Marc Philippe

Technical Director and Site Director at International Flavors & Fragrances

Greater Nice Metropolitan Area

About

Results driven Technical Director in international environments. Strong performer who can add much value in professional contexts. I always promote innovation while staying business-focused, working with people with different origins and competencies to get the best of each individual. My Food Scientist background and the variety of positions occupied give me a rational/scientific approach and the capability to deliver significant performance improvement through process design, management and continuous improvement. I see myself as a facilitator, delivering technical support and working at the cross-roads of all the departments of the company, customers and suppliers. Competencies : Project Management - Extraction and concentration of natural extracts - SAP - IT - Sustainability - Quality assurance - EH&S - Process development - Production - Maintenance - Investments

Experience

  • Technical Director and Site Director at International Flavors & Fragrances
    Apr 2016 - Present · 10 yrs 3 mos

    LMR Naturals by IFF Management of certifications, product catalog, sustainability, quality assurance, EHS and investments

  • Membre du conseil d’administration at Le Club des Entrepreneurs du Pays de Grasse
    Apr 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Technical Director at Kerry
    Dec 2011 - Mar 2016 · 4 yrs 4 mos

    Kerry Ingredients & Flavours Management of investments, maintenance and process development Business deployment lead for the Kerryconnect project : implementation of SAP ECC and Wonderware MES throughout the 3 European Flavours sites (France, UK, Italy). Coordination of the super-users. Go-live : 2015 and 2016 User support – SAP system used on 3 sites in Europe and North America (300 users, 25 calls every months) and other pieces of software. Coordination of a team of 5 consultants. Migration to the Kerry ICT system

  • Project Manager at Cargill
    Jun 2006 - Dec 2011 · 5 yrs 7 mos

    Cargill Flavor Systems Roll-out of TekRF (MES from Motorola) on two sites in Great Britain. Roll-out of SAP on two sites in Great Britain with IBM Consulting. Integration into the Cargill IT system.

  • Project Manager at Evonik Degussa
    Jun 2000 - May 2006 · 6 yrs

    Degussa Fruits & Flavors Implementation of TekRF at Grasse (middleware from Psion-Motorola) - Creation of real-time interfaces to SAP. Project 6 Sigma with Price Waterhouse Coopers. Implementation of SAP R/3 4.6.c (project manager for PP, QM, MM) for 12 plants of the Business Unit (Europe and America) with KPMG Consulting. Coordination of RICEFW (reports, interfaces, conversion, enhancements, forms, workflow) with Deloitte consulting.