Job Summary
Are you ready to help transform customer opportunities into innovative Health & Biosciences solutions and guide products from concept to successful commercialization?
IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
Health & Biosciences: Channeling our passion for nature and bioscience into sustainable, life-enhancing technologies that power innovative solutions across healthcare, food, consumer and industrial markets.
We are looking for a Product Specialist to join our Health & Biosciences team. This role can be based in Chatswood, Sydney, Australia (Zenith Centre) - preferable or Madison, Wisconsin, USA, and follows a hybrid working model.
In this role, you will help transform customer opportunities into successful commercial solutions while supporting key business initiatives across Oceania and ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations). You will serve as a central point of coordination across multiple functions, helping guide products through commercialization, change management and lifecycle support.
Be part of a collaborative, customer-focused and detail-oriented team where together we can achieve meaningful results and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
Where You’ll Make a Difference
- Coordinate customer projects across commercialization, product change management, and lifecycle support, helping ensure projects move forward with clear ownership and visibility.
- Support the Oceania and ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) Sub-Regional Industrial Leads and Sales Team by gathering information to assess customer opportunities, feasibility, prioritization, risks and project success factors.
- Partner with Product Development, Contract Manufacturing, Sourcing, Quality and Food Safety, and Regulatory teams to support proposed formulations, samples, packaging proposals, tolling options, and quality or regulatory issue resolution.
- Initiate and oversee workflows related to the creation of new stock keeping units, including project timelines, dependencies, risks and cross-functional deliverables.
- Work with Quality and Food Safety teams to support new raw material approvals, product setup, purchasing specifications and accurate setup in business systems such as SAP, PriceForce and product description platforms.
- Manage artwork changes for finished format stock keeping units, including customer approvals, internal reviews, transition timing and disposition of obsolete packaging.
- Initiate and oversee workflows related to modifications to existing stock keeping units, including defining requested changes, assessing impact, entering modification requests and supporting implementation.
- Manage customer special requests for product information and samples while supporting innovation projects, key business initiatives and performance metric communications.
- Coordinate IFF Probiotic site visits for customers, provide backup support for other Product Specialists, and travel occasionally to trade shows, customer locations and third-party tolling partners.
What Makes You the Right Fit
- Experience in a role related to technology, research and development, project management, business development, marketing, sales, quality assurance or a similar function.
- Demonstrated project management experience, including the ability to manage both short-term and long-term projects with strong follow-through.
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple customer projects simultaneously in a fast-paced and changing environment.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, with the ability to influence others and accomplish goals through partnership.
- Excellent customer interaction, communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Proficiency with SAP or a similar Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, along with strong Microsoft Office skills.
- Ability to identify, assess and manage project risks, dependencies and implementation details.
- Strong attention to detail, especially when managing product information, workflows, approvals, specifications and system setup.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical, marketing, business, science or related field, with ability to travel up to 20%.
How Would You Stand Out?
- Experience with probiotics, dietary supplements, food ingredients, food and beverage, or pediatric nutrition.
- Experience with probiotics manufacturing operations, quality management systems or dietary supplement product workflows.
- Six Sigma, Lean or similar continuous improvement experience or certification.
Why Choose Us?
- Join a global organization where science, creativity and customer collaboration come together to deliver meaningful everyday solutions.
- Enjoy a hybrid work model that supports flexibility, collaboration and work-life balance.
- Work across Oceania, ASEAN and global teams, building valuable international exposure and cross-cultural experience.
- Access opportunities for professional development, continuous learning and long-term career growth within a global organization.
- Contribute to innovative commercialization and lifecycle projects that directly support customer success and business growth.
- Be part of an inclusive workplace where your perspective, experience and unique strengths help drive innovation and make a meaningful impact.
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
