Regional Manager Sampling Operation & Innovation NA & LATAM

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Taubaté, São Paulo, BRA
In-Office
Senior level
Biotech • Manufacturing
The Role
Lead end-to-end sampling value stream across North America and LATAM, standardizing processes, driving automation, implementing SAP-enabled workflows, coordinating cross-functional teams, establishing KPIs and governance, and improving sampling speed, reliability, and customer experience.
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Job Summary

The Regional Manager Sampling Operations & Innovation leads the execution and embedding of IFF Taste’s Sampling Strategy across NA & LATAM. This role optimizes and progressively automates the end-to-end sampling value stream—from commercial request initiation and new product creation through sampling planning, production, warehousing, and fulfillment—to deliver faster, more reliable service and best-in-class customer experience.

We are a global leader in taste, scent, and nutrition, offering our customers a broad range of science-driven, sustainable solutions. At IFF, we believe your uniqueness unleashes our potential. We foster an inclusive workplace where every colleague can bring their authentic self to work.

IFF Taste partners with customers to create differentiated food and beverage experiences through science, creativity, and operational excellence—bringing ideas to life from concept to commercialization.

You will be part of a dynamic, cross-functional regional network connecting Commercial, Creation (Research, Development & Applications), and Operations teams. Our team is collaborative, performance-driven, and focused on delivering consistent, scalable, and customer-centric solutions.

Where You’ll Make a Difference

  • Lead the end-to-end sampling value stream across NA & LATAM—from request initiation to final fulfillment

  • Drive deployment of standardized global sampling processes, reducing manual effort and cycle time

  • Orchestrate cross-functional execution across Commercial, Creation (RC&D), and Operations

  • Accelerate adoption of automation across production, warehousing, and distribution activities

  • Enable implementation of SAP-enabled sampling processes and digital tools (e.g., workflow and analytics systems)

  • Establish regional performance visibility through KPIs, data insights, and governance routines

  • Strengthen customer experience by improving speed, reliability, and right-first-time delivery

What Makes You the Right Fit

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Life Sciences, or related field

  • 6+ years of experience in operations transformation, process excellence, or automation

  • Proven experience managing end-to-end operational value streams (request-to-fulfillment)

  • Experience implementing global processes and driving adoption at site or regional level

  • Exposure to digital solutions, automation tools, and system-driven workflows

  • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across functions and regions

  • Experience working with SAP-enabled processes and data-driven operations

  • Ability to translate business needs into scalable operational solutions

How Would You Stand Out

  • Experience in sampling, lab operations, or fulfillment environments

  • Demonstrated success delivering automation or digital transformation initiatives

  • Strong leadership presence with experience managing teams in a matrix organization

Why Choose Us

  • Be part of a global organization shaping the future of taste, scent, and nutrition

  • Work in a highly collaborative, cross-regional environment

  • Drive impactful transformation projects with visible business outcomes

  • Access to learning, development, and career growth opportunities

  • Inclusive culture that values diversity and innovation

  • Flexible work practices that support work-life balance

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

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Life Sciences, or related field
  • 6+ years of experience in operations transformation, process excellence, or automation
  • Proven experience managing end-to-end operational value streams (request-to-fulfillment)
  • Experience implementing global processes and driving adoption at site or regional level
  • Exposure to digital solutions, automation tools, and system-driven workflows
  • Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across functions and regions
  • Experience working with SAP-enabled processes and data-driven operations
  • Ability to translate business needs into scalable operational solutions
  • Experience in sampling, lab operations, or fulfillment environments
  • Demonstrated success delivering automation or digital transformation initiatives
  • Leadership presence with experience managing teams in a matrix organization

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.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Pay is considered competitive in many roles and locations, and compensation is often described as good.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
13,014 Employees

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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