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Be part of a creative, solution-oriented team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.\nWhere You'll Make a Difference\nOwn and execute the H&B inventory optimization roadmap across business units, regions, sites, product families, and inventory categories, balancing working-capital improvement with customer service, growth, supply constraints, and operational continuity.\nTranslate inventory and working-capital objectives into prioritized actions with clear owners, due dates, expected benefits, residual risks, and escalation paths; maintain an integrated view of finished goods, semi-finished goods, raw materials, inventory in transit, blocked stock, excess inventory, and the inventory tail.\nLead governance and execution for slow-moving, obsolete, and excess inventory (SLOB), including root-cause analysis, prevention, disposition, value recovery, action follow-through, and verification that improvements are sustained.\nChallenge and improve inventory segmentation, stocking strategies, safety stocks, inventory policies, and planning parameters using demand, lead-time, supply-variability, service, and risk inputs.\nImprove deployment and reduce inventory imbalances across plants, distribution centers, and regions; 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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. 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