Kaye Sumanga

Kaye Sumanga is the Head of Procurement at Grab, where she is leading the transformation of procurement into a strategic business function that drives enterprise value, commercial outcomes, and organizational scale across its operating countries globally. With a background spanning marketing, agency, and commercial strategy, Kaye brings a distinctive market-facing lens to procurement. She has led enterprise transformation initiatives, with a focus on balancing speed, control, and long-term value creation in complex operating environments. She believes routine commerce should run like infrastructure: invisible, reliable, and easy, and in building supplier relationships, guiding commercial decisions, and investment choices that preserve optionality, strengthen resilience, and create competitive advantage. Her current focus includes AI-native operating models, strategic supplier spend management, and building procurement capabilities for the next generation