International Flavors & Fragrances
Produces flavors, fragrances, and pharma solutions.
Packaging Operator 3
About the job
- Ability to read, write, and communicate in English.
- Ability to use basic shop math, algebra, and basic computer skills.
- A legal right to work in the United States.
- Must pass a drug screen and a background check in accordance with IFF standards.
- Perform complex automatic machine operation functions in multiple work locations to support production goals, quality, and current good manufacturing practice standards.
- Provide peer-level technical guidance to Packaging Operators to ensure consistent operation and adherence to procedures.
- Act as a subject-matter resource for troubleshooting equipment and resolving routine process issues.
- Serve as a senior operator resource for questions related to equipment setup, documentation, accuracy, and current good manufacturing practice expectations.
- Provide mentorship to new or less-experienced team members.
- Operate advanced automated packaging equipment across multiple workstations while following detailed work instructions.
- Troubleshoot mechanical and process issues to maintain efficiency and minimize downtime.
- Maintain current good manufacturing practice compliance through accurate documentation, inspections, and annual re-qualification.
- Ensure workplace safety by identifying hazards, maintaining cleanliness, and following personal protective equipment requirements.
- Clean and break down equipment, including machines, tools, and surrounding areas.
- Recognize and respond to out-of-control events by stopping operations and resuming only after resolution.
- Train new operators and participate in task forces focused on process improvement.
- Collaborate with engineering, maintenance, and production leadership.
- Perform other duties assigned.
- Experience with Food and Drug Administration/current good manufacturing practice compliance is preferred.
- A clear focus on high-quality production.
- Ability to work independently and within a close-knit team environment.
- Good communication, interpersonal, and customer service skills.
- A positive demeanor.
- Dependability demonstrated through attendance and job duties.
- Continuous improvement and a willingness to challenge existing processes.
About the company
International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. operates as a vertically integrated supplier of ingredients and formulations across four main areas: Nourish (food and beverage ingredients and solutions), Health & Biosciences (sustainable, bio-based solutions), Scent (fragrances for fine perfumery, personal care, and home care), and Pharma Solutions (functional excipients and active pharmaceutical ingredients for pharma and dietary supplements). Its products go from research and development through manufacturing, enabling customers to formulate foods, cosmetics, and medicines. The company differentiates itself by concentrating resources on higher-margin segments (Scent, Nourish flavors, Health & Biosciences) and by streamlining its portfolio through strategic divestitures to improve margins and return on invested capital. The overarching goal is steady margin expansion and stronger ROIC while delivering integrated, end-to-end solutions to its global customer base.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
1889
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What believers are saying
- IFF cut 2026 guidance to $7.4-$7.6 billion, then raised operating expectations.
- Q2 2026 organic revenue rose 6% and free cash flow margin reached 14.6%.
- CVC's $4.3 billion Food Ingredients deal should deliver $3.8 billion cash proceeds.
What critics are saying
- India's CCI probes IFF for alleged fragrance price collusion since 2024.
- European, British, and Swiss antitrust probes threaten fines and document-disclosure costs.
- Food Ingredients separation creates execution risk through 2027 and exposes stranded-cost slippage.
What makes International Flavors & Fragrances unique
- IFF's 2026 Omni-Bos PHY launch targets dairy feed efficiency in MEA and APAC.
- IFF's creative lab and Olfactive Futures reinforce premium fine-fragrance innovation leadership.
- IFF keeps a 10% stake in Food Ingredients, preserving collaboration after the CVC sale.
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IFF has launched Omni-Bos PHY, a phytase enzyme designed specifically for dairy cattle. The technology unlocks nutrients already present in feed by breaking down phytate, a compound that binds nutrients and reduces their availability to animals. Traditional phytase enzymes have been used in poultry and swine production but were not designed to withstand dairy cattle's digestive conditions. Omni-Bos PHY helps cows utilise more protein, phosphorus, and minerals from existing feed ingredients, reducing reliance on supplemental nutrients. The product will initially launch in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific regions. Global milk production is projected to grow 2% annually over the coming decade, increasing pressure on producers to improve productivity whilst managing feed costs and sustainability targets.
IFF's channel partners extend expertise across the globe. 16 September 2026 in: Home Care IFF's channel partnerships close the gap for home care manufacturers, delivering enzyme innovation to help companies that have historically operated without access to top-tier enzyme science. Through channel partners like IndSpyre Solutions in North America and IMCD across Europe and Latin America, IFF has built a distribution network that circulates expertise, not just products. Quality that travels, speed when it counts. Internal validation testing is the moment of truth for IFF customers bringing a new home care or industrial & institutional formulation to market. IFF's process eliminates surprises during this important stage. Years of methodology alignment, shared training, and mutual investment with channel partners ensures the same tests are run under the same conditions that IFF would run in its own labs, guaranteeing the integrity of the results for each customer. The clock is always running in the home care market, with a typical product facing roughly a one-year development window before the market moves on to something new. IndSpyre and IMCD work proactively to provide their customers with validated solutions and starting formulations benchmarked against leading brand tiers, rather than waiting for challenges to react to. Expertise travels smoothly throughout this network, uncovering trends in isolated supply chains in days, rather than months, offering opportunities to provide solutions sooner. Regional labs, global standards. Behind every validated enzyme-powered home care formulation is rigorous lab work. IFF's channel partners extend this rigor across the globe. IndSpyre's 3,000 sq ft North American home care lab is built to IFF standards. IMCD's newly opened Cologne, Germany facility dedicates 200 sqm to laundry and dish development, reproducing market-relevant methods (e.g., IKW, Ecolabel). And in Brazil, IMCD has become a reference for enzymatic cleaning solutions in a region that was previously without dedicated enzyme support, providing Latin America customers the same quality of technical service as customers anywhere in the world. A complete and trusted path to market. IFF can recommend the right enzyme, but a finished product needs much more, including surfactants, polymers, stabilizers, bio-based options, third-party certifications, and a formulation plan that holds together across the whole ingredient list. IFF's channel partners add complete, tested formulations covering every ingredient on the back of the bottle, with the data to back it up, plus the expertise to make sure sustainability claims actually hold. Channel partnerships rest on mutual expertise and transparent investment. IFF provides enzyme science and application testing, while channel partners contribute formulation knowledge, market access, and broader relationships. Both sides own the results, sustained by regular reporting and shared customer days that keep methods aligned across the global network. Whether it's a boutique brand building its first laundry formula or a regional manufacturer with no lab of its own, IFF's channel partners help close the gap between innovation and impact.
IFF appoints 2 senior leaders to Food Ingredients business. Sep 15, 2026 NEW CENTURY, KAN. - IFF recently announced the appointment of Mark Hotze as chief commercial officer and Thomas Hahlin Ahlinder as senior vice president, Texturizing Solutions, for its Food Ingredients business, strengthening its leadership team as the business prepares to become a standalone company. Both executives bring more than 25 years of industry experience to their new roles. In their respective positions, Hotze will lead the global commercial organization and customer growth strategy, while Ahlinder will oversee the Texturizing Solutions business for food and beverage customers. Hotze most recently held senior leadership roles at Corbion, where he led commercial growth initiatives and expanded strategic customer partnerships. He has also held leadership positions with food industry organizations including the American Society of Baking, Baking Equipment Manufacturers and Allieds (BEMA), the Wheat Foods Council and the North American Meat Institute. Ahlinder was president and chief executive officer of Kerry's Taste & Nutrition business in Europe and has held senior leadership roles with Döhler and DuPont's Nutrition & Health business. He also previously served on the board of FoodDrinkEurope. Get better pet food industry search results. Adding Pet Food Processing tells Google to prioritize Pet Food Processing stories.
India investigates global fragrance giants over price collusion, document shows. Reuters Last Updated: Aug 25, 2026, 06:22:00 PM IST Indian authorities are investigating global fragrance companies for alleged price collusion. This new case follows an ongoing probe into labor anti-poaching deals. The Competition Commission of India is examining cartelization in the fragrance sector. A previously drafted report was recalled due to commercial secret redaction issues. The market for flavors and fragrances in India is projected to grow significantly. NEW DELHI - Global fragrance makers Givaudan, Firmenich and International Flavors & Fragrances face a second antitrust investigation by Indian authorities, according to a regulatory document seen by Reuters. The latest case relates to alleged price collusion since 2024, said a source close to the matter, and follows an ongoing investigation into accusations that the companies struck labour anti-poaching deals. The companies have faced similar investigations over prices charged to their customers in foreign markets. The companies have said they are cooperating with global anti-cartel investigations. You May Like The confidential Competition Commission of India (CCI) document seen by Reuters was dated July 22 and described the new case as one related to "alleged cartelisation in the Indian fragrance industry" by the three companies. The CCI, Swiss-based Givaudan and U.S. rival IFF did not respond to requests for comment on Tuesday. DSM-Firmenich, formed from the 2023 merger of Dutch speciality chemicals maker DSM with Firmenich, also did not respond. Swiss and British antitrust regulators said in 2023 that they were investigating the three companies, and the European Commission has said it is looking into "possible collusion" related to supply of fragrances and their ingredients but has not named any targets. Report recalled over unredacted secrets. Details of price-fixing cases are not made public in India during the course of investigations. In the case related to price collusion, the CCI teams drafted an investigation report with its findings and shared it with the companies in February, the watchdog's internal July 22 document showed. But that report was recalled in July after Givaudan and IFF complained that their commercial secrets were not properly redacted, according to the CCI document. The report will now need to be redrafted by the CCI, with the confidential information properly redacted, potentially slowing the two-year-old case. "From a systemic perspective this will be of concern to CCI," said Gautam Shahi, an Indian antitrust lawyer at Dua Associates. "Loss of relevant commercially sensitive data may harm competition in the market." India's flavours and fragrances market is expected to reach $5 billion by 2033, versus $2.5 billion in 2024, according to Grand View Research.
IFF's dairy culture for semi-hard cheeses wins first place in innovation award. More in the news: IFF Choozit Lift won gold in the Most Innovative Ingredient category at the Fi Innovation Awards 2026. The bioscience solution combines production efficiency, quality, and more efficient use of resources. IFF Choozit Lift is a dairy culture created to reduce the need for added water in the curd washing stage of semi-hard cheese production. This solution won first place in the Most Innovative Ingredient category at the Fi Innovation Awards 2026, held during Food Ingredients South America (FiSA) in São Paulo on August 4th. The award highlights ingredients and products with potential for application and impact in the food and beverage market. IFF also took second place in the same category with Diazyme NoLo, an enzyme for non-alcoholic or low-alcohol beers. "Receiving the first two places in a category focused on ingredient innovation reinforces the potential of bioscience to transform already established processes in the industry," says Deia Vilela, Vice President of IFF Health & Biosciences for Latin America. "These are solutions developed from very specific challenges faced by manufacturers, such as producing more efficiently, reducing the use of natural resources, and at the same time preserving and even improving the quality that consumers expect. This recognition demonstrates how science and industrial application can work together to generate significant gains for the entire chain," he says. Less water in the production of semi-hard cheeses. Choozit Lift is a dairy culture developed to simplify the manufacturing process of semi-hard cheeses. With this technology, it's possible to significantly reduce water usage in the traditional curd washing stage - potentially eliminating it altogether, depending on the type of cheese, formulation, and process. This contributes to decreasing dependence on natural resources, simplifying the production process, and generating associated cost savings without compromising cheese quality. "The food industry is increasingly seeking technologies capable of reconciling productivity, operational efficiency, and reduced resource consumption," says Antonio Salles, lead scientist for dairy applications at IFF in Latin America. "Choozit Lift was born precisely from this perspective: using bioscience to rethink a traditional step in cheese making and deliver measurable gains, especially in water usage," he concludes. Enter your name and email to receive its information.