Job Summary
Are you passionate about creating clarity, discipline, and alignment across a complex global transformation portfolio?
Global PMO Manager, Operational Excellence
IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
Within our Taste Business Unit , Operational Excellence brings together Continuous Improvement, Digital Operations, AI and analytics, Automation, Smart manufacturing, Supply Chain Excellence, and other strategic Operations priorities.
As the Global PMO Manager, Operational Excellence , you will own the governance and management system for the global Operational Excellence portfolio and its connection with broader Operations priorities.
This role is a PMO and portfolio-governance role , but goes far beyond. We are looking for a strategic leader who can create structure, enable alignment, anticipate risks and opportunities, connect initiatives across the organization, and accelerate the delivery of business value across a complex global operations portfolio.
You will provide the transparency, prioritization, integrated planning, financial discipline, governance cadence, and decision support required to translate strategy into coordinated execution. Project and workstream leaders remain accountable for project delivery, resource management, technical decisions, and business outcomes. The PMO governs, coordinates, enables alignment, anticipates risks and opportunities, connects initiatives across the organization and create structure.
You will work closely with Operational Excellence, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, Quality, EHS, Procurement, IT, and site leadership teams across a global organization.
Location: The role can be based in Asturias, Spain, Barcelona, Spain, Gebze, Turkey or Skofja Vas, Slovenia , with hybrid arrangements depending on the country of hire.
Where You’ll Make a Difference
Portfolio Strategy, Intake, and Prioritization
Own the end-to-end governance framework for the global Operational Excellence portfolio, including Continuous Improvement, Digital, Automation, Supply Chain, and related Operations transformation priorities.
Maintain a consolidated portfolio of initiatives, programs, and strategic commitments across global functions, regions, and manufacturing sites.
Establish and manage a structured demand-intake and evaluation process , ensuring that proposals have clear sponsorship, strategic alignment, scope, expected value, resource requirements, dependencies, and implementation readiness.
Facilitate fact-based portfolio prioritization using agreed criteria such as strategic contribution, business value, urgency, feasibility, resource capacity, risk, scalability, and operational impact.
Develop prioritization scenarios and recommendations for leadership consideration while maintaining transparent decision records and governance traceability.
Ensure that approved priorities are translated into an integrated, multi-year Operational Excellence roadmap .
Portfolio Planning and Resource Visibility
Consolidate portfolio plans, milestones, deployment schedules, and key decision points into a single integrated roadmap.
Provide visibility of resource requirements, available capacity, capability constraints, and competing demands across functions, regions, sites, and workstreams.
Identify resource conflicts, sequencing constraints, and delivery bottlenecks, and facilitate resolution or escalation through the appropriate governance forums.
Financial and Value
Partner with Finance and initiative owners to establish consistent standards for business cases, investment requirements, savings classification, benefit baselines, forecasts, and value-realization tracking.
Maintain portfolio-level visibility of budgets, forecasts, CAPEX/OPEX requirements, expected benefits, and validated value realization.
Monitor financial and nonfinancial performance against approved baselines and…