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About the Role

Lead the technology separation, stabilization, and transformation of a private equity-backed Food Ingredients company following a major carve-out. Build a standalone IT organization from the ground up, establishing digital, data, and AI capabilities to accelerate growth and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Lead all technology separation activities, ensuring Day 1 operational readiness and business continuity across critical systems, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and support services.
• Establish and execute the target-state technology strategy, operating model, and roadmap for a standalone global enterprise.
• Direct TSA governance and exit activities, managing service levels, costs, risks, and transition milestones.
• Develop a scalable enterprise architecture encompassing ERP, business applications, infrastructure, security, cloud, data, and collaboration platforms.
• Define and implement the organization's long-term digital, data, and AI strategy to accelerate growth, innovation, and operational effectiveness.
• Partner with leaders across Finance, Operations, Commercial, HR, and Supply Chain to integrate technology into key business processes and decision making.
• Build a secure and resilient technology environment, including cybersecurity, disaster recovery, data governance, and risk management capabilities.
• Lead technology investments, vendor partnerships, and IT financial management to ensure disciplined spending and measurable business value.
• Build and develop a high-performing global technology organization capable of supporting future growth, transformation initiatives, and M&A activities.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Significant executive technology leadership experience as a CIO, Divisional CIO, SVP IT, or equivalent role.
• Proven success leading carve-outs, separations, TSA exits, or standalone company creations.
• Deep expertise across enterprise applications, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud technologies, and IT service delivery.
• Strong experience leading large-scale SAP transformation, modernization, or optimization programs.
• Demonstrated track record of aligning technology strategy with business performance, growth, and value creation objectives.
• Experience leading enterprise-wide digital transformation, data, and AI-enabled initiatives.
• Strong financial acumen, including technology budgeting, vendor management, investment prioritization, and ROI analysis.
• Exceptional executive presence with the ability to influence senior leadership teams, boards, investors, and external partners.

Skills

• Technology Separation
• IT Strategy
• Enterprise Architecture
• Digital Transformation
• Data Strategy
• AI Strategy
• Cybersecurity
• Cloud Technologies
• SAP Transformation
• Financial Acumen
• Vendor Management
• Executive Leadership

Location

• United States (hybrid)

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• Executive

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree

Salary/Compensations

• 279,342.00 - 399,060.00 USD

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and executive-level benefits package.

About the Company

• Food Ingredients: Innovating improved nutritional profiles, better taste and texture, and greater cost efficiency to meet the needs of global food and beverage manufacturers.
• 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 make joy through science, creativity and heart. As the global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, health and biosciences, we deliver groundbreaking, sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products – advancing wellness, delighting the senses and enhancing the human experience.

Equal Opportunity

• 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.
• We consider all qualified candidates equally and based on merit, without regard to religion, ethnicity, national origin, race, age, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or disability.