Regional Payroll Lead - Greater Asia, Food Ingredients

Job SummaryIFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products. Food Ingredients: Innovating improved nutritional profiles, better taste and texture, and greater cost efficiency to meet the needs of global food and beverage manufacturers.What's your next big career move?If it involves helping build and stabilize payroll operations across one of the most complex and fast-growing regions in the world, we should talk.The Regional Payroll Lead, Greater Asia will lead the execution, implementation, and stabilization of payroll operations across the Greater Asia region as the Food Ingredients business transitions to a standalone organization. Reporting to the Senior Director, Global Payroll, this role is responsible for translating global payroll strategy into local execution across the region, ensuring payroll readiness, implementation success, operational compliance, and service delivery excellence across multiple countries.Working closely with ADP, TMF, local payroll resources, and key regional stakeholders, this leader will oversee payroll delivery, vendor performance, compliance, controls, and issue resolution while supporting the successful stand-up of a new global payroll organization. The Regional Payroll Lead will lead regional payroll resources and serve as the primary point of accountability for payroll performance and service delivery across Greater Asia.In this role you will play a critical role in supporting the Food Ingredients business as it transitions to a standalone organization. This role will lead payroll implementation, vendor coordination, service delivery, and operational readiness activities across the region. With the global payroll strategy and vendor model already established, this leader will be responsible for ensuring successful regional execution—driving country readiness activities, supporting payroll implementations, managing vendors, overseeing local payroll resources, and ensuring a compliant and stable payroll operation across all countries within the region.This role requires strong multi-country payroll expertise, vendor management capability, stakeholder partnership, and the ability to operate effectively within a fast-moving transformation environment. Following implementation, the role will continue to lead payroll operations across the region while driving service excellence, compliance, and continuous improvement.The preferred location for the role would be Kunshan, China but other locations within China can be considered as well.Where You'll Make a DifferenceLead the execution, implementation, and stabilization of payroll operations across the Greater Asia region as the Food Ingredients business transitions to a standalone organization.Own regional payroll delivery against the global payroll project plan, ensuring country readiness activities, testing, risks, dependencies, and implementation milesto...