Craig Kennedy is Senior Vice President of Transformation and Supply Chain Management.  Craig has a proven track record of driving change and operations improvement at Merck.  Craig will enable our transformational efforts focused on Fortify Plant to Patient integrating financial planning, MMD’s Digital strategy, accelerating Merck Production System, Merck for Mothers, Enterprise Resiliency Modernization and Enterprise Risk Management positioning Merck for the long term.

Since joining Merck in 1996, Craig’s Merck experience has broadly encompassed Regional operations management, plant management and direct manufacturing operations, change management functions, SAP implementation, Supply Chain and inventory management, capacity management and materials management.

Before coming to Merck, Craig worked for a consulting firm, Professional Systems Development, as a project manager and consultant specializing in computer systems and operations improvement supporting companies located in Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, Western and Eastern Europe and the U.S.

Craig graduated from the University of Sydney, Australia with a degree in computer science and pure mathematics.

Craig has lived and worked in many different countries and cultures around the world, and lives with his family in Princeton, NJ.