Senior Associate - EBD After-Sales

What you will be expected to do:

• Manage a high volume of warranty claims and complaints across various channels, including in-person, phone, and digital platforms, in both Amharic and English.
• Communicate effectively with customers, shops, EBD partners, and retailers throughout the resolution process, providing timely updates and setting clear expectations.
• Validate warranty claims according to company policies and procedures, with a focus on customer satisfaction and financial efficiency.
• Ensure timely closure of warranty claims within established SLA timelines and quality standards.
• Conduct thorough investigations to diagnose issues, identify root causes, and establish appropriate solutions for Sun King products in the Ethiopia market.
• Identify and escalate complex or recurring issues to relevant internal teams for further investigation and resolution.
• Track and review warranty trends specific to the Ethiopia market to identify areas for improvement in product quality, service processes, and customer experience.
• Coordinate with the Sales and EBD teams to align after-sales service requirements with commercial terms, ensuring contract SLAs are consistently delivered.
• Monitor partner-level warranty claim performance and provide structured feedback and coaching to improve resolution rates and turnaround times.

• Perform structured, timely SAP entries on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis covering all after-sales transactions, including warranty claims, service orders, repair job cards, goods receipts, goods issues, and returns.
• Create and process Service Notifications, Service Orders (CS module), and Repair Orders in SAP, ensuring accurate classification, coding, and status updates throughout the lifecycle.
• Record and process all field return goods movements in SAP, including material returns (MIGO), transfer postings, and scrapping transactions, maintaining full traceability from receipt to final disposition.
• Process spare parts issues and receipts in SAP, ensuring all stock movements are captured accurately and on time against the correct cost centres, plant codes, and storage locations.
• Execute month-end and period-close entries for the after-sales function, including GR/IR reconciliation, open order clearance, and stock valuation updates.
• Maintain master data accuracy, including material master, service master, customer master, and equipment records, and flag discrepancies to the system administrator for resolution.

• Conduct regular SAP data audits to identify and correct errors, including duplicate entries, incorrect material codes, misclassified service orders, and open transactions that should be closed.
• Monitor and resolve GR/IR mismatches, unconfirmed service orders, and stale open purchase requisitions or orders related to after-sales activities.
• Establish data entry standards across the after-sales team through SOPs, checklists, and training guides to promote consistent and accurate system usage.
• Identify data quality issues that affect reporting accuracy and work with relevant stakeholders to implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Participate in SAP system upgrades, configuration changes, or new module rollouts by testing transactions, validating data migration, and documenting outcomes.

• Oversee the management and tracking of spare parts inventory for the Ethiopia after-sales operation, ensuring adequate stock is maintained at all service points.
• Process and coordinate spare parts requests from service centres, Shops, and field technicians, ensuring timely fulfilment and accurate documentation.
• Manage the reverse logistics flow of defective, returned, and warranty-replaced products, ensuring field return goods are collected, logged, assessed, and directed for repair, refurbishment, or disposal.
• Coordinate with the Logistics and Warehouse teams to ensure spare parts movements across Ethiopia locations are accurately recorded and reconciled.
• Identify slow-moving, excess, or obsolete spare parts inventory and escalate for review and corrective action.

• Generate and distribute standard after-sales reports on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis, including warranty ageing reports, open service ticket summaries, spare parts consumption reports, and return goods status reports.
• Prepare monthly after-sales performance packs for management review, consolidating SAP data with field inputs and commentary on variance versus targets.
• Track and report on after-sales cost elements, including warranty costs, repair labour, spare parts expenditure, and write-offs, enabling Finance to maintain accurate accruals.
• Monitor SLA and TAT compliance for service and repair orders, flagging breaches and emerging trends to management.

• Serve as the primary contact for after-sales-related inquiries and issues from customers, as well as internal and external stakeholders in Ethiopia.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal teams and external partners to facilitate efficient problem-solving and coordination across the region.
• Provide clear and concise communication through written reports, presentations, and verbal discussions in both Amharic and English.

You might be a strong candidate if you have:

• A degree in Engineering or another relevant discipline from a recognized regional or global university. An advanced degree is an advantage.
• At least 4 years of experience in operations, data management, inventory management, after-sales service, logistics, or a related field, preferably within consumer goods or a similar environment.
• Fluency both spoken and written, and proficiency in English. 
• Strong skills in working with data and presenting findings in a clear and practical way.
• Experience with ERP systems, with SAP experience being a significant advantage.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets for reporting and data management.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt information for different audiences.
• A customer-focused approach and genuine interest in resolving customer needs efficiently and thoughtfully.
• A practical approach to problem-solving, with the ability to assess situations, identify options, and select appropriate solutions.
• The ability to manage tasks with limited supervision while keeping relevant teams informed and engaged.
• Experience with spare parts inventory, warranty processes, or reverse logistics in a field-based environment.
• Willingness to travel within Ethiopia and, where required, to other Sun King markets in the region.
• Good organisation and time-management skills.
• An open and adaptable approach to changing priorities and unfamiliar situations.
• Humility, curiosity, and a willingness to learn from others.

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 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.