Shop Branding Quality Assurance (QA) Specialist
Sun King
Quality Assurance
Kenya
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
About the role:
The role holder will be in- charge of ensuring that all Sun King branded retail
outlets consistently meet defined brand standards across signage, visibility, in-store experience, and material quality. This role focuses on auditing, compliance tracking and continuous improvement of retail branding execution across the network.
- Department
- Marketing & Creative
- Employment Type
- Fixed Term - Full Time
- Location
- Kenya
- Workplace type
- Onsite
- Reporting To
- Associate Brand Manager
What you would be expected to do:
Shop Branding Audits & Compliance
- Conduct field audits of Sun King branded shops when vendor branding is on-going and at the end of the branding process to conduct an audit check.
- Verify correct installation and usage of branding materials (signage, wall branding.
- Ensure alignment with brand guidelines (logo usage, colours, messaging, layout).
- Identify & document gaps, inconsistencies or damaged branding elements during the vendor branding process & ensure correction is addressed with the vendor.
- Course correction initiatives are to be documented.
- Implement standardized QA checklists and audit frameworks.
- Capture photographic evidence and detailed reports for each outlet visit with time stamp.
- Score shops based on compliance metrics and defined QA benchmarks.
- Track vendor adherence to branding SLAs and installation standards.
- Flag and document branding defects, poor installations or unauthorized modifications.
- Coordinate with vendors, installers, and internal teams to resolve issues.
- Follow up to ensure corrective actions are completed within timelines.
- Maintain accurate records of shop audit results in digital tools or dashboards.
- Evaluate trends in compliance, regional performance, and recurring issues.
- Provide weekly/monthly reports with actionable insights and recommendations.
- Assist with performance scorecards for vendors and field teams.
- Work closely with branding vendors, installers, and field sales teams.
- Assist onboarding and training of vendors on branding standards.
- Monitor vendor performance and adherence to quality expectations.
- Recommend improvements to branding materials, installation processes and QA frameworks.
- Contribute to cost optimization by identifying inefficiencies or rework drivers.
- Assist with pilot programs for new branding formats or retail concepts.
You would be a strong candidate if you have:
- Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or related field with 2–5 years’ experience in field marketing, retail execution, merchandising, or QA roles.
- Strong experience in retail branding, merchandising, and trade marketing, with a focus on maintaining brand consistency and visual quality standards.
- Proficiency in data collection and reporting tools such as ODK, KoboToolbox, Excel, or mobile audit applications, with basic data evaluation capability.
- High level of accuracy and quality control, with the ability to assess visual standards and ensure compliance across multiple locations.
- Strong problem-solving, field execution, and stakeholder coordination skills, with the ability to work alone and manage multiple sites.
- Highly disciplined, process-guided, comfortable with extensive travel and fieldwork, and able to balance speed, cost, and quality in execution.
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.

