Plant Planner

Plant Planner International Flavors and Fragrances United States, Missouri, St. Louis May 19, 2026 Job Summary Looking for a planning role where you can directly influence plant execution, customer delivery, and operational performance? IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients, and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products. Global Operations ensures excellence in execution-from procurement to supply chain and reliability-delivering quality, safety, efficiency, and sustainability across the value chain. The role is based in St. Louis, MO (hybrid or onsite). Be part of an accurate, communicative, solutionoriented, and detailfocused team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration. Where You'll Make a Difference Create and maintain daily and weekly detailed production schedules using SAP Production Planning and Detailed Scheduling (PP/DS) across the planning horizon
Manage production schedules in alignment with business strategy, balancing cost, capacity, inventory, production rates, and asset uptime
Serve as the primary interface between manufacturing, supply chain planning, and customer service to ensure schedule alignment and customer delivery
Monitor, maintain, and close process orders accurately to support system integrity and reliable planning data
Identify, communicate, and actively support the resolution of inventory, customer order, quality, and capacity issues as they arise
Maintain and update SAP master data to support scheduling accuracy and availabletopromise (ATP) processes
Track, analyze, and report key performance indicators, including productiontoplan, capacity loading, inventory levels, delivery performance, and slowmoving or obsolete inventory
Coordinate finished goods logistics, including delivery scheduling, production documentation, and execution of physical inventory audits with SAP reconciliation
What Makes You the Right Fit Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Business Administration, or a related field
3+ years of experience in production planning, operations, or supply chain roles within a manufacturing environment
Solid understanding of supply planning principles and inventory management concepts
Handson experience using SAP in a planning or manufacturing environment
Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel
Effective written and verbal communication skills in a business environment
Strong analytical and quantitative problemsolving skills
Ability to work crossfunctionally in a dynamic, operationsdriven setting
How Would You Stand Out? Experience in process manufacturing, food, chemical, or ingredients industries
Exposure to toll or contract manufacturing networks
Demonstrated a continuous improvement mindset with a datadriven approach
Why Choose Us?
Opportunity to make a direct impact on plant operations and customer delivery
Collaborative, teambased manufacturing environment
Exposure to the global supply chain and planning networks
Commitment to safety, quality, and operational excellence
Strong culture of learning, development, and continuous improvement
Work with purpose-helping create products people experience every day 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