Product Development Manager

Is your mind set on innovation, and are you looking for a job where you combine theoretical know-how of food technology with hands-on cheese product development?

This could be your chance to join a global company that takes natural products very seriously. Based at our Innovation Center in Aarhus, Denmark, you will join a team of resourceful colleagues in the Cheese Product Development Team. So, if you are a cheese lover and eager to take part in the development of tomorrow's cheese, we would like to hear from you.

How you will make an impact

The Cheese category is of high importance to Arla Foods and a major contributor to the success of the business through well-loved products and brands. As such it's key to ensure that we stay relevant for our consumers and customers through a combination of launching new cheese products and optimising the existing portfolio whilst reducing complexity in our supply chain.

The overall aim for your job is to deliver the cheese products of the future through impassioned and strong product and process development skills.

• As one of our cheese experts you will be delivering product understanding and technical know-how in order to drive product quality, new innovations and continued competitiveness across our cheese portfolio.
• You will be part of the end-to-end process from idea to handover and implementation and your key responsibility will be to lead, coordinate and be hands-on in developing, testing and documenting new and optimised cheese products.
• Furthermore, you will lead selected product and process-related activities and closely collaborate with your team as well as across Arla functions.

In short, you will use your creativity to evolve and develop our cheese assortment by translating market demands into ready-to-use product recipes and processes. Your assignments will include recipe and process development, product testing, trouble shooting, data collection, documentation and simple project management. You will have many touch points within Arla as well as with external partners and suppliers.

What will make you successful

• You have a background within dairy, food technology or food science
• You have min. 5 years of hands-on experience from a similar position or from a production environment where you have successfully built a solid base of product and process knowledge
• It is important that you are curious, open minded and able to see things in the broader perspective, just as you need to be persistent in order to deliver your projects on time and budget
• You display a strong sense of quality both for product but also in your work allowing you to plan and organise your activities and document your findings accordingly

You must be good at keeping an eye on details as well as juggling with several tasks at the same time without losing the overview. You are fond of cheese and take pleasure in tasting the products and presenting and engaging other people in the world of cheese. As part of a global team, you must have a strong command of written and spoken English.

What do we offer?

We're committed to professional development and promoting from within and we offer you freedom and accountability. Our positive and collaborative culture will bring out the best in you. And you'll join a market leader who produces nutritious household favorite brands in a way that make things better for our customers, the farmers who own us, and the whole world.

At Arla Foods we want to create the conditions for our colleagues to have a sustainable work life by offering flexibility and the opportunity to work in the office and remotely; based on the needs of the business and the employees. We call it the "Power of the Mix".

Would you like to join us?
For questions please call Andy Reid, Head of Cheese Product Development, on We process applications on a continuous basis and close the job opening once the right candidate has been found.

We have a purpose for Good

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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