales or a similar role (experience in renewable energy is a strong plus)
- Have experience in customer relationship management.
- Have proficiency in MS Office and relevant software.
- Have excellent oral and written communication skills in French and English.
- Have strong data skills and problem-solving abilities.
- Have proven experience in account management.
- Have the ability to handle multiple client accounts.
- Have strong negotiation skills.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Have ability to work well in a team and with less supervision.
- Have strong people management skills.
- Have strong attention to detail and accuracy.
- Have ability to work in a fast-paced and changing environment.
- Have willingness and ability to travel frequently
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.
