Zonal Merchant Lead

Airtel; Uttar Pradesh; On-site; INR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Airtel is seeking a Merchant Acquisition Manager for Uttar Pradesh to lead merchant onboarding and activation across the circle. You will drive growth by engaging small and large format merchants and ensuring brand visibility across the market.

In this role you will collaborate with marketing, MIS, and sales teams to optimize merchant performance, mentor junior staff, and implement strategies that deliver measurable throughput and customer reach.

Qualifications

• Experience in merchant acquisition and activation within a telecom circle.
• Apt knowledge of geography to support deployment of resources.
• Proven ability to drive merchant visibility and growth.
• Experience training and mentoring team leads.

Responsibilities

• Drive merchant acquisition across the circle.
• Activate merchants including small and large format retail.
• Ensure market visibility for the brand.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams for growth.
• Plan and execute merchant strategies to meet plans.
• Mentor and develop team leads and executives.
• Coordinate with circle marketing, MIS, and sales teams.
• Provide updates to management on competition and market strategies.

Skills

Merchant acquisition

Activation

Team leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Market visibility

Customer relationship management

Job description

4 - 7 Years

Employee

Job Description

2)Merchant acquisition in the circle

3)Apt knowledge of the geography to support deployment of resources for merchant business.

4)Merchant activation (Small Merchants & Large format retail)

5)Ensure Visibility in the market place for the brand

6)Supporting cross functional teams to ensure merchant business growth

7)Merchant Servicing & relationship Management

8)Planning & execution of strategies related to merchant for the circles to ensure deliverables related to merchant acquisition, Activation, unique customers & throughput are met as per the plan

9)Training, developing, mentoring team of team leads & Merchant executives

10)Coordination with key functions at circle to ensure all possible support for the business e.g marketing, MIS, cross functional sales teams etc.

11)Keeping the management updated about the competition and developing strategies for winning in the market

Job Snapshot

Updated Date

14-10-2026

Job ID

Job_6923

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