LPG Expansion Operations Lead
Sun King
Operations
Zambia
Posted on Aug 8, 2025
Location: Lusaka
About the role:
The LPG Expansion Operations at Sun King will be in charge of setting up and expanding country LPG operations. This role will focus on, but not be limited to, ensuring the company is compliant with all regulatory requirements, onboarding and vendor management, and optimizing last-mile deliveries through better route planning and logistics management.
About the role:
The LPG Expansion Operations at Sun King will be in charge of setting up and expanding country LPG operations. This role will focus on, but not be limited to, ensuring the company is compliant with all regulatory requirements, onboarding and vendor management, and optimizing last-mile deliveries through better route planning and logistics management.
- Department
- Operations
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Zambia
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Reporting To
- Country Store Manager
What you would be expected to do:
Regulatory
- Ensure that the company is compliant with all national regulations to operate an LPG distribution business.
- Ensure all licenses are up to date
Onboarding and vendor management
- Research and onboard LPG suppliers in the country.
- Assess LPG suppliers to ensure they are compliant with all country regulations on LPG handling, transportation, and distribution.
- Work with the procurement team to ensure timely payments for gas, cylinders, and other expenses in accordance with the set credit terms.
Last-mile deliveries
- Check and recommend the best transportation models, from depots to shops to customers. Reduce costs and travel times to clients and back to the depots.
- Oversee the management of transport assets, including motorcycles and trucks
- Process Optimization: Develop and refine order management, inventory control, and delivery routing processes to improve efficiency and reduce costs. Build customer-centric processes that ensure timely and cost-efficient delivery.
- Performance Monitoring: Implement KPIs and dashboards to monitor the performance of last-mile delivery operations. Use these metrics to drive continuous improvement.
- Training: Provide training and help to field team members involved in LPG operations.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Work closely with sales agents and retail operations teams to know their needs and ensure seamless delivery processes.
Inventory management
- Ensure company assets, including LPG measurement devices, cylinders, and gas, are managed and accounted for by rigorous process implementation and controls, resulting in <2% of unaccounted inventory loss.
- Cost Management: Identify hidden costs and implement strategies to reduce them. Ensure that delivery expenses align with budget forecasts.
- Technology Integration: Leverage technology solutions (e.g., delivery tracking software) to enhance the visibility and efficiency of delivery operations.
You might be a strong candidate if you:
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, operations, business administration, or a related field.
- Good knowledge and experience in logistics, supply chain management, or last-mile delivery operations.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex data.
- Excellent project management skills with a track record of successful process improvement initiatives.
- Experience working with third-party delivery vendors and negotiating contracts.
- Proficiency in using logistics and delivery management software.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Propose and pilot new delivery methods, such as using tuk-tuks or motorcycles.
- Monitor and evaluate the impact of implemented changes on delivery efficiency and agent productivity.
- Provide regular reports and recommendations to senior management on delivery optimization strategies.
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.
