Brian Johnson

Brian Johnson has focused on building procurement capability locally, regionally, and globally at Merck and has significant experience sourcing from Emerging Markets in Manufacturing, Indirect, and Research categories. He has held procurement roles as Head of Asian Markets Sourcing, Head of Procurement for Greater China, Direct of Research Procurement and has recently been appointed Director of Tech Portfolio Management for outsourcing of all APIs in the Animal Health Business. Brian lived and worked in Asia for 5 years and helped build Merck’s procurement presence in the emerging markets. He obtained his PhD from Princeton University in Chemical Engineering, has Black Belt in Six Sigma, and spent his first 14 years before procurement at Merck in process development taking pharmaceutical processes from bench scale to the factories across the world. He has written articles, patents, and speaks internationally.