Food Service Sales Lead – HORECA at Axureone · Mumbai, Bengaluru (Bangalore) · 4 - 11 years · ₹7L - ₹9L / yr · Raised funding · Posted 13 Jan 2026

We are seeking a dynamic and results-driven Food Service Sales Lead – HORECA to grow our presence across the hotel, restaurant, café, and catering segments. This role focuses on driving revenue growth, building long-term partnerships, and expanding our footprint within the hospitality and food service ecosystem. The ideal candidate brings strong industry relationships, strategic selling expertise, and a proven ability to deliver against ambitious sales targets.
Key Responsibilities :
- Identify, onboard, and develop new HORECA and food service customers, including hotels, restaurants, cafés, and institutional caterers.
- Grow volume, revenue, and profitability across assigned food service accounts through data-driven and consultative selling approaches.
- Lead new account acquisition initiatives to strengthen market penetration.
- Execute local and national trade marketing programs to enhance brand visibility and performance.
- Assess market opportunities and translate them into sustainable sales growth and new business wins.
- Manage pricing, contracts, and commercial terms to ensure alignment with quality, cost, and service benchmarks.
- Review, approve, and optimize promotional and trade spend programs to improve ROI and brand consumption.
- Design and implement customized sales and marketing plans for key HORECA accounts.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Hospitality Management, Food Technology, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 4 years of Sales & Marketing experience in food service, specifically handling HORECA accounts.
- Established network and strong relationships within the food service and hospitality industry.
- Ability to engage and negotiate with stakeholders across levels—from chefs and catering managers to procurement and buyers.
- Consistent track record of meeting or exceeding sales and revenue targets.
- Excellent verbal communication and relationship-management skills.
- Demonstrated experience in market development and driving measurable business growth.

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- Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills.
- Thorough knowledge of the products and services and about the markets.
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Experience: 1–4 Years
Compensation: Performance-based + Incentives
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Stairio builds scalable digital infrastructure for hospitality and service-driven businesses.
We do not just build websites — we build complete booking systems, hotel management platforms, and digital revenue infrastructure that help hotels reduce OTA dependency, increase direct bookings, and own their brand.
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You are responsible for:
- Identifying and engaging potential clients
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- Finalizing project scope and features
- Collecting complete business inputs
- Ensuring clean handover before development begins
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Primary Focus (High Priority)
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- Cafes and restaurants
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Step 1: Connect and Present
You will receive structured leads,
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Step 2: Deal Closure (Full Ownership Required)
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Once all inputs are finalized:
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- Strong communication and negotiation skills
- Ability to sell value, not just price
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- Structured and disciplined documentation approach
- High ownership mindset
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- Have existing hospitality contacts
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- High-growth startup environment
- Direct impact on revenue and business expansion
- Performance-based earning potential
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Professional Conduct
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- Client diversion or misuse of information is prohibited
- Ethical and structured sales practices are mandatory
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We're revolutionizing the way buildings are managed, shifting them away from traditional facilities management to a smarter, data-driven approach. IQnext is an integrated, centralized platform that is disrupting buildings and real estate infrastructure with its new-age cloud-based solution, delivering long-term sustainability and operational efficiency that is scalable across portfolios.
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To achieve our ambitious goal, we are looking for a Territory Sales Manager who is proactive in nature and works in a pre-sales and sales role, and generates leads on his/her own using different methods (B2B portals, emails, cold calls) from the enterprise customer segment.
Designation - Enterprise Sales Manager
Experience - 3- 5 Years
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Travel - Local, Intercity
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In this role, you will be responsible for driving new sales and the growth of IQnext in the enterprise segment. The person in this role will pioneer some of IQnexts biggest deals by landing new logos and formalizing enterprise-wide relationships with companies. You will gain knowledge and experience of the new age industry of SaaS and cloud .
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As a Business Developer, you will work with sales and leadership teams, to unlock new relationships at large organizations and evolve IQnexts B2B revenue engine. Youll also have support from our growing Sales, Product, Marketing, Customer Success, and Engineering teams to maximize the value and success of your efforts. Over the next few years, IQnext seeks to establish and grow a team. As a pioneering member of that team, youll have opportunities to manage future Sales executives, if that career path interests you.
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Good to have
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