Warehouse Manager Kenya
Sun King
Kenya
Posted on Sep 1, 2025
The Team you will join:
This team is led by Chief Operations Officer and works at the intersection of business, technology, and to ideate, develop, pilot, and launch new life-changing solar products across Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
About the Role
We are therefore looking for a dedicated and passionate Warehouse Manager to join our Operations team. They will be expected to perform a variety of duties to ensure consistent service delivery as per assigned KPIs. This will include but not limited to Warehouse Layout Planning, Inbound & Outbound Inventory Oversight, Inventory Planning and Warehouse Associate team management.
This team is led by Chief Operations Officer and works at the intersection of business, technology, and to ideate, develop, pilot, and launch new life-changing solar products across Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.
About the Role
We are therefore looking for a dedicated and passionate Warehouse Manager to join our Operations team. They will be expected to perform a variety of duties to ensure consistent service delivery as per assigned KPIs. This will include but not limited to Warehouse Layout Planning, Inbound & Outbound Inventory Oversight, Inventory Planning and Warehouse Associate team management.
This role is an exciting career opportunity for an innovator with a combination of technical and organizational skills who is passionate about working with off-grid consumers and delivering the next generation of Sun King products. The products and services you will build will have a transformative impact for millions of households.
More than 80 million people rely on Sun King’s solar home energy solutions across 40 countries, and the majority of Sun King customers live in areas where infrastructure is limited, where the electric grid is unreliable, or far from densely populated urban centers. The Sun King Operations team makes sure Sun King products are produced, shipped, imported, and distributed to consumers around the world and ensures that warranty products are promptly attended to, and end of life products are disposed of.
The Operations team is comprised of innovative, solutions oriented people that work closely with Sun King’s global and regional Research and Procurement, Sales, Finance, and Marketing teams to make sure hundreds of thousands of Sun King.
- Department
- Operations
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Kenya
- Workplace type
- Onsite
What you would be expected to do:
Warehouse Operations
- Oversee the daily operations of the warehouse, including receiving, inspection, storage, and dispatch of finished goods, spare parts and merchandise at designated facilities within the set SLAs
- Coordinate on warehousing monthly billings based on agreed SLAs
- Following up with 3PL and all relevant parties to ensure order picking/filling is done accurately
- Ensuring dispatch to B2C & B2B networks is done in full and on time
- Timely follow ups with relevant parties on distribution anomalies
- Implement best practices for warehouse efficiency, including lean principles and cost saving initiatives
- Supervise a team of warehouse staff; KPI setting, tracking, including training and performance evaluations
Inventory Management
- Liaising with 3rd party partners to ensure the correct warehouse layout is maintained at all times to ensure space optimization
- Develop and maintain inventory control procedures to minimize loss and ensure accurate tracking of products.
- Liaising with the distribution and planning team to set inventory reorder levels
- Ensuring inventory is managed in accordance to the best practice of FIFO
- Planning and conducting cycle spot checks, monthly stock takes and end month stock reconciliations
Health, Safety and Compliance
- Ensuring basic maintenance standards and compliance with health and safety regulations.
- Train, guide and evaluate new warehouse workers on safety rules.
- Ensure warehouse teams adhere to set warehouse safety guidelines such as but not limited to use of PPEs at all times.
Reporting and Analysis
- Generate regular reports on warehouse performance, including inventory levels, order fulfillment, and efficiency metrics
- Analyze data to identify opportunities for process improvement and cost reduction
- Any other duties as assigned by your supervisor.
You might be a strong candidate if you:
- Possess bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Logistics, Transport and Distribution, Procurement and Logistics or Business administration. Master's degree is an advantage.
- Have a minimum of 6 years’ experience in Supply Chain Management, with at least 4 years in warehouse management & logistics/distribution at a mid senior level
- Possess proven ability to work with distributors, 3PLs and sales teams to ensure smooth distribution operations as well as ability to implement process improvement initiatives
- Demonstrate knowledge of the relevant legislation pertaining to the region
- Are knowledgeable about inventory management, transport routes, warehousing and distribution networks
- Are knowledgeable and experienced with a robust ERP and WMS
- Possess advanced skills in large volume data management
- Have excellent verbal & written communication skills
- Are able to work remotely under minimal supervision
- Have effective People management skills
What we offer (In addition to a competitive salary)
- An opportunity to grow as a professional in a dynamic, fast-growing, high impact industry;
- The chance to work in an open-minded, collaborative culture surrounded by enthusiastic Greenlighters who are driven by the challenge of continuously innovating and growing a smart, sustainable business with profound impact on the world;
- 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 Greenlight Academy.
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.
