Senior Director, Global Payroll, Food Ingredients

IFF • Hazlet, NJ

1d • $210,224 - $300,320

About The Position

This role leads the execution, implementation, and stabilization of the global payroll function for the Food Ingredients business as it transitions to a standalone organization. With a defined global payroll strategy and vendor model already in place, this role is accountable for delivering against the project plan — ensuring successful stand-up across 45+ countries and approximately 5,700 employees, while establishing a stable, compliant, and scalable payroll operation post go-live. This is a hands-on transformation and delivery leadership role, focused on Day 1 readiness, implementation execution, operational excellence, and future-state ownership of the steady-state global payroll function. The role will also double-hat as US Payroll Lead in the future-state organization. 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. The Director, Global Payroll will play a critical role in supporting the Food Ingredients business as it transitions to a standalone organization. This role will lead the execution, implementation, and stabilization of the global payroll function, ensuring readiness across 45+ countries and approximately 5,700 employees. With a global payroll strategy and vendor model already defined, this leader will be accountable for translating the strategy into execution — driving the project plan, managing key milestones, enabling Day 1 readiness, and building a compliant, scalable, and operationally strong payroll function for the future-state organization. This is a hands-on transformation and delivery leadership role that requires strong global payroll expertise, project execution discipline, vendor management capability, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving business transformation environment. Following implementation, this role will own the steady-state global payroll function and will also serve as the US Payroll Lead.

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.

Nice To Haves

• Experience leading payroll stand-up activities for a new or standalone organization.
• Prior experience supporting payroll operations across the US and multiple international markets.
• Experience in a business separation, divestiture, merger, acquisition, or large-scale transformation environment.

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.

Benefits

• 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.
• We value an inclusive, creative workplace where all individuals can thrive and do their best work.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed