Job Summary
At IFF, a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences, we deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products. This role is based in Hyderabad, India as a hybrid position and will be part of a creative, solution‑oriented team that drives process excellence across Global Business Services (GBS).
Where You’ll Make a Difference
- You will play a critical role in strengthening process excellence, quality, and analytical maturity across GBS, directly impacting efficiency, cost, quality, and risk outcomes.
- Drive measurable and sustainable improvements across GBS processes through Lean Six Sigma initiatives.
- Build organizational capability by training, coaching, and mentoring teams on Quality and CI tools.
- Enable data‑driven decision‑making by owning analytics, performance dashboards, and reporting.
- Reduce waste and cycle time by accelerating digitization and automation using Microsoft Power Platform.
- Strengthen governance by ensuring robust RCA and CAPA execution to prevent issue recurrence.
What Makes You the Right Fit
- You bring a strong mix of continuous improvement expertise, analytical capability, and digital enablement skills, along with hands‑on experience delivering results in a shared services or operational environment.
- You have 5‑8 years of experience leading Lean Six Sigma projects end‑to‑end with quantifiable business benefits.
- Strong working knowledge of Lean, DMAIC, RCA, CAPA, SPC, and basic statistics.
- Advanced Excel and analytics skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
- Hands‑on experience building low‑code solutions using SharePoint, Power Automate, and Power Apps.
- Solid understanding of project management and change management principles.
- A facilitative, coaching mindset with the ability to influence without authority.
How Would You Stand Out?
- Designing and delivering high‑impact training programs with demonstrated business outcomes using the Kirkpatrick evaluation model.
- Acting as the QPA/BPI “go‑to” expert for analytics, dashboards, and performance measurement.
- Building scalable CI toolkits, playbooks, and micro‑learning to empower first‑line leaders.
- Ensuring strong control plans, benefits tracking, and CAPA effectiveness validation for sustained results.
- Coaching Green Belts, Yellow Belts, and citizen developers to build internal capability.
- Leveraging process mining and automation insights to proactively shape the CI and digitization roadmap.
Why Choose Us?
- Training opportunities
- Learning and development programs
- Health insurance
- Hybrid model (3 days working)
IFF is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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 value the diverse mosaic of ethnicity, national origin, race, age, sex, veteran status, religion, gender identity & expression, sexual orientation, and disability. We strive for an inclusive workplace that allows each of our colleagues to bring their authentic self to work.
Visit IFF.com/careers/workplace-diversity-and-inclusion to learn more.