Procurement Associate
Sun King
About the role:
The Procurement Associate will play a critical role in enabling both strategic and operational procurement for Sun King. The role oversees the timely sourcing of high-quality goods and services, optimising costs, maintaining strong supplier relationships, and ensuring full alignment with Sun King’s end-to-end supply chain, compliance, and warranty obligations.
- Application Deadline
- February 17, 2026
- Department
- Operations
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Tanzania
- Workplace type
- Onsite
What you would be expected to do:
1. Sourcing & Supplier Management
- Facilitate indirect procurement of goods and services for the solar, phones and clean-cooking businesses, including equipment, consumables, and operational services, in line with approved supplier lists and procurement policies.
- Liaise with suppliers on pricing, specifications, timelines, production schedules, and shipment readiness to ensure the timely availability of materials.
- Conduct price surveys and market benchmarking to track cost trends and support supplier evaluation and cost rationalisation initiatives.
- Review and compare supplier quotations to ensure value for money, quality compliance, and commercial viability.
- Maintain and regularly update supplier master data, including qualifications, certifications, delivery performance, pricing structures, and product portfolios.
- Support contract negotiations and maintain strong, professional supplier relationships to ensure service continuity and reliability.
- Research, assess, and onboard new suppliers, including conducting commercial and quality due diligence in line with Sun King standards.
- Participate in and assist with quarterly vendor performance reviews, tracking KPIs such as cost competitiveness, timelines, quality, and responsiveness.
2. Purchase Order & P2P Management
- Prepare and manage Purchase Orders (LPOs) in SAP based on approved stakeholder requests and budget availability.
- In collaboration with other stakeholders, receive and review supplier invoices and other documents (delivery notes, LPOs, GRNs) to ensure accuracy and compliance before initiating the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process.
- Coordinate closely with the Warehousing and Quality teams to ensure timely receipt, inspection, and acceptance of goods and services.
- Ensure all procurement transactions are accurately captured and closed in SAP, maintaining system integrity and audit readiness.
3. Cross-Functional Coordination
- Work closely with logistics, warehousing, finance, IMPEX, and field operations teams to ensure uninterrupted product and service availability.
- Provide timely procurement status updates, risk flags, and resolution plans to internal stakeholders to facilitate effective decision-making.
4. Cost Control, Data & Reporting
- Work on cost analysis, procurement dashboards, and management reporting covering spend, timelines, savings, and supplier performance.
- Identify and work on the implementation of cost-saving and efficiency initiatives without compromising quality, compliance, or service levels.
- Regularly analyse the purchase register to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and compliance with internal controls.
- Track and report monthly procurement metrics, including savings achieved, turnaround time (TAT), supplier performance, and system closure rates.
You would be a strong candidate if you:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Procurement & Logistics, Business Administration, Finance, Operations Management, or a related field.
- 3–5 years’ experience in procurement, sourcing, or supply chain operations, preferably within energy, FMCG, telecoms, manufacturing, or fast-moving operational environments.
- Strong working knowledge of ERP systems, preferably SAP, with hands-on experience in Purchase Orders, GRNs, invoicing, and P2P processes.
- Proven experience in supplier sourcing, onboarding, contract support, and vendor performance management.
- Demonstrated capability in cost analysis, quotation evaluation, market benchmarking, and spend reporting.
What Sun King Offers (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 Centre for Leadership.
About Sun King
Sun King combines energy generation, energy-efficient appliances, installation, and financing into one seamless offering. Think of it as a distributed utility, designed for wherever energy is needed and designed to scale with its users as incomes and energy needs grow.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ (PAYG) purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.14 a day via mobile money or cash.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 35,000 field agents — over 1 million payments each day. To date, Sun King has extended more than $1.4 billion in PAYG loans to customers.
Sun King began by powering homes and businesses with solar systems delivered through PAYG financing. Now, we’re using the same model to make smartphones and clean cooking equipment affordable: helping households connect to the digital economy and transition from wood-based fuels to modern, sustainable alternatives.
Sun King employs 3,500 full-time staff in 14 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 42% of Sun King’s workforce.

