Sukesh Nair

· Lead governance and control strategy for Financial Crime and CSR India, ensuring regulatory alignment and risk mitigation.

· Drive intelligent risk-taking by balancing simplification with robust control design.

· Represent the risk function in leadership forums and enable proactive engagement across business units.

• Led performance governance and business rhythm management for Sustainability.
• Owned KPI reporting frameworks and executive dashboards (Power BI, PowerApps) improving data accuracy and audit readiness.
• Integrated risk, compliance, and sustainability metrics into core procurement operations.
• Designed and implemented budget deviation and financial governance controls enhancing cost discipline.
• Represented function in senior leadership and sustainability forums driving cross-functional alignment.

• Directed end-to-end Procurement Operations across Technology, Infrastructure, and Enterprise categories supporting multi-site global operations.
• Managed £200M+ annual global spend portfolio across Direct and Indirect procurement categories.
• Led global category strategy, demand management, sourcing execution, negotiation, and supplier governance.
• Negotiated £45M multi-year enterprise contract delivering £23M cost reduction and improved commercial safeguards.
• Delivered 52% (£2.5M) cost avoidance via structured commercial transformation and contract redesign.
• Standardised procurement processes improving policy compliance, operational consistency, and cross-regional harmonisation.
• Implemented Supplier Performance Management (SRM) frameworks including scorecards, governance forums, and risk monitoring.
• Led cross-functional procurement team (7–9 FTEs) supporting 150+ stakeholders across engineering, technology, and operations functions.
• Strengthened supply continuity and operational resilience during COVID hardware sourcing programme (9,000+ units).

• Owned global Ariba ERP-integrated procurement platform supporting end-to-end S2P lifecycle.
• Designed and deployed Procurement Operating Model including process harmonisation and global standardisation.
• Migrated multi-country sourcing processes to scalable delivery model enhancing efficiency and governance.
• Optimised contract lifecycle management improving cycle time, transparency, and audit readiness.
• Identified £2.1M savings through invoice audit governance redesign.
• Redesigned reporting architecture mitigating £400M monthly financial exposure risk.
• Drove continuous improvement initiatives aligned to operational excellence principles.
• Integrated risk, compliance, and sustainability metrics into supplier governance framework.