Regional Payroll Lead (Food Ingredients), LATAM

IFF 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 a dynamic and diverse region, we should talk. The Regional Payroll Lead, LATAM will lead the execution, implementation, and stabilization of payroll operations across Latin America 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 LATAM. The Regional Payroll Lead, LATAM 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 Latin America 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. Brazil would be preferred location for this role, but other locations can be considered as well. Where You'll Make a Difference Lead the execution, implementation, and stabilization of payroll operations across the LATAM 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 milestones are actively managed. Drive payroll readiness and successful transition activities across all countries within scope, partnering closely with global payroll leadership, vendors, and regional stakeholders. Oversee end-to-end payroll operations across the region, ensuring payroll is accurate, timely, compliant, and delivered in accordance with country-specific requirements. Lead and develop regional payroll resources, providing direction, coaching, and support to local payroll teams while ensuring consistent service delivery and operational execution. Manage day-to-day relationships with payroll vendors, including ADP and TMF, ensuring service levels, contractual commitments, and country-specific requirements are met. Act as the primary escalation point for regional payroll issues, coordinating resolution across vendors, local teams, and internal stakeholders. Partner closely with HR, Finance, Tax, Legal, Controllership, and business leaders to ensure alignment on payroll inputs, outputs, funding, reporting, and compliance