Sales Executive

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 strong 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.