Senior HR and Admin Associate, Lagos

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria

About the role:

The Senior HR and Admin Associate will manage a wide range of HR administrative, employee relations, office management, and vendor coordination functions. This role ensures efficient operations of office facilities, employee welfare, and administrative services while maintaining cost efficiency and compliance with organizational policies. The role will have two direct reports within the team.

1. Administrative and Vendor Management

• Manage relationships with Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs), travel agencies, accommodation vendors, food vendors, and office maintenance providers.
• Oversee end-to-end healthcare administration including employee registration, enrollment, and reimbursement.
• Coordinate flight (local and international) and hotel bookings for staff, ensuring timely communication and cost optimization.
• Ensure all vendor services are delivered efficiently and in alignment service levels.

2. HR Administration & Employee Relations

• Facilitate smooth onboarding of new hires by ensuring timely provision of work tools (laptop bag, ID card, business cards, welcome kits, etc.).
• Oversee day-to-day office operations, including safety compliance, pantry/kitchen management, and facility maintenance.
• Maintain office inventory, including HR stationery and kitchen supplies.
• Support HR Business Partners with employee engagement initiatives and internal communications.
• Foster positive working relationships across departments and with key stakeholders.

3. Team Leadership

• Manage and mentor direct reports, ensuring alignment with team and organizational goals.
• Conduct regular team meetings to track progress, address challenges, and promote collaboration.

4. Cost Management and Reporting

• Maintain an accurate and up-to-date cost tracker for all administrative expenses.
• Implement cost-saving measures whilst still upholding quality standards
• Work toward reducing departmental costs by a targeted percentage annually.

5. Stakeholder Engagement and Cross - Functional Support

• Build and maintain effective working relationships with all employees, management, and international HR/Admin teams.
• Proactively support peers in other regions by providing best practices, resources, and timely updates to ensure cohesive global operations.
• Champion problem-solving and serve as a reliable liaison between staff and the HR/Admin function.

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in HR administration.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and people skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and comfortable using HRIS or related software.
• Expert data analytical skills is required
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize effectively, and maintain attention to detail.
• Knowledge of local labor laws and health & safety regulations is an advantage.

• 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.

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.