Operations Manager
Sun King
Operations
Mozambique
Posted on Feb 11, 2026
Location: Nampula, Mozambique
About the role:
The Operations Manager at Sun King will perform a variety of duties that basically revolves around the overall supply chain functions [Imports, Exports, Procurement, Warehousing (inbound/outbound), Inventory Management, Last Mile Distribution] and Team Management. They will own all Operations KPIs to ensure the company's overall goals are met.
- Department
- Operations
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Mozambique
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Reporting To
- Head of Africa Operations
What you will be expected to do:
- Team management:
- Driving professional growth within the team, mentoring/coaching people to develop valuable skill sets, assess teams’ training needs and facilitate/arrange training as needed and driving development and continuous improvement within the operations team.
- Driving operational efficiency through meeting KPIs including inventory turnover rates, zero stock outs, inventory accuracy, procurement TATs, imports clearance and ensuring transportation/warehousing/procurement and departmental costs are within budget.
- Inventory planning:
- Monitoring the inventory needs and coordinating with the sales team and escalating to relevant teams as needed in order to meet business needs and timelines.
- Inventory management:
- Overseeing inventory management to ensure optimized inventory levels and safekeeping of stock, lean stock keeping in risk areas out of central warehouse, inventory audits both at central/retail stock points.
- Last mile distribution process management:
- Working with operations team as well as cross functional departments to design and implement efficient processes for the last mile distribution of our Easy Buy Direct business;
- Overseeing the process of product removals and completeness of reverse logistics kits.
- Operational Risk Management:
- Identifying key operational risks and implementing formal root cause and corrective action programs.
- Systems and process design:
- Coordinating with technology teams to ensure company systems including applications meet Operational needs.
- Driving operations’ process documentation/measurement/ improvements.
- Monitoring of trade regulations:
- Closely monitoring any changes in tax / duty and escalating accordingly.
- Partnership Management:
- Liaising with operations team customers’ (internal and external) to ensure delivery needs are met on time and accurately.
- Maintaining a procurement policy for use in-country.
- Any other duties as assigned by the line manager.
You might be a strong candidate if you have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Transport and Distribution, Procurement and Logistics or Business administration. A master's degree is an advantage.
- Minimum of 6 years’ experience in Supply Chain Management, with at least 5 years in warehouse, team management & logistics/distribution at a senior level.
- Must demonstrate previous management experience, with ability to drive professionals and guide their career development.
- Proven ability to work with distributors, 3PLs and sales teams to ensure smooth distribution operations as well as ability to implement process improvement initiatives.
- Demonstrates knowledge of the relevant legislation pertaining to the region.
- Is knowledgeable about inventory management, transport routes, warehousing and distribution networks.
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills in both English and Portuguese.
- Ability to work remotely under minimal supervision.
- Is highly meticulous with high degree of knowledge in ERP, Excel/Google Sheets, and other review tools.
- Has experience in business planning, procurement, warehouse, retail management and fleet management.
- Demonstrates humility, value oriented and is passionate about working with rural, off-grid consumers and resolving their issues.
- Is oriented by the social mission to provide energy to consumers and employment to rural communities.
- Very good social / partnership skills; able to build and maintain effective relationships with colleagues, members and external partners.
What we offer (in addition to compensation and statutory benefits):
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry.
An open-minded, partnership culture made up of talented colleagues who are passionate by the need 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 mentor, 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 learning comes from diversity on every spectrum. We work to make sure every Sun King team member knows that they belong, knowing that sustaining a broad 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.
We believe that innovation and learning comes from diversity on every spectrum. We work to make sure every Sun King team member knows that they belong, knowing that sustaining a broad 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 built a new kind of energy utility: distributed, green, customer-centric, and affordable. We bring clean, reliable, decentralized energy directly into people’s lives — from solar kits that provide first-time energy access to multi-kilowatt systems that serve both off-grid users and grid-connected customers powering larger homes, schools, hospitals, farms, offices, and light manufacturing.
Already, 25 million homes and businesses rely on Sun King for electricity supply and the appliances and services it enables: lighting, televisions, fans, refrigeration, and smartphones.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
