Job Summary
IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
Health & Biosciences: Channeling our passion for nature and bioscience into sustainable, life-enhancing technologies that power innovative solutions across healthcare, food, consumer, and industrial markets.
This role is based at our Madison, WI, plant. This is an on-site role. You will be part of a collaborative, solution-oriented, and safety-focused manufacturing team where together we can achieve excellence and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
Where You’ll Make a Difference
- Lead and develop the site Quality team, fostering a strong culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement
- Drive compliance with Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S), quality, food safety, regulatory, and permit requirements
- Own and continuously improve the site's Quality and Food Safety Management Systems, including training and internal audits
- Manage quality control and quality assurance activities to ensure finished products and raw materials meet IFF standards
- Oversee product release, non-conformance investigations, customer complaints, and corrective and preventive actions
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal policies across all manufactured products
- Manage site certifications, including ISO 9001, FSSC 22000, Kosher, and Halal, and support external audits
- Partner cross-functionally to resolve quality-related issues
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives to enhance safety, quality, service, and cost efficiency
What Makes You the Right Fit
- Demonstrated leadership, collaboration, and communication skills
- Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of industrial experience OR high school diploma with 10+ years of manufacturing experience and 3+ years of leadership
- Proven ability to lead teams and influence change
- Strong understanding of quality systems and regulatory compliance
- Data-driven and action-oriented mindset
- Ability to manage priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to perform physical requirements safely
How Would You Stand Out?
- Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical, & Medical Device manufacturing experience is strongly preferred, particularly in an ISO9001 food-grade environment
- Experience in liquid manufacturing or processing environments.
- Experience with SAP or other ERP systems
- Familiarity with RCFA, PSM, 5S, and Continuous Improvement methods
Why Choose Us?
- Comprehensive medical and well-being benefits
- Competitive 401(k) with company match
- Paid parental leave and generous PTO
- Career development and tuition reimbursement
- A collaborative work environment that values quality, integrity, and continuous improvement.
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
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.
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