Global Product Manager - Aarhus

Do you have a strong background within product management or project leader role within FMCG? Then this could be the right opportunity for you. You will be placed in Aarhus and part of the Global Product Management department in Arla located in 7 different countries.

Manage and optimize our global assortment

Your overall responsibility will be to manage, develop and optimize our product assortment portfolio – working with our strategic brands such as Lurpak®, Arla® and Castello®. As product manager for one or more of our cheese dairies, you will be the primary point of contact and sparring partner when marketing and sales organizations have requests regarding new concepts, products and packaging. You will ensure that we get the right product at the right cost and at the right time.

You will be a vital knowledge resource as well as a central link between the dairy, the marketing departments and sales organizations. In this way you facilitate smooth coordination and cooperation across the organization. You will also lead or participate in projects, e.g. in connection with new initiatives or in connection with aligning and optimizing our assortment.

As Global Product Manager you will play a key role in our global product management team. This is a unique opportunity to be involved with FMCG product management in a truly global dairy company.

Strong in product and project management

Your background has given you a sound business understanding and experience with product management and project management within FMCG. Your education is a business degree, ideally at Master’s level, which has given you a solid analytical foundation.

In the search for continuous improvement, you have a curious, proactive mindset, and you use your sensing skills to navigate within a large matrix organization. You display attention to detail and a structured approach to your work, and you thrive working with many tasks – planned and unplanned - at the same time. Besides having thorough insight into Arla Foods ‘systems and processes for handling marketing of products and brand, you also have a good value chain understanding.  Experience with SAP is a clear advantage. Lastly, you are engaged, positive and service-minded.  

Application and contact

We process applications on a continuous basis and close the job opening once the right candidate has been found. For additional information, please call Director for Butter & Cheese Product Management, Anders Laursen at + 45 8938 1719.

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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