Manager, Business Transformation
Sun King
Kenya
Posted on Jun 30, 2025
Location: Kenya, Nairobi
About the role
Sun King is seeking a highly driven Manager to join our Business Transformation (BT) team. You will lead and manage complex transformation programs and strategic projects that directly drive Sun King's growth, efficiency, and customer impact across markets. You will mentor two members and be expected to drive rigorous project execution, foster collaboration across markets, and ensure effective change management is embedded in all transformation work. As such, we are looking for someone with strong strategy, PMO or management consulting experience, who is passionate about making an impact in a fast-growing pan-African company. This is a high-visibility role at the center of Sun King's strategy execution.
The BT Team’s Pillars: Our work is structured around 5 key pillars:
The BT Team’s Pillars: Our work is structured around 5 key pillars:
- Project & Pilot Management: Driving strategic projects and pilots that deliver measurable impact.
- Change Management: Ensuring our teams and customers adopt new processes, tools, and ways of working successfully.
- Process Improvement & Automation: Redesigning and improving key business processes for efficiency and scale.
- Market & Product Expansion: Supporting Sun King’s entry into new markets and products.
- Business Insights & Research: Delivering actionable insights that inform decisions and strategy.
- Department
- EasyBuy Program Management
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Kenya
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
- Reporting To
- Business Transformation Lead Africa
What you would be expected to do:
Change Management:
- Develop and execute change management strategies for all major projects and pilots, using industry-standard methodologies (such as PROSCI) to support the adoption of new processes and systems.
- Build organizational capability for sustainable change across markets.
Measure and report on change adoption and effectiveness.
Leadership & People Mentoring:
- Mentor, coach, and develop members in the team.
- Provide project guidance and strategic direction across transformation programs.
- Foster a culture of accountability, learning, and impact in the BT team.
Project & Pilot Management:
- Project management of high-priority transformation initiatives across the business.
- Drive end-to-end project management — from scoping and planning to execution and handover.
- Ensure all projects are delivered on time, on scope, and with measurable outcomes.
- Process Improvement & Digital Transformation:
- Identify opportunities for process redesign, automation, and simplification.
- Partner with tech teams to implement solutions that drive efficiency, cost savings, and quality improvement.
Process Improvement & Digital Transformation:
- Identify opportunities for process redesign, automation, and simplification.
- Partner with tech teams to implement solutions that drive efficiency, cost savings, and quality improvement.
Expansion Support:
- Manage go-to-market programs for new market entries and product launches.
- Work with regional heads to drive readiness and execution.
Insights & Reporting:
- Drive data-driven insights to inform transformation priorities and track progress.
- Present findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders in a clear and actionable manner.
Stakeholder Engagement:
- Build trusted relationships with key internal and external stakeholders across functions and geographies.
- Facilitate cross-functional collaboration and drive alignment on project priorities and execution.
You might be a strong candidate if you have/are:
- A bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in fast-paced organizations, including 2+ years in management consulting, strategy, PMO, or transformation roles where you developed skills in at least 4 of the following areas: (1) Project & Pilot Management. (2) Change Management. (3) Process Management & Redesign (Lean Six Sigma). (4) Digital Transformation. (5) Market Expansion & Product Launches. (5) Business Insights & Analytics
- Proven experience mentoring teams.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills — experience engaging senior leadership.
- Fluency with key business tools: Excel/Sheets, PowerPoint/Slides, BI platforms, Project Management tools like Notion and Click Up.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and the ability to navigate complex and changing environments, typical of consulting teams.
- Good problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated ability of taking ownership of work, think innovatively about business, and solve complex problems.
- Willingness to spend at least 30% of the time traveling to drive cross-functional engagements to understand the ins and outs of the business.
- Passion for Sun King’s social mission to power access to brighter lives by bringing innovative, trustworthy, renewable energy to underserved consumers.
- A clear alignment to the Sun King Way.
Nice-to-Haves:
- MBA or relevant Master's degree.
- Industry-recognized Change Management certification (PROSCI, APMG, CCMP or equivalent).
- Project Management certification (PMP, PRINCE2, Agile/Scrum Master).
- Experience applying design thinking principles and Human Centre Design (HCD) (Mindsets > Process and Doing > Thinking). See link.
- Experience in energy access, last-mile distribution, fintech, or similar industries.
- Experience working across multiple geographies and cultures. Fluency in French is a plus.
What we offer (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):
- 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.
