Business Consultant, Business Process IT, Arla Foods Ingredients

Are you passionate about driving digital development and connecting business needs with IT solutions? Do you enjoy transforming innovative ideas into value-creating digital projects? If so, Arla Foods Ingredients is looking for a Business Consultant to join our Business Process IT team in Aarhus.

Arla Foods Ingredients (AFI) is a global leader in premium nutrition, dedicated to advancing lifelong nutrition through documented ingredients and products. As an independent company within the Arla Foods Group, we have over 2,000 colleagues worldwide. Our headquarters are in Aarhus, Denmark, and we maintain a global presence with sales offices and production sites across South America, Asia, Europe, and North America.

How you will make an impact

As our new Business Consultant, you will identify, develop, and enable IT initiatives that optimize business processes across AFI. Acting as a trusted partner to our business units, you will help shape ideas into structured projects aligned with our strategy. You will collaborate closely with stakeholders across the business and IT, ensuring opportunities are clearly defined, prioritized, and executed successfully.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Explore, capture and review IT demands from business and align with relevant stakeholders.
• Drive project maturation, facilitate workshops and engage stakeholders.
• Analyze business challenges and translate them into clear and actionable IT requirements.
• Build project proposals and business cases.
• Engage central IT, architects, and Agile Release Trains to drive solution delivery.
• Maintain and communicate the digital roadmap.

What will make you successful

We are looking for a structured and analytical professional who bridges the gap between IT and business needs. Ideally, you come from IT, consulting, corporate excellence, or a related field with experience spanning business processes and IT systems. You communicate effectively and enjoy collaborating in a global organization.

To succeed in this role, you bring:

• 2-5 years of experience in business process optimization combined with IT.
• A positive, curious, and proactive “can-do” attitude.
• Strong communication and facilitation skills to engage stakeholders at various levels.
• Experience with business process mapping and optimization.
• Detail-oriented with persistence to identify root causes.
• An analytical mindset and confidence in challenging the status quo.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and IT processes is a plus.
• A structured, results-driven approach.
• Fluent English, both written and spoken.

This position is based at our headquarters in Aarhus, Denmark, currently reporting to the Head of IT, until the Senior Manager for Business Process IT role is filled.

Would you like to join us?

If you are ready to take your career to the next level and make a real difference by shaping the future IT solutions at Arla Foods Ingredients, we encourage you to apply. Applications will be reviewed in early August after the summer holidays and on an ongoing basis thereafter. Please note that responses may be delayed due to the vacation period. For more information about the position, please contact Head of IT, Henrik Veng, at heven@arlafoods.com.

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