Nikhil Manivannan

Partnerships | Sales | Talking Technology, Sports & Brands | Digitally Transforming Businesses

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

About

I'm someone who loves building meaningful partnerships and helping businesses grow whether that's through sales, collaborations, or smart go to market strategies. Right now, I'm at Livserv.ai, working with companies to simplify how they use AI driven conversational automation. What really gets me excited is creating partnerships that feel like a win for everyone involved. I’ve helped build sales engines from the ground up, closed deals, enabled partner teams, and enjoyed diving into brand collaborations, sponsorships, and exploring the intersection of sports and technology. When I log off, I’m either brainstorming ideas, jotting down half baked startup ideas, or catching a game with friends.

Experience

  • Business Sales Consultant at Livserv.ai
    Dec 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Partnerships Manager at Konnect Insights
    Jan 2023 - Sep 2023 · 9 mos

    • Driving market expansion, revenue growth, and collaboration by forming strategic partnerships, fostering relationships, and successfully onboarding new contributors. • Elevating demand generation via coordinated marketing campaigns and empowered partners through training to enhance their impactful representation. • Aligning channel strategies with market trends and goals while enhancing partner terms, margins, and performance through skillful negotiation and data-driven insights.

  • Channel Partner Associate at yellow.ai
    Feb 2022 - Jan 2023 · 1 yr

    • Building regional partner pipeline, screen and complete onboarding formalities and leveraging internal and external resources, conflict resolution, and follow through with partners • Responsible for building an opportunity pipeline from a portfolio of partners • Providing ongoing sales and technical training to the partners and also being a key channel strategist to regional sales managers within the region • Increasing market penetration Channels and Distributors by enabling building and developing new partners

  • Partner Onboarding Specialist at Kissflow
    Sep 2021 - Jan 2022 · 5 mos

  • Key Account Manager at firebrand labs
    Feb 2021 - Jul 2021 · 6 mos

    • Managing and building strong cliental relationships over a period of time and swiftly learning about the client's business and industry • Articulating ideas and concepts with a deep understanding of social media, digital marketing, trends and insights • Researching, tracking, and understanding competitors' business while providing campaign ideas, estimating costs, and efforts to clients through a single point of contact (SPOC) • Generating and safeguarding revenue streams through sales and marketing initiatives across diverse mandates