
After-Sales Key Account Executive, EBD (Lagos, Nigeria)
Job Description
After-Sales Key Account Executive, EBD (Lagos, Nigeria)
Department: Operations
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Nigeria
Description
This role presents an exciting opportunity to help shape customer experiences for millions of people living in off-grid communities across Nigeria. The position involves using technical expertise, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills to address customer needs related to product replacement, warranty claims, troubleshooting, logistics, and service training.
What you would be expected to do
- Manage warranty claims and customer complaints across multiple channels.
- Review claims, investigate issues, identify root causes, and ensure resolution within established service levels.
- Deliver updates to customers, partners, retailers, and internal stakeholders throughout the resolution process.
- Review warranty trends and escalate recurring or complex issues to improve product quality and customer experience.
- Ensure delivery of after-sales service requirements and contractual SLAs while working across sales and partner functions.
- Manage SAP records for warranty claims, service orders, repairs, inventory movements, returns, and spare parts transactions.
- Execute service notifications, repair orders, and goods movements in accordance with company procedures.
- Complete month-end activities, reconciliations, and master data updates to ensure data accuracy and operational efficiency.
- Conduct data audits and resolve discrepancies to maintain system accuracy and reliability.
- Develop and implement standard operating procedures (SOPs) and data management practices.
- Review reporting quality and data integrity, identifying opportunities for process improvement.
- Participate in SAP upgrades, testing activities, and system enhancement initiatives.
- Manage spare parts inventory and distribution across service locations.
- Oversee reverse logistics activities for returned, defective, and warranty-replaced products.
- Ensure accurate tracking, reconciliation, and reporting of inventory movements.
- Review inventory performance and recommend actions for excess, obsolete, or slow-moving stock.
- Generate and distribute reports on warranty performance, service requests, inventory usage, and returns.
- Track key performance indicators (KPIs), service level requirements (SLAs), and turnaround times (TATs).
- Produce operational insights and recommendations to improve performance and efficiency.
- Handle after-sales inquiries from customers, partners, and internal teams.
- Build productive working relationships across departments and stakeholder groups to resolve issues and enhance service delivery.
- Deliver information through reports, presentations, and stakeholder discussions.
You might be a strong candidate if you have
- Bachelor's degree or its equivalent in Engineering or another relevant discipline.
- Minimum of 5 years' experience in operations, data management, or inventory management, preferably within after-sales service, logistics, or the consumer goods sector.
- Good data interpretation and presentation skills, with the ability to translate information into clear recommendations and actions.
- Proficiency in ERP systems (SAP experience is an advantage) and advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and/or Google Sheets for reporting and data management.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- A genuine interest in customer service and a focus on addressing customer needs in a timely manner.
- Ability to manage tasks effectively, contribute ideas, and support continuous improvement in processes and outcomes.
- Experience managing spare parts inventory, warranty logistics, or reverse logistics in a field-based environment.
- Willingness to travel within and outside, where required, to other markets within the region.
- Good planning, coordination, and organizational skills.
- Ability to evaluate information, identify opportunities for improvement, and contribute to effective outcomes, including in evolving situations.
- Comfortable working in a dynamic environment and contributing to team goals while managing individual deliverables.
- Demonstrates respect for others, professionalism, openness to feedback, and a positive approach to working with others.
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.