Senior After Sales Associate (m/w/d)

Job Description

This role offers a transformative opportunity for a passionate and values-oriented innovator to shape customer experiences for millions in off-grid communities across Mozambique. You will leverage your technical and data interpretation skills to solve customer needs across product replacement, warranty claims, troubleshooting, logistics, and service training. Working across functions is key, and as an exceptional communicator fluent in Portuguese and proficient in English with a customer-centric focus, you will thrive in finding solutions that drive satisfaction across Mozambique's diverse geography.

What you would be expected to do

Customer Service & Warranty Resolution

• Manage a high volume of warranty claims and complaints across various channels, including in-person, phone, and digital platforms, in both Portuguese and English.
• Communicate effectively with customers, shops, EBD partners, and retailers throughout the resolution process, providing timely updates and managing expectations.
• Validate warranty claims according to company policies and procedures, ensuring customer satisfaction and minimising financial impact.
• 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 Mozambique 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 Mozambique 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 standards with commercial contracts, 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.

SAP Data Entry & Transaction Management

• 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 - flagging discrepancies to the system administrator for resolution.

Data Integrity & System Hygiene

• 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.
• Enforce data entry standards across the after-sales team - developing SOPs, checklists, and training guides to ensure consistent and accurate system usage.
• Proactively identify data quality issues that impact reporting accuracy and work with relevant stakeholders to implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Contribute to SAP system upgrades, configuration changes, or new module rollouts by testing transactions, validating data migration, and documenting outcomes.

Spare Parts & Reverse Logistics

• Oversee the management and tracking of spare parts inventory for the Mozambique 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 Mozambique locations are accurately recorded and reconciled.
• Identify slow-moving, excess, or obsolete spare parts inventory and escalate for review and corrective action.

Reporting & Performance Monitoring

• Generate and distribute standard after-sales reports on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis - including warranty ageing reports, open service tickets 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 vs. targets.
• Track and report on after-sales cost elements, including warranty costs, repair labour, spare parts expenditure, and write-offs, assisting Finance with accurate accruals.
• Monitor SLA and TAT compliance for service and repair orders, flagging breaches and trends to management.
• Communication & Relationship Management
• Serve as the single point of contact for all after-sales-related inquiries and issues from customers and internal and external stakeholders in Mozambique.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal teams and external partners to facilitate efficient problem-solving and effective teamwork across the region.
• Provide clear and concise communication through written reports, presentations, and verbal discussions in both Portuguese and English.

You might be a strong candidate if you have

• A degree from a top regional or globally recognized university in Engineering or another relevant discipline. An advanced degree is an added advantage.
• 4+ years of experience in an operational, data evaluation, or inventory management role, preferably within after-sales services, logistics, or the consumer goods sector.
• Fluency in Portuguese (spoken and written) and proficiency in English; this is essential for the Mozambique market.
• Strong data interpretation and presentation skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• High proficiency with ERP systems (SAP experience is a significant advantage) and advanced skills in Microsoft Excel/Google Sheets for data evaluation and reporting.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to distil information and adapt messaging for different audiences.
• A passion for customer service and a genuine motivation to resolve customer issues with speed and customer focus.
• A resourceful approach and the ability to work with minimal guidance, navigate unfamiliar situations, and apply practical problem-solving skills and presence of mind.
• Experience handling spare parts inventory, warranty logistics, or reverse logistics in a field-based environment.
• Openness to travel within Mozambique and, where required, to other Sun King markets in the region.
• Strong efficiency and organisational skills.
• The ability to assess complex situations, identify key considerations, and develop practical approaches in evolving environments.
• Humility, integrity, and professionalism.
• Enthusiasm for the social mission of providing energy to consumers and creating employment opportunities in rural communities, together with alignment to organizational values.

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.

We place great importance on sustaining a diverse, inclusive work environment.

We believe that innovation and understanding comes from diversity on every spectrum. We work to make sure every Sun King team member knows that they belong, knowing that sustaining an inclusive workplace requires conscious effort and is a continuous journey, not an end-state.

Sun King recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes people based on their experience, skills, effort, and results. We explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, religion, caste, national origin, color, gender, marital status, family structure, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status, or disability.