Merchant Experience Lead - GM

6 - 10 years

20 - 27 Lacs

Posted:-1 days ago| Platform: Naukri logo

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Job Description

Key Responsibilities:
1. Merchant Experience Ownership
- Own the merchant lifecycle experience for mid-market EDC merchants from activation to sustained engagement.
- Build frameworks to measure and enhance merchant satisfaction, retention, and activity levels.
- Identify top friction areas in merchant interactions and drive corrective action across teams.

2. Churn Reduction Retention Growth
- Track and analyze EDC churn metrics; design interventions to improve retention rates.
- Create merchant reactivation strategies and coordinate with retention teams to improve win-back ratios.
- Conduct cohort analyses post-retention to assess merchant behavior and incremental GMV contribution.

3. Helpdesk Service Operations Optimization
- Monitor issues and ticket trends coming into the Merchant Helpdesk (MHD).
- Identify root causes of recurring complaints or queries and partner with Product to design flows that reduce helpdesk volume.
- Evaluate tickets parked to Service from MHD, identify bottlenecks, and improve turnaround times.
- Collaborate with Service teams to implement SOP changes and enhance resolution efficiency.

4. Productivity Enhancement
- Audit existing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve them.
- Recommend process and tool enhancements to drive operational excellence.
- Review retention team productivity metrics and ensure alignment with business outcomes (active rate, reactivation GMV, etc.).

5. Data-Driven Insights Collaboration
- Leverage analytics to understand merchant drop-off, churn drivers, and experience pain points.
- Partner with Product, Operations, and Service teams to prioritize initiatives that deliver measurable experience impact.
- Build dashboards and reports to track key KPIs (Active EDC merchants, churn rate, GMV uplift, ticket trends, resolution TAT).

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
1. EDC Active Merchants - Growth in number of active EDC merchants within mid-market channel.
2. Churn Reduction - Decrease in monthly/quarterly churn rate of merchants.
3. Retained Merchant GMV - Increase in GMV contribution from retained merchant cohorts.
4. Helpdesk Efficiency - Reduction in ticket volume per merchant; faster resolution times.
5. Process Improvement - Implementation and measurable impact of improved SOPs and product-led flows.
6. Retention Team Productivity - Improvement in retention conversion rates and post-retention performance.

Qualifications Skills
- 6-10 years of experience in Merchant Experience, Operations, or Business Excellence within Payments / Fintech / BFSI.
- Strong analytical mindset with experience using Excel, SQL, Tableau, or Power BI for insights generation.
- Proven track record in reducing churn, improving satisfaction scores, and scaling operational processes.
- Deep understanding of merchant onboarding, helpdesk operations, and EDC product flows.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills ability to work cross-functionally with Product, Service, and Tech teams.
- Exceptional problem-solving, communication, and process design capabilities.

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