Plant Manager, IFF Murcia
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Job Summary
Job Summary
IFF is a global leader in flavors fragrances food ingredients and health & biosciences we deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
Health & Biosciences:Channeling our passion for nature and bioscience into sustainable life-enhancing technologiesthat powerinnovative solutions across healthcare food consumer and industrial markets.
The role is tied to our Alcantarilla Spain location. Be part of a creative agile team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
Where Youll Make a Difference
- Lead and oversee all plant manufacturing activitiesincluding production materials management quality control and manufacturing engineeringto ensure safe reliable and costeffective operations.
- Champion a strong safety culture by driving site engagement regulatory compliance and a longterm commitment to zero incidents.
- Promote and communicate the plants vision values strategies and objectives ensuring alignment across all teams.
- Build a culture of trust employee engagement and capability development while fostering Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at all levels.
- Act as a change leader by challenging existing paradigms and strengthening continuous improvement and problemsolving practices across the site.
- Ensure worldclass performance in Safety Quality Delivery Inventory Cost and People through effective leadership and operational excellence.
- Maintain and improve production capacity drive asset reliability and support maintenance best practices to meet customer service and manufacturing plan commitments.
- Collaborate closely with global network partners business leaders and functional teams to enhance competitiveness and operational performance.
- Set the plants future vision and define critical operating objectives to support longterm business goals.
What Makes You the Right Fit
- University degree in a relevant technical field; an advanced degree is preferred.
- At least 10 years of industrial or chemical process experience and at least 5 years of people leadership experience.
- Proven ability to set priorities influence senior stakeholders and guide teams toward shared objectives.
- Demonstrated leadership collaboration and communication skills with the ability to inspire and engage teams.
- Ability to quickly learn operational technologies and effectively drive or support organizational change.
- Strong track record of leading cultural transformation and building highperforming empowered teams.
- Datadriven actionoriented mindset with a strong sense of urgency and ownership.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Working knowledge of Lean Manufacturing principles.
How You Would Stand Out
- Experience in the food or foodsupplements manufacturing industry.
- Prior leadership experience in a unionized environment.
- Demonstrated success improving facility competitiveness through operational excellence initiatives.
Why Choose Us
- Opportunity to lead a key manufacturing site with high visibility and strategic impact.
- Collaborative inclusive culture centered on employee growth and development.
- Strong commitment to safety sustainability and continuous improvement.
- Competitive compensation and performancedriven incentives.
- Comprehensive benefits and professional development programs.
- Ability to shape the sites longterm vision and influence global manufacturing strategy.
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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Required Experience:
Manager
Key Skills
- Lean Manufacturing
- Six Sigma
- Expense Management
- Continuous Improvement
- Lean Six Sigma
- Management Experience
- Food Processing
- Operations Management
- Production Management
- Budgeting
- Plant Management
- Manufacturing
About Company
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