Human Resource Business Partner
Sun King
People & HR
Madagascar
Posted on Sep 2, 2025
Location: Antananarivo, Madagascar
About the role:
The HR Business Partner will assist the full employee lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding to performance management and employee relations. The role works closely with the HR Leader, East and Southern Africa, to drive a strong performance culture, ensure compliance with HR policies and legislation, and deliver timely payroll and reporting inputs. This position also plays a key role in handling grievances, assisting disciplinary processes, safeguarding employee data, and steering HR projects to advance the company’s people agenda.
About the role:
The HR Business Partner will assist the full employee lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding to performance management and employee relations. The role works closely with the HR Leader, East and Southern Africa, to drive a strong performance culture, ensure compliance with HR policies and legislation, and deliver timely payroll and reporting inputs. This position also plays a key role in handling grievances, assisting disciplinary processes, safeguarding employee data, and steering HR projects to advance the company’s people agenda.
- Department
- Human Resources and Administration
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Madagascar
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
What you will be expected to do:
- Support recruitment of staff across a range of professional levels from associates to senior team leaders within defined Service Level Agreements and budgets.
- Onboarding and induction of new employees
- Working with the HR Lead, East & Southern Africa, to drive a strong performance culture amongst the Madagascar teams
- Handling employee grievances amicably and within reasonable timelines
- Ensuring HR policies are up to date and accessible to all staff
- Attending disciplinary hearings and ensuring disciplinary procedures are followed in line with company policy and relevant legislation
- Ensuring privacy of employee data and maintain up to date personnel files
- Providing timely payroll inputs for processing
- Actively participating in HR projects aimed towards delivering the HR agenda
- Delivering excellent information through weekly and/or monthly HR reports
- Manage performance for field sales teams
You might be a strong candidate if you:
- Are excited about joining a fast growing, entrepreneurial and innovative environment with an opportunity to build teams, local HR practices and policies
- Have 3-4 years of HR generalist experience, ideally with a bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management.
- Are comfortable and experienced working in a multi-cultural and diverse environment
- Are flexible to travel
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.
We place great importance on sustaining a diverse, inclusive work environment.
We believe that innovation and understanding comes from diversity on every spectrum. We work to make sure every Sun King team member knows that they belong, knowing that sustaining an inclusive workplace requires conscious effort and is a continuous journey, not an end-state.
Sun King recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes people based on their experience, skills, effort, and results. We explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, religion, caste, national origin, color, gender, marital status, family structure, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status, or disability.
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.
