Senior Portfolio & Commercial Innovation Manager, Global Foodservice - Aarhus

Are you courageous. Imaginative and straight forward? Are you passionate about great food experiences and want to develop the future of dairy on Foodservice? This role can be your chance to make a difference together with a passionate and engaged team. If you are experienced within category management & innovation, and strong in project management, you can be the candidate that we are looking for. We offer an exciting role within the Global Foodservice Core Portfolio, Brand & Sustainability organization, where you will work with the local markets to deliver on our ambition of making the Arla Pro brand a leading B2B brand in the Foodservice industry.

The role reports to the Director for Brand, Sustainability & Core Portfolio.

About the job

As our new Senior Portfolio & Commercial Innovation Manager, you will lead and develop the Arla Pro Core Portfolio together with a team of direct & dotted line reports. The Core Portfolio consists of  a large amount of products within the categories of Milk, Cheese, Soft Serve, Milkshake, Milk Based Beverages, Cooking Cream, Yoghurt & other fermented products. You will be setting the direction for the development of the core portfolio and work cross functionally to develop a winning core portfolio that deliver on the Arla Pro brand promise. Together with the chef community, Innovation & local markets you will identify the Arla Pro core portfolio needs, develop clear portfolio USPs and drive scale across markets. You are passionate about delivering customer value and will engage with markets and customers to unlock the back-of-house innovation needs for both organized chains and independent customers to make Arla Pro stand out as true partners to our chefs.

In the role you will be measured on your ability to execute and deliver commercial results; and to plan and follow through. You will have the direct people management responsibility for a team consisting of 4 direct reports. Your indirect influencing skills are equally important, as you will work in the matrix and lead the FS PM community – incl. effective coordination of multi-market projects that include participation of local and Global PM´s, innovation, SC, Chef community.

In addition, you can look forward to being responsible for:

• Setting the direction and building the structure and WoW to effectively build ONE global Arla Pro Core portfolio
• Driving visibility & portfolio management of FS assortment and increase migration and market roll out of Arla Pro products to build scale in our portfolio
• Driving selected innovation projects on Core assortment
• Lead MAC of Core portfolio, and NRM sizing optimization
• Governance on portfolio management & architecture
• Drive prioritization & focus on delivery of the future26 strategy
• Contribute to a strong ONE FS culture together with the markets and role model our behaviors (Courageous, Imaginative and Straight forward).

Who are you?

We imagine that a successful candidate for this role is someone who want to make a difference and create the future of dairy together with a passionate team. You are passionate, result oriented and have a bias towards action. In addition, you are analytical and structured – your leadership is characterized by your ability to follow through, and you are comfortable working in the matrix with a broad stakeholder landscape.

In addition, you:

• Hold a master’s degree and bring +7 years of relevant commercial experience
• Have strong communication skills enabling you to deliver clear-cut messages to stakeholders at all levels in the organization
• Have strong collaboration skills and it feels natural to you to develop a positive and broad network internally and externally

What do we offer?

You will be part of our foodservice organization, where our positive and collaborative culture will bring the best in you. You will join an ambitious and passionate team devoted to build up a professional foodservice organization and deliver value for our customers and our farmers.

Application and contact 

If you want to help creating the future of the Foodservice industry, then seize this exciting opportunity. Please apply as soon as possible as we process applications on an ongoing basis. If you have any specific questions about the role that are important before sending your application you can reach out to the Director for Brand, Sustainability & Core Portfolio, Viviana Capaccio, on vicap@arlafoods.com

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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