Logistics Associate

What you will be expected to do:

• Coordinate dispatch and transportation of products to all designated shops, warehouses, and partners across Tanzania.
• Ensure transporters deliver goods on time and in full (OTIF) while maintaining product safety and integrity.
• Track shipments and maintain close follow-up with third-party transporters to ensure timely deliveries.
• Coordinate dispatch schedules between warehouse teams and transport providers to facilitate efficient last-mile delivery.
• Monitor transportation lead times and escalate delays or operational issues promptly.
• Coordinate route planning and optimization initiatives to improve transportation efficiency and reduce costs.
• Ensure proof of delivery (POD) documentation is properly submitted and filed.

• Oversee monitoring and coordination of company fleet operations to ensure proper utilization and availability.
• Maintain fleet movement records, fuel consumption records, maintenance schedules, and service tracking. 
• Coordinate company owned vehicles’ servicing, repairs, insurance renewals, and compliance documentation. 
• Follow up on fleet incidents, breakdowns, and accident reporting processes.
• Coordinate implementation and monitoring of fleet control measures and cost optimization initiatives.

• Maintain good working relationships with transporters and logistics service providers.
• Monitor transporter performance and track key metrics including delivery timelines, damages, and compliance.  
• Flag non-performance, delays, or service gaps for corrective action.
• Coordinate transporter contract management and documentation reviews in prtnership with Procurement and Finance teams.
• Assist in evaluating transporter performance and recommending improvements.

• Prepare weekly and monthly logistics and fleet performance reports.
• Maintain accurate logistics records, transporter trackers, and shipment status updates. 
• Flag non-performance, delays, or service gaps for corrective action.
• Facilitate logistics data assessment to identify operational gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Ensure proper documentation and filing of logistics transactions and operational records.

• Ensure transportation and fleet operations comply with company policies and safety standards.
• Facilitate audits and operational reviews by providing required logistics documentation and reports.
• Assist in implementing process improvements within logistics and fleet operations.
• Coordinate logistics data assessment to identify operational gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams during high-volume distribution periods and operational projects.

You might be a strong candidate if you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Transportation and Logistics, Statistics, or any Finance Related Field 
• 2-3 years’ working experience in Transportation & Logistics management, Supply Chain Management and/or any related Field
• Demonstrates knowledge in contract management.
• Knowledge and working experience with a robust ERP system preferably S4HANA
• Ability to work comfortably with and maintain large volumes of data in excel. 
• Ability to multi-task and address vying priorities.
• Goal-oriented and organized team player
• Proficient computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel)
• Excellent verbal & written communication skills

What Sun King offers

• 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 Center for Leadership.

About
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.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.