Job Summary
IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
Global Operations: Ensuring excellence in execution—from procurement to supply chain and reliability—delivering quality, safety, efficiency and sustainability across the value chain.
The role is based in Manila, Philippines (onsite). Be part of an agile, collaborative, and strategic team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
Where You’ll Make a Difference
- Coordinate and monitor inbound shipments from global suppliers and inter-affiliate locations, ensuring timely delivery of raw materials to support manufacturing operations across the Greater Asia region.
- Manage end-to-end logistics activities, including shipment tracking, transportation planning, and delivery execution to achieve optimal service levels.
- Collaborate closely with suppliers, freight forwarders, carriers, customs brokers, and internal stakeholders to proactively resolve delivery issues and minimize supply chain disruptions.
- Oversee customs clearance and import documentation processes to ensure regulatory compliance and the timely release of inbound shipments.
- Coordinate transportation from ports and terminals to warehouses or manufacturing sites, ensuring seamless movement of goods and inventory availability.
- Partner with Planning, Procurement, Warehouse, and Operations teams to align inbound logistics activities with business and production requirements.
- Review freight invoices, transportation costs, and logistics spend, while identifying opportunities to improve cost efficiency and optimize supply chain performance.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance logistics SOPs, best practices, and operational processes, while driving continuous improvement initiatives across the logistics function.
- Monitor logistics service provider performance through key operational metrics, maintain accurate shipment records in SAP and other logistics systems, and escalate critical issues when necessary.
What Makes You the Right Fit
- Diploma or Bachelor's Degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in logistics, transportation, freight management, import/export operations, or supply chain coordination within a fast-paced manufacturing or FMCG environment.
- Strong understanding of international shipping processes, transportation modes (air, ocean, and land), customs clearance procedures, and Incoterms.
- Proven ability to manage multiple shipments, prioritize competing demands, and resolve operational issues while maintaining a high level of accuracy and service.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and continuous improvement mindset with the ability to identify process efficiencies and drive operational excellence.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience working collaboratively across cross-functional teams, suppliers, freight forwarders, customs brokers, and logistics service providers.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and ERP systems such as SAP, with the ability to maintain accurate logistics data, generate reports, and support data-driven decision-making.
How Would You Stand Out?
- Proficiency in English and local languages.
- Solutions-driven with strong analytical skills and thrives under pressure.
- Experience in chemical industry MNC and SAP
Why Choose Us?
- Multinational working environment
- Training opportunities
- Career progression
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 Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in logistics, transportation, freight management, import/export operations, or supply chain coordination within a manufacturing or FMCG environment.
- Understanding of international shipping processes, air, ocean, and land transportation modes, customs clearance procedures, and Incoterms.
- Ability to manage multiple shipments, prioritize competing demands, and resolve operational issues accurately while maintaining service levels.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and continuous improvement skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across cross-functional teams and external logistics partners.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and ERP systems such as SAP.
- Proficiency in English and local languages.
- Experience in the chemical industry, multinational corporations, and SAP.
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.
