Job Summary
Food Ingredients: Innovating improved nutritional profiles, better taste and texture, and greater cost efficiency to meet the needs of global food and beverage manufacturers.
The role is preferably based in the United States, with consideration for candidates based in Brazil or Europe. Be part of a strategic, collaborative, and results-oriented team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
- Lead the end-to-end manufacturing network for Protein Solutions and Taura, driving safe, reliable, cost-effective, and customer-focused operations across a multi-site footprint.
- Develop and execute the manufacturing strategy in support of business growth, customer requirements, and long-term competitiveness.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives across the network to improve safety, quality, service, cost, productivity, and asset performance.
- Optimize the manufacturing footprint, capacity, and asset utilization, including capital planning, expansion, rationalization, and productivity improvement.
- Own the manufacturing budget and capital plan, delivering productivity, cost discipline, and strong return on investment.
- Ensure all operations meet company, regulatory, environmental, food safety, and quality standards across all sites.
- Lead and develop plant managers and site leadership teams, strengthening capability, accountability, engagement, and succession across the network.
- Accelerate adoption of manufacturing technologies, automation, and digital tools that improve visibility, control, reliability, and performance.
- Partner closely with Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Finance, Research and Development (R&D), and commercial teams to align manufacturing capabilities with business priorities and customer needs.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or a related field.
- 15+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience, including significant responsibility for plant operations, quality, engineering, Environment, Health and Safety (EHS), and continuous improvement.
- Proven experience leading complex, multi-site manufacturing operations in a matrixed global organization.
- Strong track record of delivering operational excellence, productivity, cost improvement, and cultural transformation in complex industrial environments.
- Experience in food ingredients, chemicals, or other regulated process manufacturing environments.
- Strong financial acumen, including experience managing operating budgets, capital plans, productivity pipelines, and performance against financial targets.
- Demonstrated ability to develop leaders, build high-performing teams, and drive organizational capability and succession planning.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to align multiple stakeholders and create buy-in around manufacturing strategies.
- Ability to travel regularly to manufacturing sites domestically and internationally, as needed.
- Advanced degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, or a related field.
- Experience managing large-scale capital projects, network optimization, and manufacturing footprint decisions.
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale transformation, change management, and digital manufacturing initiatives.
- Opportunity to lead a nine-plant manufacturing network across two business segments.
- High-impact scope to shape operations strategy in support of growth, customer needs, and financial objectives.
- Broad leadership exposure through partnership with Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Finance, business leadership, and commercial teams.
- Opportunity to drive network performance, productivity, capacity planning, and continuous improvement at scale.
- Strong platform to influence digital adoption, automation, and cultural transformation across multiple sites.
- Preferred location flexibility in the United States, with consideration for Brazil or Europe.
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.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, or related field.
- 15+ years of progressive manufacturing leadership with responsibility for plant operations, quality, engineering, EHS, and continuous improvement.
- Proven experience leading complex, multi-site manufacturing operations in a matrixed global organization.
- Experience in food ingredients, chemicals, or other regulated process manufacturing environments.
- Strong financial acumen, including managing operating budgets, capital plans, productivity pipelines, and performance against financial targets.
- Demonstrated ability to develop leaders, build high-performing teams, and drive succession planning.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills to align multiple stakeholders and create buy-in.
- Ability to travel regularly to manufacturing sites domestically and internationally as needed.
- Advanced degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, or related field.
- Experience managing large-scale capital projects, network optimization, and manufacturing footprint decisions.
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale transformation, change management, and digital manufacturing 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.
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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.
