Senior Product Developer in Family Nutrition - Aarhus

at  Arla Foods

Location:Aarhus N, DK
Are you looking for a position where you can combine theoretical knowledge of food technology with process know-how and consumer insights? Then join our product development team at Arla’s Innovation Centre in Aarhus, Denmark and help us deliver milk based powder products of the highest quality to international markets and consumers.
“You will join a strong team of 8 passionate colleagues in the Early Life and Family Nutrition team, where creative and detail oriented product development with high levels of technical expertise is in the center. If you are passionate about delivering high quality milk based powder products targeted consumers in international market, we would very much like to hear from you”, says Associate Innovation Director, Simon M. M. Pedersen

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?

Your key responsibilities:

• Turn concepts into innovative products in order to give Arla a commercial advantage in close cooperation with markets
• Drive product and process-related product development activities including feasibility studies towards supply chain, handling recipes and ingredients and recipe finalization
• Plan, implement, evaluate and document experiments in collaboration with labs and production facilities
• Support problem solving related to product and quality problems.
• Focus on final application usage to ensure correct product functionality
• Gain and use consumer insights and priorities time for creative ‘think out of the box’ activities
• Challenge processes and practices identifying opportunities for continuous improvement

To be successful in this role, you are curious, open-minded, adaptable, and able to see things from a broader perspective. You display a strong sense of quality and passion for both products and your work, allowing you to plan, organize, and document your activities accordingly. Further, we hope you have:

• A background in dairy, food technology, or food science with ingredient experience
• Minimum 5+ years of hands-on experience from a similar position or a production environment
• Solid knowledge of ingredients, their usage and functionality in product matrices – preferably in powde