Job Summary
IFF is a global company in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, and health & biosciences, delivering sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
Scent: We create fragrance solutions used in products around the world.
The role is based in Midrand, South Africa and is an on-site position.
You will be part of the Production Operations team, working with production, material flow, warehouse activities, and dispatch processes to ensure safe, efficient, and compliant site operations.
Where You’ll Make a Difference
- Coordinate daily production activities to ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective operations.
- Execute production schedules and adjust priorities to meet operational and customer requirements.
- Monitor production performance and address operational issues when needed.
- Oversee material receipt, storage, staging, issuing, movement, and dispatch activities.
- Ensure production materials are available when required for site operations.
- Maintain inventory accuracy through stock control practices, cycle counts, physical inventory activities, and ERP system transactions.
- Coordinate material flow between warehouse and production areas.
- Ensure warehouse activities, including receiving, storage, handling, and dispatch, are completed according to site requirements.
- Maintain compliance with quality standards, Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), safety procedures, and material traceability requirements.
What Makes You the Right Fit
- Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree in Operations Management, Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Logistics, or a related field.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Previous experience coordinating production, warehouse, inventory, or material handling activities.
- Experience working with frontline operational teams.
- Knowledge of inventory management, stock control, warehouse operations, and material handling processes.
- Experience using SAP or a comparable Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is preferred.
- Good planning, organization, communication, and issue-resolution skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy, quality, and compliance.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and operational systems.
How Would You Stand Out?
- Experience in a start-up, expansion, or greenfield manufacturing environment.
- Familiarity with safety, quality, and continuous improvement programs in manufacturing operations.
- Experience working across Production, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, and Warehouse functions.
Why Choose Us?
- Gain experience in production operations within a global manufacturing organization.
- Work with production, warehouse, inventory, material handling, and dispatch processes.
- Develop knowledge of manufacturing systems, ERP processes, and site operations.
- Work with experienced colleagues across Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, and Maintenance.
- Be part of a workplace focused on safety, quality, operational excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Contribute to reliable site operations and products used by customers around the world.
We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broader range of natural solutions and accelerating our growth strategy. At IFF, we believe that your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We value the diverse mosaic of the ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, or veteran status. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work regardless of their religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, or disability.
Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more
Skills Required
- Diploma or Bachelor's Degree in Operations Management, Supply Chain, Engineering, Manufacturing, Logistics, or related field.
- Minimum 2 years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
- Previous experience coordinating production, warehouse, inventory, or material handling activities.
- Experience working with frontline operational teams.
- Knowledge of inventory management, stock control, warehouse operations, and material handling processes.
- Experience using SAP or a comparable Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and operational systems.
- Good planning, organization, communication, and issue-resolution skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy, quality, and compliance.
- Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), safety procedures, and material traceability requirements.
- Experience in a start-up, expansion, or greenfield manufacturing environment.
- Familiarity with safety, quality, and continuous improvement programs in manufacturing operations.
- Experience working across Production, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Maintenance, and Warehouse functions.
IFF Family of Companies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about IFF Family of Companies and has not been reviewed or approved by IFF Family of Companies.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive in many roles and locations, and compensation is often described as good.
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Parental & Family Support — A global minimum of 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents is in place. This policy is positioned as a notable component of the overall package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Core offerings include paid time off, sick days, holidays, and sabbatical leave. Flexible scheduling options such as compressed workweeks and hybrid/remote arrangements are available where feasible.
IFF Family of Companies Insights
What We Do
Meet IFF: We boldly bring together science and creativity to create what the world needs. An industry leader in food, beverage, health and biosciences, we create essential solutions – from global icons to unexpected innovations and experiences. Equal parts outspoken and analytical, our international collective of thinkers working with customers to bring scents, tastes, experiences, ingredients and solutions for products people crave. With 24,000 employees across 65 countries, more than 110 manufacturing facilities, 100 R&D centers, and 33,000 customers across the world, we’re poised to make a difference on an unprecedented scale. Without our boundary-pushing passion and end-to-end expertise, the future wouldn’t be the same. Visit us at www.iff.com to learn more about how our talented people and new technology are challenging the expected, championing creators and doing more good for people and planet. Explore what sets us apart.
