What are the responsibilities and job description for the Learning & Talent Management Technologies Lead position at IFF?
Job Summary
What’s your next big career move? If it involves driving meaningful change through learning, talent technology, and employee growth, we should talk. IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
People & Culture fosters a purpose-driven, inclusive culture where talent thrives, leadership grows, and every employee is empowered to make joy.
Be part of a collaborative, global, and impact-driven team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
The Learning and Talent Management Technologies Lead oversees the administration, governance, and continuous improvement of IFF's learning and talent management technology ecosystem. Reporting to the Global Head of Learning & Performance Enablement, this role is responsible for ensuring learning, performance management, and related talent technologies are effectively managed, and continuously optimized, enabling a consistent and scalable employee development experience.
Where You’ll Make a Difference
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
What’s your next big career move? If it involves driving meaningful change through learning, talent technology, and employee growth, we should talk. IFF is a global leader in flavors, fragrances, food ingredients and health & biosciences. We deliver sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
People & Culture fosters a purpose-driven, inclusive culture where talent thrives, leadership grows, and every employee is empowered to make joy.
Be part of a collaborative, global, and impact-driven team where together we can achieve greatness and make a real impact. Your potential is our inspiration.
The Learning and Talent Management Technologies Lead oversees the administration, governance, and continuous improvement of IFF's learning and talent management technology ecosystem. Reporting to the Global Head of Learning & Performance Enablement, this role is responsible for ensuring learning, performance management, and related talent technologies are effectively managed, and continuously optimized, enabling a consistent and scalable employee development experience.
Where You’ll Make a Difference
- Oversee daily administration and optimization of Workday LMS, Performance/Talent Management, and related learning technologies.
- Lead features and system release management, including impact assessments, testing, deployment readiness, and communications.
- Oversee support intake, prioritization, SLAs, and escalations for learning and performance, identifying opportunities to improve and automate processes.
- Define and maintain LMS governance standards, taxonomy, metadata, and content structures to strengthen consistency, discoverability, and reporting integrity.
- Manage technology integrations, platform modernization initiatives, and the advancement of emerging AI enabled learning solutions that enhance the employee development experience.
- Manage the configuration and technical execution of the performance management lifecycle in Workday, including goal setting, reviews, feedback, and calibration processes.
- Leverage learning and performance data to enable skills-based talent practices by integrating competency frameworks, career architectures, LXP capabilities, and emerging AI-powered technologies.
- Lead dashboards, reporting, insights, and evaluation strategies that demonstrate program effectiveness, capability growth, behavior change, and business impact.
- Create learning evaluation frameworks and assessment tools that validate program effectiveness, measure capability growth, behavior change, and business impact
- Lead, coach, and support LMS administrators while building a global, matrixed administrator community with clear roles, standards, training, tools, and ongoing support.
- Bachelor’s degree in HR, Learning & Development, Business, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least eight years of experience in HR technology, learning systems, LMS/LXP, or performance management platforms. Workday LMS experience is strongly preferred.
- Proven experience administering, optimizing, and improving enterprise LMS platforms and performance management systems.
- Experience supporting LMS and Workday releases, including testing, configuration, deployment coordination, and stakeholder communication.
- Experience designing and executing learning evaluation strategies, measurement frameworks, assessment instruments, surveys, analytics, and data collection methods.
- Strong analytics and reporting capability, including Power BI or similar tools, Excel, data visualization, and executive-ready storytelling.
- Experience supporting performance management processes, related analytics, adoption, and manager and employee experience improvements.
- Join a purpose-driven company focused on sustainable innovations that elevate everyday products.
- Work in a global People & Culture environment where talent, leadership, and employee growth are central to the business.
- Help shape scalable learning, performance, and skills technology practices that support employees and leaders globally.
- Collaborate with cross-functional HR, Talent, HR Operations, and technology stakeholders in a global matrixed environment.
- Lead work that connects technology, data, governance, and user experience to measurable business and people outcomes.
- Contribute to a culture where your potential is our inspiration
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