Global Digital Product Director

Where Youll Make a Difference

• Digital Product Strategy & Ownership

  • Own and evolve the global digital product strategy and roadmap for the Taste BU aligned with business priorities and value creation.
  • Act as the ultimate product owner setting priorities and making tradeoffs to maximize impact.
  • Drive a customerfirst mindset focused on user experience adoption and measurable value.
  • Identify opportunities where digital products create competitive advantage not just respond to requests.

  EndtoEnd Product Delivery

  • Own the full product lifecycle from discovery and concept through delivery scaling and continuous improvement.
  • Translate business needs into clear requirements user stories milestones and release plans.
  • Ensure strong validation testing and feedback loops to meet global user and business needs.
  • Drive harmonization and scalability across regions and markets.

  Governance Performance & Adoption

  • Establish and enforce global product governance standards and ways of working.
  • Define and track KPIs for quality adoption delivery effectiveness and future readiness.
  • Use data and insights to identify trends gaps and improvement opportunities.
  • Drive adoption through clear metrics communication training and change management ensuring business value is visible and realized.

  Stakeholder & Team Leadership

  • Serve as the primary link between the Taste BU IT and Digital Product teams.
  • Build strong partnerships with business leaders UX/UI and technology teams to deliver endtoend solutions.
  • Communicate clearly with users leadership and executives; support external positioning through customer interactions and demos.
  • Lead coach and develop a global team of Digital Product Owners and developers fostering collaboration accountability and continuous improvement.

What Makes You the Right Fit

• 10 years of experience in digital product management with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
• Proven track record of managing global digital initiatives preferably with some experience in the food and beverage ingredient or flavor industry.
• Expertise in Jira familiarity with Confluence Figma Miro and Cloud platforms; familiarity with SAP Salesforce and SFDC preferred.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint for reporting and presentations.
• Ability to manage complex global projects and navigate cultural nuances.

How Would You Stand Out

• Strong product leader with the ability to balance strategy execution and stakeholder management in a global environment.
• Comfortable owning the full product lifecycle from early discovery and design through delivery scaling and continuous improvement.
• Datadriven mindset with experience defining and tracking performance adoption and value realization metrics.
• Experience leading global digital product initiatives ideally in food beverage ingredients or manufacturing environments.
• Strong technical understanding of web application technologies including JavaScript frameworks with the ability to translate business needs into digital solutions.
• Track record of proactively identifying digital opportunities that go beyond stated user requests and create competitive advantage.
• Ability to drive adoption through clear communication training and change managementnot just product delivery.

Why Choose Us

• Be part of a global organization where curiosity and discovery drive innovation in taste scent and biotechnology.
• Lead digital initiatives at global scale with direct impact on how IFF creates value for customers and partners.
• Work in the Intelligence & Digital Transformation team within Taste a key driver of IFFs longterm vision and strategy.
• Join a company that values diverse perspectives inclusion and individual growth where your ideas and leadership truly matter.

The following compensation range ($168000.00 - $230000.00 base) is for candidates based in New Jersey and on a variety of factors including but not limited to work experience skills certifications and location. Our benefits package includes medical dental vision 401k vacation holidays paid parental leave (maternity and paternity) and an annual bonus plan among other employee perks.

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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