Total Rewards, LATAM

Danisco Brazil Ltda.; Brasil; On-site; BRL 320,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

IFF seeks a seasoned Total Rewards Manager, LATAM to shape compensation, benefits, and retirement strategy across LATAM amid a significant transformation. You will partner with regional and global stakeholders, leveraging market benchmarks and data insights to drive talent decisions and salary governance.

As the primary LATAM contact for regional rewards programs, you will guide pension and long-term savings initiatives, manage vendor relations, and ensure compliant, equitable rewards across

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Total Rewards or broader HR with compensation responsibility.
• Experience supporting multi-country compensation programs across LATAM.
• Experience with pension, retirement or long-term savings programs.
• Experience partnering with HR and business stakeholders on compensation and benefits decisions.
• Fluency in English and Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Deliver compensation planning and salary review across LATAM with data-informed recommendations.
• Ensure governance, job evaluation and compensation practices are aligned across LATAM markets.
• Leverage benchmarking and insights to support talent and workforce investment decisions.
• Serve as the primary LATAM contact for benefits and retirement programs with vendors and stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to streamline rewards processes and improve governance and transparency.

Skills

Total Rewards experience

HR experience

compensation expertise

stakeholder engagement

English & Spanish fluency

Tools

Workday Compensation

Job description

Job Summary Are you an experienced Total Rewards professional ready to shape compensation, benefits and retirement strategy across LATAM during a significant period of business transformation and growth? IFF is a global innovator in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, and health & biosciences, delivering sustainable solutions that enhance everyday products. As the Food Ingredients business transitions to a standalone organization, this role helps maintain attractive, equitable and well-governed rewards programs across LATAM, supporting business continuity, talent retention and informed decision-making. Combining rewards expertise, data-informed insights and effective stakeholder engagement, this role contributes to talent attraction, retention and workforce effectiveness, while serving as the primary LATAM contact for regional compensation, benefits and retirement programs. The Total Rewards Manager, LATAM plays an important role in designing and delivering compensation, benefits and retirement programs across.

Where You'll Make a Difference

Deliver compensation planning, salary review and rewards processes across the region, providing data-informed recommendations and supporting implementation where appropriate. Ensure alignment of rewards governance, job evaluation and compensation practices across LATAM markets. Leverage market benchmarking and workforce insights to support informed talent, retention and workforce investment decisions. Serve as the primary regional contact for the Global Benefits Director on LATAM benefits and retirement programs. Partner with benefits vendors, consultants, trustees and local stakeholders to facilitate effective administration and ongoing program management. Provide benefits and retirement program analysis to inform decision-making, risk management, cost oversight and long-term program sustainability. Identify and implement opportunities to streamline rewards processes, enhance operational efficiency and improve transparency in rewards decision-making. Help ensuring compliance with local requirements across LATAM countries.

What Makes You The Right Fit

• 7+ years of progressive Total Rewards or broader HR experience with significant compensation responsibility.
• Experience supporting multi-country compensation programs across LATAM.
• Experience supporting pension, retirement or long-term savings programs within a multinational environment.
• Experience partnering with HR and business stakeholders on compensation, benefits and workforce-related decisions.
• Knowledge of compensation, benefits and retirement practices across multiple LATAM countries.
• Experience working with external compensation surveys and market benchmarking methodologies.
• Experience working within a multinational organization and professional fluency in English & Spanish.

How Would You Stand Out?

• Experience supporting compensation, benefits and retirement programs within a multinational manufacturing, industrial, supply chain or commercial organization, including engagement with external vendors, consultants and plan providers.
• Experience in market benchmarking, compensation surveys, rewards analytics, workforce insights, job architecture, role leveling and rewards governance.
• Experience navigating organizational transformation, integration, separation or standalone company environments Exposure to incentive programs, workforce planning, Workday Compensation (or similar HR technologies).

Why Choose Us?

Help shape the future of Total Rewards for a business transitioning to a standalone operating model. Partner with stakeholders across LATAM to strengthen reward programs, workforce decisions and the employee value proposition. Contribute to the evolution of compensation, benefits and retirement programs into streamlined, scalable solutions aligned with business priorities. Support business continuity, transformation and value creation within a dynamic and evolving environment. Play an important role in enhancing rewards governance, workforce effectiveness, operational excellence and sustainable growth. Work closely with the VP, Global Total Rewards and the Global Benefits Director, gaining broad exposure to the regional rewards strategy. For your awareness, IFF has announced its intention to sell its Food Ingredients Business to CVC Capital Partners. The sale is presently expected to close in the first half of 2027, pending regulatory approvals and other closing conditions. The Food Ingredient business unit will remain a part of IFF until close and, at such time, it will transition to CVC Capital Partners. In applying for this position, you acknowledge your awareness that the position is a part of the Food Ingredient business unit and has been identified to transition to CVC Capital Partners.

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 At IFF, 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.