Manish Nainani Email & Phone Number

Maharashtra, India

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Mumbai Area, India

The role of Publisher sits at the heart of Packt’s Video publishing operation. A wide-reaching role with significant authority and responsibility, the Publisher ensures that the end-to-end team they work with, comprised of acquisitions, development and production staff.The Publisher is responsible for contracting, developing and producing a stream of video titles according to plan. They need to staff, manage and develop their team as a whole to achieve these goals, driving time to market and product quality. Talent development of their team members is a key part of the role, as is increasing all-round capability for Packt. The Publisher will need to develop their own and their team’s market awareness, working closely with Category Management, to achieve the best commercial outcome for their titles.The primary responsibility for the Publisher is to assume ownership of the team’s key performance metrics and actively lead their team to deliver the required results. Key responsibilities will include:○ Output (Video titles published per month)○ Input (contracts signed per month)○ Time to Market (measured in days from commit-publish and contract-publish)○ Efficiency (Revenue per head) ○ Revenue per title (tracked regular financial reports)

Mumbai Area, India

• Plan the execution of the Content/Category strategy to meet the set targets. • Manage the Budgets in accordance with the Bands & the Commercial Priority set for Titles. • Understand & execute the Category Strategy in collaboration with the Category Manager. • Take full ownership of and manage all aspects of the acquisition process, Timely Author and Reviewer Acquisition.• Streamline and improve all stages of the acquisition process. • Ensure that the AEs progress through the job levels system. • Responsible for coaching, mentoring & guiding Acquisition Editors to acquire the best talent in the industry. • Conduct weekly, monthly, and as regular as necessary performance management meetings with staff, reviewing performance against targets, identifying any required remedial actions, and ensuring the execution of these action plans. • Create & manage performance development plans for team members. • Participate in interviewing AE candidates and recruitment decision.• Manage the contribution of ideas from staff that get incorporated by the Content Management team into the publishing, marketing, and product development strategies.

India

• Contribute to discussions for author acquisition and to maintain book quality • Work with authors on developing book ideas, book outlines, and ultimately book content • Manage relationships with authors and technical reviewers, keep them engaged and ensure author/reviewer reuse and retention • Work in a particular technology category within a team to ensure the success of the category as well contribute to revenue generation • Manage titles with the acquisition manager, content development editors, project coordinators, and technical editors to ensure that titles are published on time and are of good quality• Develop the marketing content for a book that would be customer-focused and would assist the Marketing team in promotion • Produce regular reports that compare the plan targets against actual, and identify problems and actions

Nagpur Area, India

• Joined as a SUPERVISOR in sales and marketing division.• Attain SLA through effective management of the daily operations of the team.• Operational Management: Managing the floor, adherence to schedule.• Coach and Counsel Sales Executives.• Handling a team of 18 agents.• Was promoted as the TEAM LEADER of the Sales and Marketing division in the E commerce department.• Achieved an average conversion rate of 70% and a gross revenue of $20k on a monthly basis.• Contribution in the initial hiring and selection process of the front line executives.• Conducting performance appraisal for the team.

Mumbai Area, India

Working in corporate for months, one thing that I felt missing was good healthy food. Tired of eating canteen’s unhygienic food or ordering from restaurants which used to be oily, spicy and big on one’s pocket, it prompted me to come up with an idea of supplying healthy & delicious home-made style food. I was a part of the startup – “Kitchen Virgins” right from its inception, setup, marketing, budgeting, hiring, expansion and finally a complete selloff in 2014.• Idea research and implementation – Solely responsible for the brainstorming of the idea.• Market research – Identified the primary, secondary and the tertiary competitors in the market.• Organization and management – I was responsible to build a team of employees and manage the company accounts.• Marketing – Created marketing plans and succeeded with a conversion rate of over 20% on a week on week on week basis.• Expansion – On tasting success with one outlet and building a strong team, I worked toward expanding the business with a different approach (homemade food delivery service).• Sell Off – Managed to sell the business after its inception and operations for 18 months.

Engineer'S Degree, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, A

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