Senior Product Developer in Early Life Nutrition - Aarhus

Location: Aarhus N, DK

Are you looking for a position where you can combine theoretical knowledge of food technology with process know-how and nutritional insight? Join our product development team at Arla’s Innovation Centre in Aarhus, Denmark and help us deliver early life nutrition powder products of the highest quality to international markets and consumers.

Dairy sits at the heart of infant and early life nutrition and continuous development and optimization of our assortment is essential to deliver vital products for consumers throughout our international markets.

“You will join a strong team of 8 passionate colleagues in the Early Life and Family Nutrition team, where detail oriented product development with high levels of technical expertise is in the center. If you are passionate about working with and developing highly complex dairy products we would very much like to hear from you”, says Associate Innovation Director, Simon M. M. Pedersen

How you will make an impact
In this role you will be one of our product developers within Early Life Nutrition. You will support the development and transfer of our recipes and products to a new strategical production partner. The Early Life Nutrition community in Arla Foods amba is tight connected and you will work in close collaboration with both colleagues in product development, regulatory, product management, international markets, the global category and external partners. Your assignments will include recipe and process development, data management and handling, documentation and trouble shooting.

Your key responsibility will be:

• Recipe and product development within Early Life Nutrition
• Handling of large data sets and complex product component dependencies
• Collaborate with our external partner to deliver production and transfer of products on time
• Collaborate with category and markets to ensure continuous development of opportunities
• Participate in the end-to-end process from ideation to implementation

How you will make an impact
To be successful in this role, you are curious, open-minded, and able to see things from a broader perspective. You are detail oriented and you have strong competencies within handling large data sets and complex data sheets. You display a strong sense of quality in both products and your work, allowing you to plan, organize, and document your activities accordingly. Furthermore, you have a solid ingredient knowledge.

Additionally we imagine that you have:

• A background in dairy, food technology, or food science with extensive ingredient experience.
• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience from a similar position or a production environment, where you have successfully built a solid base of product and process knowledge.
• Knowledge on nutrition – in particular early life - is an advantage
• As part of a global team, you must be fluent in written and spoken English.

What do we offer?
We’re committed to professional development and growth, offering you freedom and accountability. Our positive and collaborative culture will bring out the best in you. You’ll join a category in the company that is going through a transition phase where pace and progress is fast and the requirement to deliver is high – for the benefit of our customers, the farmers who own us and the whole world.

Would you like to join us?
For questions, please contact Simon Metz Mariendal Pedersen, Associate Innovation Director at +45 8746 6754. Please note, unreachable from Friday 20th of December until 6th of January due to Holidays. We process applications continuously and close the job opening once the right candidate is 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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