Product Development Assistant, Arla Innovation Center - Aarhus

Do you have passion for food and want to contribute to high preforming cooking products for our consumers and customers including professional chefs?

 

We are currently looking for a Product Development Assistant to join our Global New Product Development (NPD) team within Cooking products. You will be based in Aarhus at our world-class Innovation Centre in Skejby, reporting to the Senior Innovation Manager, Cooking and Cream. You will be part of a global product development team with 12 colleagues based in different countries.

 

Read more about our part of the business here: INTRODUCING THE DEPARTMENT OF POSSIBILITIES | Arla

 

How you will make an impact

In order to deliver the optimal product performance for cooking products it is important to test and understand our products in the usage occasion. Your main role  will be  application testing of current and new developed products in the category of cream,  ice-cream, soup, sauce and other cooking products. You will work in close collaboration with  NPD managers, scientists and internal culinary chefs, and the testing of products  is carried out in our application kitchen, application laboratory and at the pilot plant facilities.

Furthermore, you will be:

• Build strong understanding of customer requirements handling, application, and functional performance
• Develop and standardize application testing methods and test product functionality accordingly.
• Update shelf life and robustness testing of existing product portfolio.
• Supporting with benchmarking activities such as feasibility studies, consensus mapping and other tasting sessions
• Documentation and evaluation of functionality tests

 

What will make you successful

You thrive in a supporting role with both some repetitive tasks and tasks that calls for your proactivity, detail orientation, structure and accuracy. You are motivated by learning and using the IT tools needed for the role . You will be able to demonstrate strong interpersonal skills and will excel as a global team player. You are truly motivated by learning and quickly grasp the insights behind the tasks. You might have practical experience from being a Pastry chef, baker or cook and afterwards taken an education to add theoretical knowledge.

Further, it will be an advantage if you have:

• A degree in Dairy/Process Technology, degree in Food Science and Technology, or similar. The ideal candidate can both be a newly graduate or have 2-3 years of work experience.
• Have great knowledge and understanding of process and production technology
• Finally you are fluent in English – both verbally and written.

 

Would you like to join us?

If you want to help shaping the industry, then seize this exciting opportunity. Please apply as soon as po