Job Summary
IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
Our Nourish business brings together industry-leading expertise in food ingredients, flavors, and innovation to help customers create differentiated products that delight consumers around the world. Through science, creativity, and deep market insight, we deliver solutions that shape the future of food and beverage.
The role is based in Cairo, Egypt (onsite role). Be part of a collaborative, dynamic, and results-driven team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
Where You'll Make a Difference
- Ensure reliable raw material availability while balancing service (OTP), inventory, and working capital objectives.
- Support manufacturing by planning material supply, managing replenishment activities, and monitoring inbound deliveries.
- Proactively identify supply risks before they impact manufacturing operations or customer service and develop effective mitigation plans.
- Own supply issues from identification through resolution, including risk assessment, communication, escalation, and corrective actions.
- Partner with Finished Goods Planning, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics, Customer Service, and Commercial teams to support uninterrupted operations.
- Optimize inventory levels while minimizing excess, slow-moving, obsolete inventory, and write-offs.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives and cross-functional projects that enhance supply chain performance.
- Maintain planning accuracy and leverage data analysis to support decision-making and problem solving.
- Prioritize competing business needs and focus efforts on the highest-impact opportunities and risks.
- Influence business decisions through data insights, business judgment, and stakeholder engagement.
What Makes You the Right Fit
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business Administration, Logistics, Operations Management, or a related field.
- Ability to effectively communicate in verbal and written English.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in Materials Planning, Production Planning, Inventory Management, Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing Operations, Logistics, or Supply Chain Analytics.
- Experience in chemical, food, pharmaceutical, consumer goods, or similar manufacturing environments is preferred.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
- Experience working with ERP/MRP systems; SAP experience is highly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across multiple functions and organizational levels.
- Ability to identify risks, develop mitigation plans, and drive actions to completion.
- Strong organizational skills with a disciplined approach to follow-through and accountability.
How Would You Stand Out?
- Experience with SAP or other ERP/MRP planning systems.
- Inventory optimization expertise, including management of excess, slow-moving, and obsolete inventory.
- Experience participating in cross-functional supply chain improvement projects.
- Knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, Continuous Improvement, or Operational Excellence methodologies.
- Experience working within global or multicultural organizations.
Why Choose Us?
- Join a global leader shaping the future of food, taste, scent, and nutrition.
- Work in a collaborative environment that values innovation and continuous improvement.
- Build your career through development opportunities and cross-functional exposure.
- Contribute to meaningful projects with visible business impact.
- Be part of a diverse and inclusive culture where every voice matters.
- Work alongside talented professionals dedicated to excellence and customer success.
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.
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 degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations Management, or related field
- Minimum 4 years of experience in planning or operational buying
- Strong knowledge of MRP systems (e.g., SAP MRP) and supply chain processes
- Proven ability to work in an international, matrix environment with multiple stakeholders
- Fluent in English (written and spoken)
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities
- Customer-focused mindset with experience understanding end-to-end requirements
- Proactive, dynamic, and solution-oriented attitude
- Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and ability to prioritize under pressure
- Experience driving continuous improvement and operational excellence initiatives
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.
