The Senior Marketing Associate will drive marketing initiatives for PAYG phones, focusing on brand visibility, demand generation, and customer engagement through marketing campaigns and tools.
Job Location: Lusaka, Zambia.
About the Job
The Senior Marketing Associate – Smartphones will oversee marketing initiatives for the company's smartphone portfolio. The role focuses on increasing brand visibility, demand generation, and customer engagement while equipping sales channels with marketing tools, campaigns, and content. This role ensures the smartphone portfolio is effectively positioned in the market and resonates with target customers.
About the Job
The Senior Marketing Associate – Smartphones will oversee marketing initiatives for the company's smartphone portfolio. The role focuses on increasing brand visibility, demand generation, and customer engagement while equipping sales channels with marketing tools, campaigns, and content. This role ensures the smartphone portfolio is effectively positioned in the market and resonates with target customers.
What you will be expected to do:
- Work closely with the Global PAYG Marketing Manager to translate the strategic PAYG plan into country-level strategic and execution plans.
- Develop and execute integrated marketing campaigns to increase awareness and sales of PayGo phones.
- Create compelling product messaging, digital content, promotional materials, and sales tools for field teams.
- Coordinate product launches, internal and customer-facing promotions, and market activations.
- Monitor market trends, customer behaviour, and activities from industry participants to inform marketing strategies.
- Work closely with Sales, Product, Customer Care, Programs Optimization, and external partners to ensure marketing initiatives are aligned and effective.
- Assess campaign performance and provide insights for continuous improvement.
You might be a strong candidate if you have:
- A Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or a related field.
- 5–8 years of experience in marketing, product marketing, or consumer electronics/telecom marketing.
- Experience in mobile phone retail marketing.
- Strong knowledge of customer-focused marketing and brand building.
- Proficiency in campaign management tools, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Experience with PayGo business models or consumer electronics is an advantage.
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.
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.
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.
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