Procurement and IMPEX Coordinator
Sun King
Operations
Tanzania
Posted on Mar 20, 2026
Job Location: Arusha, Tanzania
About The Role:
The Procurement & IMPEX Coordinator plays a key role in managing Sun King’s end-to-end procurement and import/export operations across the solar, phones, and clean-cooking businesses.
This role ensures timely sourcing, cost efficiency, regulatory compliance, and smooth importation of goods, while guiding the Procurement Associate and aligning procurement activities with Sun King’s supply chain, finance, and operational goals.
About The Role:
The Procurement & IMPEX Coordinator plays a key role in managing Sun King’s end-to-end procurement and import/export operations across the solar, phones, and clean-cooking businesses.
This role ensures timely sourcing, cost efficiency, regulatory compliance, and smooth importation of goods, while guiding the Procurement Associate and aligning procurement activities with Sun King’s supply chain, finance, and operational goals.
- Department
- Operations
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Tanzania
- Workplace type
- Onsite
What you will be expected to do:
Procurement Strategy & Supplier Management
- Manage procurement activities for indirect and selected direct categories across solar, phones, and clean-cooking businesses
- Handle supplier sourcing, evaluation, onboarding, and performance tracking in line with procurement policies
- Conduct supplier discussions on pricing, timelines, payment terms, and service levels to ensure value and continuity
- Gather market insights, benchmarking data, and cost information to inform sourcing approaches
- Review vendor performance regularly, tracking KPIs such as cost, timelines, quality, and timeliness
- Maintain accurate supplier records, including contracts, certifications, and performance data
IMPEX (Import & Export) Coordination
- Oversee importation activities, including shipment planning, documentation, and clearance processes
- Ensure compliance with local regulatory requirements (e.g., TBS, TRA) and international trade standards
- Work with clearing agents, freight forwarders, and shipping partners to ensure efficient cargo movement
- Review and validate shipping and import documentation (Commercial Invoice, Packing List, Bill of Lading/AWB, CoC)
- Track shipments, flag potential risks or delays early, and follow through to resolution
Purchase Order & P2P Oversight
- Review Purchase Orders (LPOs) in SAP to ensure alignment with budgets and procurement plans
- Ensure accuracy of invoices, delivery notes, GRNs, and system records within the Procure-to-Pay (P2P) process
- Maintain complete and accurate procurement records in SAP for audit readiness
- Resolve invoice discrepancies and supplier payment queries with finance teams
Team Coordination & Cross-Functional Engagement
- Guide the Procurement Associate in daily activities, ensuring clarity of priorities and consistent delivery
- Define and track KPIs across procurement activities, including turnaround time (TAT), cost efficiency, supplier performance, and compliance
- Hold regular check-ins to review progress, identify gaps, and align on next steps
- Maintain a structured approach to performance tracking and feedback
- Act as a coordination point for resolving operational issues, ensuring timely communication and closure
- Provide clear updates to stakeholders on performance, risks, and mitigation actions
Cost Control, Data & Reporting
- Prepare procurement reports and dashboards covering spend, savings, turnaround times, and supplier performance
- Identify opportunities for cost efficiency and process improvements while maintaining quality and compliance
- Monitor procurement spend across cost centers and highlight optimization opportunities
- Track and report key procurement and IMPEX KPIs, including TAT, savings, supplier performance, and shipment timelines
Compliance, Process Improvement & Audit
- Ensure procurement and IMPEX activities align with Sun King policies, internal controls, and regulatory requirements
- Maintain complete and well-organized documentation for procurement and import/export transactions
- Identify process gaps and implement improvements
- Provide required documentation and insights during internal and external audits
You might be a strong candidate if you have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Procurement, Supply Chain, Logistics, Business Administration, or a related field
- Professional certification (CIPS, CPSP, or equivalent) is an added advantage
- Experience in procurement and/or IMPEX operations is an added advantage
- Exposure to supplier management and international procurement is beneficial
- Experience in renewable energy, FMCG, or distribution environments is an added advantage
Key Skills & Strengths
- Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management
- Effective negotiation and commercial evaluation
- Knowledge of import-linked procurement and cross-border supply chains
- Solid planning, organization, and problem-solving ability
- Attention to detail and ability to operate in dynamic, multi-country environments
- Proficiency in ERP systems (SAP preferred) and MS Excel
What Sun King offers
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture with enthusiastic colleagues driven by the challenge of innovation and making a 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 King 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 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.
