Import & Export Associate
Sun King
Kenya
Posted on Mar 26, 2026
Location: Nairobi, Kenya.
About the Role
The role holder assists the day-to-day execution of import and export operations by preparing documentation, coordinating with clearing agents and logistics providers, tracking shipments, and assisting compliance activities.
About the Role
The role holder assists the day-to-day execution of import and export operations by preparing documentation, coordinating with clearing agents and logistics providers, tracking shipments, and assisting compliance activities.
- Department
- Operations
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Kenya
- Workplace type
- Onsite
What you would be expected to do:
Documentation Preparation
- Prepare, verify, and submit import and export documentation, including:
- Commercial invoices
- Packing lists
- Bills of Lading / Airway Bills
- Certificates of Origin
- Import permits and licenses
- Ensure all documentation is accurate, complete, and submitted within required timelines.
Customs Clearance Assistance
- Liaise with clearing agents to facilitate customs processing and clearance.
- Provide required documentation and reply to queries from customs authorities.
- Follow up on inspections, examinations, and additional document requests.
Shipment Tracking & Coordination
- Track shipments from origin to destination and provide regular updates to internal teams.
- Coordinate with freight forwarders and transporters on shipment status.
- Escalate delays, discrepancies, or issues to the Imports & Exportsmanager promptly.
Regulatory & Compliance Assistance
- Assist in maintaining records of licenses, permits, and compliance documentation.
- Assistance preparation of documents for audits, inspections, or regulatory submissions.
- Assist with applications for permits, approvals, or exemptions as required.
Cost & Invoice Processing
- Review freight, clearance, and storage invoices for accuracy.
- Support reconciliation of logistics costs with the finance team.
- Maintain organized and accessible shipment records.
Stakeholder Communication
- Communicate with suppliers, clearing agents, and logistics service providers.
- Provide timely shipment updates to internal stakeholders.
- Any other tasks that may be assigned
You might be a strong candidate if you have:
- Bachelor’s degree from a recognized institution, preferably in Supply Chain Management or a related field.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to multitask and manage priorities.
- High attention to detail and ability to follow instructions accurately.
- Proficient computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook).
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work in a team.
- Self-guided person with the ability to work under minimal supervision and a strong willingness to learn.
What we offer (In addition to a competitive salary)
- An opportunity to grow as a professional in a dynamic, fast-growing, high impact industry;
- The chance to work in an open-minded, collaborative culture surrounded by enthusiastic Greenlighters who are driven by the challenge of continuously innovating and growing a smart, sustainable business with profound impact on the world;
- 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 Greenlight Academy.
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.
