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About the Role

Lead the execution, implementation, and stabilization of the global payroll function for the Food Ingredients business as it transitions to a standalone organization. This hands-on transformation and delivery leadership role focuses on Day 1 readiness, implementation execution, operational excellence, and future-state ownership of the steady-state global payroll function, also serving as the US Payroll Lead.

Responsibilities

Lead the execution, implementation, and stabilization of the global payroll function for the Food Ingredients business as it transitions to a standalone organization.
Own delivery against the global payroll project plan, ensuring milestones, risks, dependencies, and readiness activities are actively managed.
Drive Day 1 payroll readiness across 45+ countries and approximately 5,700 employees.
Partner closely with internal stakeholders, external vendors, and cross-functional teams to ensure successful payroll stand-up and transition.
Ensure payroll processes are compliant, scalable, and aligned with business, legal, tax, and regulatory requirements across countries.
Support the transition from implementation to steady-state operations, ensuring strong controls, governance, and service delivery.
Lead vendor coordination and performance oversight, ensuring the defined vendor model is executed effectively.
Establish operational excellence practices, including process documentation, issue resolution, service metrics, and continuous improvement.
Serve as the future-state US Payroll Lead while maintaining global payroll leadership responsibilities.

Requirements

Extensive global payroll leadership experience, ideally within a complex multinational organization.
Strong experience leading payroll implementations, transitions, or transformation initiatives across multiple countries.
Demonstrated ability to execute against large-scale project plans with strong attention to milestones, risk management, and operational readiness.
Deep understanding of payroll compliance, governance, controls, and country-specific payroll requirements.
Experience managing external payroll vendors and working within global vendor service delivery models.
Ability to operate hands-on while also providing strategic leadership and direction.
Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to partner across HR, Finance, Legal, Tax, IT, and business leadership.
Experience supporting business transitions, carve-outs, stand-ups, shared services, or organizational transformation is highly valuable.
Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and execution skills in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Skills

Global payroll expertise
Project execution discipline
Vendor management capability
Stakeholder management
Leadership
Communication
Problem-solving
Execution

Location

Global

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Director

Salary/Compensations

210,224.00 - 300,320.00 USD

About the Company

IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences.
We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
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.