Site Leader Bomlitz

IFF is a $12B global business producing a multitude of food, pharma, and industrial ingredients used around the world. With over 22,000 employees globally and over 100 locations the company is on a mission to “Do More Good” and bringing science and creativity together.

We hunger for a critical thinker to ensure continuous and efficient production in desired quantity and quality. An individual able to drive safety, productivity, and most important strong leadership for the site.

This role reports to an SVP of Operations.

**This position will be responsible for, but not limited to**:
**Safety, Health, Environmental, Food Quality and Safety and Core Values**:

- Establishes managing processes for advancing and ensuring consistency of Core Values (EHS/PSM, Ethics & Respect for People) across the site.
- Ensures regulatory compliance across all core values.
- Leads identification and prioritization of risk reduction opportunities, establishes clear priorities and supports effective resourcing to drive improvement at the site. (EHS/PSM, Site security)
- Leads relationship with local authorities including safety, health regulatory agency, environmental, customs, police.
- Maintains positive community relations through active participation in local organizations.
- Accountable for leading and managing the site’s Environmental, Occupational Health and Safety, Quality and Food Safety Management Systems.

**Leadership and Management**:

- Provide leadership that gives clear, consistent mission and direction in alignment with business strategy and priorities.
- Establish and communicate clearly defined objectives.
- Identify, measure, track and ensure achievement of critical success factors.
- Lead and drive cultural change and continuous improvement.
- Coordinate production, maintenance, distribution, warehousing, and cost improvement initiatives in accordance with corporate guidelines.
- Lead Industrial Park activities and foster productive relationships with tenants.
- Develop plans for efficient use of materials, machines, and employees.
- Oversee production costs and product quality, and modifies production and inventory control programs to maintain and enhance profitable operation of business.

**Operations Strategy and Planning**:

- Communication of business objectives, priorities and progress across the site
- Communication within IFF off-site and above site
- Develops, implements and renews a 3-5-year site strategic plan, including a clear site vision, which supports the business and corporate strategy.
- Leads site staff team in identifying Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) and aligning action plans with business strategy and anticipating future needs.

**Productivity**:

- Accountable for advancing a culture of continuous improvement (visual management, people, environment, site vision, empowerment, accountability, visual controls, performance dialog, structured problem solving).
- Responsible for site’s infrastructure capabilities, improvement and resource plans via evergreen 5-year plan.
- Utilizes performance tracking metrics to drive execution.

**Community/Industrial Relations**:

- Establish and maintain good working relationships with local community, civic groups, other businesses and manufacturing operations within the industrial community, and political and legislative representatives.

**Morale, Talent Management and Capability Building**:

- Develops people at the site (feedback, coaching, mentoring, delegation, difficult conversations, capability building)
- Encourages employee’s engagement and fosters empowerment and ownership through leader standard work practices.
- Establishes and ensures the effectiveness of two-way communication processes across the site.
- Manages staffing strategy (core/ variable, overtime management and labor planning).
- Provides strategy and ensures effectiveness of the reward and recognition system across the plant.
- Utilizes talent management processes and systems (succession planning, top talent, Individual Performance Plan).

**Job Requirements**:

- Master’s Degree in chemical or/and biochemical engineering or science with experience in either industrial biochemistry, pharma or food additives with operations experience; OR a Bachelor’s Degree in chemical or/and biochemical engineering with 6 - 10 years of operations experience; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 5 years of managerial experience,
- Experience as managing director in German a legislative environment
- Role model and advance Core Values, Corporate Directed behaviors of speed and agility, accountability, transparency, talent development

**The following skill sets are preferred by the site**:

- Manufacturing experience which includes exposure to EHS, Quality, Maintenance and Continuous Improvement systems and tools.
- Union environment experience

IFF is an Equal Opportunity Employer.