Jobs at Sun King (Formerly Greenlight Planet)

About the role:

• The Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Lead will champion Sun King’s workplace health, safety, and employee wellbeing initiatives, including developing and implementing all aspects of Sun King’s workplace health and safety programs in all Sun King business locations/ markets and developing the company’s H&S management system in line with IFC Performance Standards and good international industry practice. 
• They will conduct health and safety audits; develop new health and safety policies, procedures, and training programs, and identify and implement improvement plans for practices in Sun King’s offices, retail shops, warehouses and distributed field sales operations.
• The Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Lead will play a critical role in minimizing health, safety, and environmental risks to support safe, continuous business operations and working environment for Sun King’s 2,000+ employees, 15,000+ commission sales agents and external contractors in all our markets.

What you would be expected to do

• Develop a health and safety management system including appropriate governance to prevent, monitor, and respond to hazards in the workplace as well as processes for monitoring and reviewing implementation of the H+S management plan. The H+S management system mayneed to be developed and implemented in collaboration with cross-functional business Managers within Sun King.
• Conduct EHS risk assessments to detect potential workplace hazards and other health and safety considerations for Sun King’s employees, contractors, and sales agents, and plan and implement precautionary measures.
• Ensure that Sun King’s workplace environments and business processes comply with relevant occupational health and safety regulations and IFC Performance Standards, including the development and implementation of emergency preparedness and contingency plans.
• Oversee safety inspections and/or audits of Sun King’s offices, warehouses, retail shops, and field team practices and identify corrective actions where necessary.
• Coordinate the investigation of all safety and security incidents and near misses, identify corrective actions and provide recommendations for ways to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.
• Monitor indicators of employee safety performance in line with good international industry practice, including ensuring Sun King’s health and safety incident register, all accidents, and near misses are recorded in a timely manner.
• Prepare dashboards and periodic reports highlighting adherence to Sun King’s health and safety protocol, prevalence of workplace incidents, and emerging trends and concerns for Sun King’s Management team.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional managers across Sun King from teams such as Sales, Human Resources, Training, Operations, Risk, and “pay-as-you-go” Programs to develop and implement new health and safety related policies, processes, training, and other procedures to continuously improve workplace conditions and minimize the prevalence of health and safety incidents.
• Aid in implementing health and safety management best practices in Sun King’s other markets across sub-Saharan Africa.

You might be a strong candidate if you

• A Bachelor's degree or relevant certifications/ accreditation in occupational health and safety management.
• 10+ years in a health safety and environmental role, with at least 3 years in an HSE management role.
• Experience developing and implementing environment, health and safety programs
• Working knowledge of international occupational health standards, including IFC Performance Standards.
• Strong project management, time management, and organizational skills.

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What you would be expected to do

• Modelling different aspects of new interventions or projects, from economic viability to opportunity cost and using models as a basis for prioritisation of interventions. You will use quantitative analysis for the decision making process of what to work on first while referring to the pareto principle as a guide for prioritisation.
• Work with field and HQ teams to draw ideal and simple processes improvements that makes life easier for all concerned while creating additional value for our customers. Your objective is to bring joy to those whose work you have made  easier.
• Leverage tools and technologies to automate, digitise processes and make them efficient/quicker. You default to automation, as long as it’s optimal without necessarily purchasing new software
• Grow buy-in from project stakeholders through nurturing relations and collaboration. You don’t demand support, you are naturally talented in being offered support.
• Draw our new processes/process changes and implementation plan. Clearly documents new processes and draw simple process flow diagrams. You act only with supporting documents, facts and real world examples.
• Drive cross functional engagement, training, and agreement on process changes, ownership, accountability and measurements that are successfully adopted and implemented. You are ready to fail, rethink and try again, if that’s what ‘s required to drive adoption, trying something once is not often not enough.
• Build an internal process audit capability to preserve changes implemented and increase value for the business and our customers while conducting audits. You will practise rigour and critical mindset comparable to any major auditing firm.
• Drive the design, implementation and continuous improvement of new pilots/projects or initiatives that are innovative or transformative for the business. You will be comfortable taking off with a pilot  without knowing exactly where it will land.

You might be a strong candidate if you

• Have 5 or more years professional experience in a fast-paced organisation, preferably in PAYG and Off-grid solar space, in areas related to process management, setting up operations and working closely with field teams with a track record of success, where you developed skills in at least 5 of the following areas:
  • Business Transformation
  • Lean Six Sigma
  • Process Audit
  • Project/Pilot Management
  • Analytics (Business Intelligence or Data Science)
  • Business Process Management/Automation
  • New Product/ New Business development
  • Product Management
  • Design Thinking
• A deeper domain knowledge & understanding of consumer financing, off-grid solar and mass market distribution channels. 
• A strong entrepreneurial spirit and excitement about the opportunity to creatively build effective, non-traditional sales channels in a nascent product category
• Written and oral fluency in English 
• Willingness to spend at least 20% of the time travelling, interacting with field teams, understanding cross functional engagements to understand the ins and outs of a new business
• Comfort working independently and remotely in a lean environment
• Passion for Sun King’s social mission to power access to brighter lives by bringing innovative, trustworthy, renewable energy and to underserved consumers
• A clear alignment to the Sun King Way