Senior Director, Global Payroll, Food Ingredients

Job Summary

The Director, Global Payroll will lead 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.

Where You’ll Make a Difference

• 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.

What Makes You the Right Fit

• 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 environments is highly valued.
• Strong leadership, communication, problem-solving, and execution skills in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

How Would You Stand Out?

• 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.

Important Information Regarding This Position

The Food Ingredients business unit will remain a part of IFF until close and, at such time, it will transition to CVC Capital Partners. 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.