Scientist - Metabolic Health, Aarhus - Arla Innovation Centre (maternity cover)

Are you passionate about translating nutrition science into business impact—and ready to drive cardiometabolic health initiatives in dairy? And would you like to be part of driving and setting the direction for the early life nutrition agenda in Arla Foods?

In this maternity cover you will be part of a highly skilled team of scientists based in Arla Innovation Center placed in the Food Cluster in Aarhus N and gain a network across the organization as you work cross-functionally and with different science teams.

“You will join Nutrition & Health where we drive the health agenda of Arla Foods in terms of research and development. We are 11 colleagues, most with PhDs, who are passionate about how we help the consumers to live a healthier life and ambitious about our joint efforts. We love a good discussion and use each other’s strengths to perform better as a team,” says Head of Nutrition & Health, Anne Louise Mørkbak.

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How you will make an impact
In this exciting maternity cover, you will play an important role in driving the research agenda by supporting the strategic direction in Arla as primary nutrition point of contact for Skyr/Quark, Value Added Milk, Early Life Nutrition and Fermented business areas.

As a Nutrition Scientist supporting for Skyr/Quark, Value Added Milk, Early Life Nutrition and Fermented business areas, you are on top of the latest dairy nutrition science especially regarding cardiometabolic health and have knowledge within infant’s and children’s specific needs within their different growth periods. This spans from nutrition during pregnancy to the child’s first years of life.

You will be the one to translate nutrition and health science into business, delivering the solutions by integrating your knowledge into the business and projects.

Furthermore:

• Integrating all your nutrition knowledge into new product development within Skyr/Quark and Value Added Milk strongholds as and the Early Life Nutrition, Open Innovation and Fermented Business.
• Working in close collaboration with our regulatory department.
• Working in close collaboration with our product innovation departments.
• Enabling two-way knowledge transfer with stakeholders in Arla Foods, e.g. new product development and Marketing.
• Monitoring latest dairy nutrition science especially regarding cardiometabolic health but also for infants and children science.

Who are you?
A holistic thinker with a commercial mind-set, you are a champion at translating your scientific knowledge into business. You bring your personality into play in stakeholder management, collaboration and explaining your findings to colleagues outside your own function to engage and excite our organization on the health agenda.

You will take part in setting the direction for your area, so it is important that you speak your mind, are innovative as well as performance-driven and create structure around you.

Moreover, we imagine that you:

• Ms Sc and potentially a PhD in Nutrition Science.
• + 1-2 years of research experience within nutrition science.
• +1-2 years of experience in food industry an advantage.
• Business mindset and skills in translating science into business.
• Good project manager skills.
• Excellent English language skills orally and in writing

What do we offer?
We are committed to professional development and promoting from within. Our positive and collaborative culture will bring out the best in you. And you will join a market leader who produces nutritious household-favorite brands in a way that benefits our consumers and our farmers.

In this position, you will get to know the industry from within, and we are ready to give you your own areas of responsibility and the flexibility you need to solve your tasks. Furthermore, you will be part of a professional environment where you will learn, be part of interesting discussions and get all the feedback you need.

Please note this maternity cover position is expected to run until July 1, 2026.

Application and contact
If you want to drive innovation and help shape the industry, then seize this exciting opportunity as soon as possible.

For additional information, please call Anne Louise Mørkbak on +45 4160 7119.