Trade Marketing Associate, North (Nigeria)
Sun King
Marketing & Communications
Nigeria
Posted on Jul 2, 2025
Job Location: Abuja, Nigeria
About the role:
The Sun King Marketing team is looking for a Trade Marketing Associate who will drive disbursement of marketing merchandise. We are looking for someone who is passionate and excited about the opportunity to bring affordable, energy to homes.
- Department
- Marketing & Creative
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Nigeria
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
What you would be expected to do
- Think, design, produce, and promptly distribute promotional materials tailored to the needs of the trade.
- Identify, plan and execute Sun King’s participation in trade Events and Exhibitions in the northern part of Nigeria.
- Ensure accountability and accuracy of marketing merchandise in the stores and northern warehousing, acting as custodians of these merchandises.
- Ensure marketing stock sheet and trackers are regularly updated.
- Conduct trade visits to gather insights on customer behavior, and route-to-market effectiveness.
- Assist with the northern retail outlet and collection centre branding.
- Work closely with the regional sales team to identify growth opportunities and ensure execution of marketing-led sales initiatives.
You might be a strong candidate if you have
- Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or related field.
- 2+ years of trade marketing, field marketing, or sales experience, preferably in FMCG, telecoms, or solar/energy sector.
- Familiarity with the northern Nigerian market and ability to speak Hausa is a strong advantage.
- Good people management skills and the ability to manage field teams, agents, and third-party vendors.
- Comfortable with frequent travel across the region.
- Excellent communication, reporting, and project coordination skills.
- Must be adaptable, and solution-oriented.
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.
