Job Description

Looking for a planning role where you can directly influence plant execution, customer delivery, and operational performance?

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

Global Operations ensures 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 St. Louis, MO (hybrid or on‑site) Be part of an accurate, communicative, solution‑oriented, and detail‑focused team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact.

Your potential is our inspiration.

Where You’ll Make a Difference

• Create and maintain daily and weekly detailed production schedules using SAP Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) across the planning horizon
• Manage production schedules in alignment with business strategy, balancing cost, capacity, inventory, production rates, and asset uptime
• Serve as the primary interface between manufacturing, supply chain planning, and customer service to ensure schedule alignment and customer delivery
• Monitor, maintain, and close process orders accurately to support system integrity and reliable planning data
• Identify, communicate, and actively support the resolution of inventory, customer order, quality, and capacity issues as they arise
• Maintain and update SAP master data to support scheduling accuracy and available‑to‑promise (ATP) processes
• Track, analyze, and report key performance indicators, including production‑to‑plan, capacity loading, inventory levels, delivery performance, and slow‑moving or obsolete inventory
• Coordinate finished goods logistics, including delivery scheduling, production documentation, and execution of physical inventory audits with SAP reconciliation

What Makes You the Right Fit

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business Administration, or a related field
• 3+ years of experience in production planning, operations, or supply chain roles within a manufacturing environment
• Solid understanding of supply planning principles and inventory management concepts
• Hands‑on experience using SAP in a planning or manufacturing environment
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
• Effective written and verbal communication skills in a business environment
• Strong analytical and quantitative problem‑solving skills
• Ability to work cross‑functionally in a dynamic, operations‑driven setting

How Would You Stand Out?

• Experience in process manufacturing, food, chemical, or ingredients industries
• Exposure to toll or contract manufacturing networks
• Demonstrated a continuous improvement mindset with a data‑driven approach

Why Choose Us?

• Opportunity to make a direct impact on plant operations and customer delivery
• Collaborative, team‑based manufacturing environment
• Exposure to the global supply chain and planning networks
• Commitment to safety, quality, and operational excellence
• Strong culture of learning, development, and continuous improvement
• Work with purpose—helping create products people experience every day

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