Associate, Human Resource Business Partner
Sun King
South Africa
Posted on Oct 29, 2025
Job Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
About the role:
As Sun King seeks to expand its business in South Africa, we are looking for an experienced Associate, Human Resource Business Partner, to join the global Human Resources Management team. The Associate Human Resource Business Partner, South Africa, will leverage their expertise to manage the workforce while providing strategic assistance to ensure the organisation has adequate capacity to build new business units and expand existing operations in the region.
About the role:
As Sun King seeks to expand its business in South Africa, we are looking for an experienced Associate, Human Resource Business Partner, to join the global Human Resources Management team. The Associate Human Resource Business Partner, South Africa, will leverage their expertise to manage the workforce while providing strategic assistance to ensure the organisation has adequate capacity to build new business units and expand existing operations in the region.
- Department
- Human Resources and Administration
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- South Africa
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Reporting To
- HR Lead, West & Central Africa
What you would be expected to do:
- Partnering and helping Sun King's direct entry of its direct-to-consumer pay-as-you-go channel in South Africa.
- Oversee recruiting, people operations, learning and development, and help all employees by enhancing our Sun King Way culture.
- Bring people expertise and develop solutions to help the business to deliver its strategy.
- Act as a focal point of people expertise and influence and build relationships with people around the business
- Recruit staff across various professional levels, from associates to senior team managers.
- Facilitate learning and development programs and initiatives that provide internal development opportunities for employees.
- Oversee end-to-end performance management process, including the performance improvement process, employee disciplinary meetings, annual reviews, and so on.
- Adhere to federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations; recommend best practices; review policies and practices to maintain compliance.
- Keep abreast of the latest trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources, talent management, and employment law.
- Oversee administrative functions to ensure seamless operations.
You might be a strong candidate if you:
- Have 3+ years of HR management experience.
- Experience in the solar industry will be an added advantage but not a must.
- Have strong partnerships skills to work with cross-functional teams and deliver on expectations.
- Have a Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management or related social science subjects.
- Can fluently communicate in English and other local languages.
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.
