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title: "Manu Pillai - Product Manager - Pricing & Packaging Transformation in Kochi | Tal"
description: "Meet Manu Pillai, Product Manager @ IBM | XIMB (MBA) based in Kochi. AI stack includes claude code, gemini, and openai."
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# Manu Pillai on Tal

## Headline

Product Manager @ IBM \| XIMB \(MBA\)

## About

To keept it short, I'm a management professional passionate about digital transformation, product management, and leveraging Gen AI to build innovative solutions\. I consider myself fortunate to have gained diverse work experiences across product, sales, growth, and account management within the technology and e\-commerce sectors\. I'm currently a Product Manager at IBM Software, working on Pricing & Packaging Transformation\. Before IBM, I was a Product Manager at Capgemini's Group Sales Top Line Centre, contributing to global sales programs aimed at enhancing efficiency and deepening client engagement\. And before that, an exciting startup stint with Swiggy, where I was part of the City Supply team focused on restaurant partnerships and new city launches across the Kerala\-Karnataka region\. When I’m not working, I’m just a nature lover from God's Own Country — a passionate traveler, avid learner, and someone who loves meeting people and having meaningful conversations\. Please feel free to connect — happy to be of help\! 🙂

## Location

Kochi

## AI stack

claude code

gemini

openai

ChatGPT

Figma Make

Microsoft Copilot

## Work experience

Product Manager \- Pricing & Packaging Transformation at IBM, Mar 2026 \- Present · 7 mos, Kochi, Kerala, India, → Driving Software Pricing & Packaging transformation initiatives at IBM

Product Manager \- Group Sales at Capgemini, May 2022 \- Mar 2026 · 3 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, → Helping Capgemini's global sales community to sell better\. As part of Sales Strategy Centre, Group Sales TLC, we ran global sales programs and developed technical products aimed at enhancing sales efficiency and deepening client engagement\.

Sales Strategy Intern at Capgemini, May 2021 \- Jun 2021 · 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, → Selected for MBA internship through Capgemini's prestigious B\-school program, Chrysalis and was offered a Pre\-Placement Offer \(PPO\)

Sales Manager at Swiggy, Oct 2017 \- Aug 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos, Thrissur, Kerala, India, → Joined one of the most exciting startups at the time and worked in the Supply team at Bangalore HQ, where I owned partner operations and developed SOPs and improvement programs to boost partner performance and delivery efficiency\. Worked with a dynamic team focused on launching in Tier 2/ 3 cities\. where I managed 250\+ restaurant clients through acquisitions, cross\-sales, campaigns, and account growth\.

Software Engineer at UST, Mar 2017 \- Sep 2017 · 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, → I joined UST as a campus hire and was deployed on\-site to run Post Silicon BIOS validation for a US based semiconductor giant\. It was an exciting stint working on some cutting\-edge hardware, but then life threw an adventure my way that I just couldn’t pass up\!

## Education

MBA, Business Management, Xavier Institute of Management\(XIM Bhubaneswar\)

B\.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala

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