The role will entail developing in-depth understanding of Key Accounts of different industry verticals - F&B, Hospitality, FMCG, FMCD, Healthcare & Wellness, Lifestyle. The role also requires an efficient leader who monitors the operations and hence ensures efficiency in execution at any point in time.

Reporting Matrix: The role will report to a Regional Manager and will have 5-7 Cluster managers as Direct reports along with 40-50 Key Account Executives as Indirect reports.

Responsibilities:

- Merchant Acquisition: Zonal Manager is expected to set up and lead a team of Cluster Manager to achieve merchant acquisition targets. Since payments are agnostic to the category of business, the spectrum of merchants that can be onboarded is vast. The Zonal manager must use their business acumen and understanding of Indian retail ecosystem to track progress against plan by implementing strong processes & review mechanisms using well - defined metrics and ask the CMs to cascade the processes to the team.

- Account Management: Onboarding merchants on the platform is the first stage of a long-term relationship between the Company and the account. The strength of these relationships, combined with our technology based solutions, will eventually determine the success of the Company in each market in terms of market share and revenue. The Zonal Manager enables the team to provide effective deployments along with training and servicing of the merchants. They should critically view and ensure the successful implementation of monetization avenues in the market.

- Map Competition: To be able to take timely action, it is imperative that we monitor the market and be informed of competition's initiatives. The incumbent should have an holistic approach in monitoring competition activity in key accounts and ensure appropriate response strategies are formulated and implemented. With their own observations coupled with inputs from the team, Cluster managers must share best practices internally for growth of the Comapnay

- People Management: The incumbent should lead and promote the initiatives coming from the ground and share the best practices with the leadership team. It is important to stay connected with all the stakeholders including marketing and customer experience for having continual improvement on the processes.

Requirements:

- MBA from Tier 1/ Tier 2 campus (Batch 2014 or 2015) with excellent academic record.

- Proven working experience of 4-5 years in sales/business development with at-least 1 year in modern trade / Key account management

Should have handled team and processes like goal setting, performance management

- Exposure to the start up environment is an added advantage

- Problem solving abilities with strong bias for impact

- Drive for result, able to demonstrate/quantify success relative established targets and metrics

- Budget for the role is max 25 Lacs

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