EMEA Total Rewards Manager – Food Ingredients

IFF; Leiden; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

IFF seeks an experienced Total Rewards Manager to shape compensation, benefits and retirement strategy across Europe, the Middle East and Africa during a transformative period. This role anchors the regional rewards strategy and governance within a multinational, performance-driven environment.

The candidate will partner with HR and Global Rewards teams to ensure market-aligned, scalable programs that attract and retain talent while maintaining governance and cost effectiveness across EMEA.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive Total Rewards or broader HR experience with significant compensation responsibility.
• Experience supporting multi-country compensation programs across EMEA.
• 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 EMEA countries.
• Experience working with external compensation surveys and market benchmarking methodologies.
• Experience working within a multinational organization and professional fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• 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 EMEA 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 EMEA 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 EMEA countries.

Skills

Total Rewards

HR experience

Compensation responsibility

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Workday Compensation

Job description

Job Summary

Are you an experienced Total Rewards professional ready to shape compensation, benefits and retirement strategy across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) 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 EMEA, 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 EMEA contact for regional compensation, benefits and retirement programs.

The Total Rewards Manager, EMEA plays an important role in designing and delivering compensation, benefits and retirement programs across. Partnering with HR, business stakeholders and global rewards teams, you will help ensure our rewards offerings remain market-aligned, consistent and aligned with organizational needs.

Working closely with global rewards stakeholders, the role contributes to a streamlined and future-ready rewards model by strengthening governance, enhancing market alignment, optimizing benefits and retirement programs, and enabling data-informed workforce decisions.

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 EMEA 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 EMEA 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 EMEA 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 EMEA.
• 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 EMEA countries.
• Experience working with external compensation surveys and market benchmarking methodologies.
• Experience working within a multinational organization and professional fluency in English.

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 EMEA 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