Operational Excellence & Portfolio Support Specialist

Operational Excellence And Portfolio Management

Are you ready to drive operational excellence and make an impact across product portfolios and cross-functional teams? IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.

Taste: Crafting unique, technology-enabled flavor designs that define the identity of food and beverage brands, shape trends in flavor building and fuel market success.

Be part of a collaborative, detail-oriented, and solution-focused team where you will support operational excellence and portfolio management activities. In this role, you will help drive efficiency, data accuracy, and cross-functional coordination to enable successful product lifecycle management.

Where You'll Make a Difference

• Coordinate sample requests, including receipt, tracking, storage, and distribution to internal stakeholders
• Support raw material and alternate vendor qualification processes to ensure compliance and continuity
• Facilitate new product introduction (NPI) and ingredient qualification request (IQR) processes across teams
• Maintain and validate portfolio, supplier, and product data to ensure accuracy and consistency
• Support data collection, cleansing, reporting, and dashboard updates for business insights
• Coordinate sensory, analytical, and technical evaluations, ensuring proper documentation and follow-up
• Contribute to portfolio rationalization and continuous improvement initiatives
• Maintain project documentation, action logs, and status tracking across multiple activities
• Collaborate with procurement, quality, technical, innovation, and business teams to support operational goals

What Makes You the Right Fit

• Bachelor's degree in chemistry, food science, data analytics, business, supply chain, or a related field
• Experience coordinating projects or activities across multiple functions
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and data reporting tools
• High attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy and quality
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work in a structured, process-driven environment
• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and generate insights
• Familiarity with systems such as SAP, Power BI, or SharePoint is advantageous

How Would You Stand Out?

• Experience supporting product lifecycle or portfolio management processes
• Proactive and solution-oriented approach to problem-solving
• Strong collaboration skills with a continuous improvement mindset

Why Choose Us?

• Opportunity to work in a global, innovation-driven organization
• Exposure to cross-functional teams and diverse business processes
• Learning and development opportunities to grow your career
• Inclusive and collaborative work environment
• Meaningful role contributing to operational excellence and innovation

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