Foodjob Nordic is now looking on behalf of Arla Foods to recruit a strong Science Director reporting to the Senior Vice President for Product and Innovation. You will be part of the leadership team at the Arla Innovation Centre and be sparring partner for senior stakeholder in commercial areas, supply chain and within innovation. Based on the Future26 strategy and the global innovation strategy, it will be your responsibility to develop a long and short term research strategy for Arla Foods globally.

In short, your responsibility will be to:

• Define and execute our Research strategy in close collaboration with key stakeholders.
• Secure competence and capability building together with the leadership team in Science - including identify and develop new technologies to create future competitive advantages (technology push).
• Deliver research projects according to plans together with relevant internal and external partners, and secure a successfully hand-over to the business.
• Identify and build strong relations to global research hubs, universities and researchers.
• Secure the Science business plan is aligned with Product & Innovation plans - short and long term – and secure IP rights when relevant.
• Create an innovative culture and strong engagement.

You will have great impact on Arla’s future ability to compete and deliver on our corporate strategy. What Arla Foods is offering is an environment where we passionately innovate from farm to plate. The Innovation Centre is at the heart of the Danish Food cluster – ranked first in the EU in terms of business investment in food and drink R&D – and the researchers are strongly connected, and make innovation happen, all across Arla and its markets.

Who are you?
You have documented, successful experience from a similar position within a food producing, international company. You have been part of or have defined a research strategy and know what’s important to be able to execute it as well. You are a strong people manager and as a true relationship builder, you are capable of balancing networking with a clear focus on execution and progression on our research agendas and projects. You are used to collaborate with universities, other researchers and research hubs and can hopefully add new network to Arla Foods. You easily navigate in a professional environment, collaborating across different functional areas and are driven by creating results.

Additionally you:

• Are able to translate science into business
• Have strong presentation skills and can communicate to different audiences.
• Have excellence English skills written and spoken.

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?

Salary and location:

• Based at Arla Food’s offices. Attractive salary package+ pension + benefits

Further information and application
Director & Founder Mads Kinch Clemmensen from Foodjob Nordic, tel. +45 2912 6119, email: [email protected] can be contacted for further information on the position.

We are looking forward to hear from you.