Key Responsibilities
- Identify and generate new merchant leads through direct sales, referrals, networking, partnerships and market outreach.
- Acquire and onboard merchants for UPI, QR, card acceptance, payment gateway, POS and other payment solutions.
- Develop and maintain a solid sales pipeline and consistently achieve monthly and quarterly acquisition targets.
- Understand merchant requirements and recommend suitable payment solutions.
- Conduct merchant meetings, product demonstrations and commercial discussions.
- Build strong relationships with merchants and act as the primary point of contact during onboarding.
- Identify opportunities for cross-selling and upselling additional payment products and services.
- Coordinate with internal teams such as onboarding, operations, risk, compliance, technology and customer support to ensure smooth merchant activation.
- Follow up on leads, proposals and onboarding activities to ensure timely conversion.
- Maintain accurate sales and pipeline information in CRM systems.
- Track market trends,
competitor offerings and merchant requirements and provide feedback to management.
- Develop relationships with local business networks, aggregators, channel partners and banking contacts to generate additional business opportunities.
Preferred Experience & Skills
- 1 - 2 years of experience in payments, FinTech, banking, merchant acquisition, POS, UPI, QR or digital payments.
- Experience in B2B sales, merchant acquisition or field sales preferred.
- Basic understanding of UPI, cards, QR, MDR, payment gateways, POS and merchant settlement.
- Strong lead-generation and prospecting skills.
- Good communication, negotiation and presentation skills.
- Ability to work independently and achieve sales targets.
- Strong follow-up and relationship-management capabilities.
- Comfortable working with CRM and sales reporting tools.
- Willingness to travel for merchant meetings when required.
📌 Sales Executive (Pune)
🏢 Aurus
📍 Pune