Business Development and Partnerships Associate
Sun King
Sales & Business Development
Kenya
Posted on Dec 9, 2025
Location: Kenya
About the role:
We are looking for a Business Development and Partnerships Associate to help expand our market presence. This role suits a sales professional who builds strong relationships, identifies opportunities, and grows revenue across both existing accounts and new retail channels. You will manage key accounts, drive the route-to-market approach, and ensure our products reach a wide consumer base through our partners.
About the role:
We are looking for a Business Development and Partnerships Associate to help expand our market presence. This role suits a sales professional who builds strong relationships, identifies opportunities, and grows revenue across both existing accounts and new retail channels. You will manage key accounts, drive the route-to-market approach, and ensure our products reach a wide consumer base through our partners.
- Department
- Partnerships Sales
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Kenya
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
What you would be expected to do:
- Account Management & Growth
Build and manage relationships with existing partners. Act as the main point of contact, ensure strong client satisfaction, and identify opportunities to expand each account.
- Retail Channel Expansion
Use your retail experience to establish and onboard new retail outlets, distributors, and partners. Create and implement plans that increase product visibility and availability on the ground.
- Route-to-Market Strategy
Design and execute route-to-market (RTM) approaches that strengthen distribution, improve supply chain efficiency, and increase market reach for Sun King’s solar product portfolio.
- Sales Execution & Target Achievement
Manage the full sales cycle from prospecting to negotiation and closing. Consistently meet and exceed clear sales targets and KPIs.
- Market Intelligence
Maintain close awareness of field activity. Track market trends, activities in the market, and customer feedback to provide insights that guide product enhancements and sales approaches.
- Partnership
Work with marketing, supply chain, technical, and other cross-functional teams to ensure a smooth customer experience and align sales efforts with company priorities.
You might be a strong candidate if you have:
• 3–5 years of experience in a fast-paced sales environment, ideally within the solar energy, consumer electronics, or FMCG sectors.
• Experience in account management, with a consistent record of expanding and maintaining key client relationships.
• Practical retail experience, including working with distributors, overseeing in-store presence, and familiarity with retail operations.
• Strong capability in developing and implementing effective route-to-market (RTM) approaches.
• Clear communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Able to work with minimal direction and contribute effectively within a team.
• A bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field is preferred.
• Experience in account management, with a consistent record of expanding and maintaining key client relationships.
• Practical retail experience, including working with distributors, overseeing in-store presence, and familiarity with retail operations.
• Strong capability in developing and implementing effective route-to-market (RTM) approaches.
• Clear communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Able to work with minimal direction and contribute effectively within a team.
• A bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field is preferred.
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.
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.
