Director – Global Business Services Pune Centre, Smith & Nephew

Sankar is a senior executive with a significant blend of experience in brick and mortar world (12 years) and Services (19+ years) whilst managing diverse business in the manufacturing world and globally acclaimed Shared Service / Start-up / 3rd party Business Process Services centres. Sankar has successfully managed diverse portfolio's across multiple verticals - F&A (18 years of controllership, service delivery, transition & transformation for multiple businesses and verticals), Financial services (US retirement services, Mutual fund operations), HR shared services (Comp & Ben, Retirement services, Core HR processes), P&C Insurance and Healthcare. Significant exposure in setting up Shared service grounds up , developing target operating model, scaling digital operations and creating and aligning operating models to delivery on organizational goals.

Demonstrated capability for navigating complex matrix organization through transformational changes leading to better efficiency and effectiveness. Sankar has managed globally diverse teams and has hands on leadership style with excellent communication skills, relationship management across levels. Sankar is a Commerce graduate with MBA in finance from XIMB.