BI Specialist & Business Partner, Arla Foods Ingredients

Do you enjoy translating business needs into impactful data solutions while shaping how BI is delivered and adopted? Join Arla Foods Ingredients’ Data & Analytics team to help define our BI Business Partner model and deliver rapid, value-creating solutions for our Commercial organization.

You’ll be the BI Business Partner for our Commercial teams—shaping governance, prioritizing the roadmap, and building proof-of-concepts that demonstrate value fast. It’s a hands-on role with ownership and visibility.

How you will make an impact

You will combine stakeholder-facing business partnering with hands-on BI solutioning. As part of Arla Foods Ingredients´ IT’s Data & Analytics team, you’ll build strong relationships, shape governance, and design data solutions that enable data-driven decisions across Arla Foods Ingredients’s value chain. In this role, you can look forward to

• Act as BI Business Partner for the Commercial Department, translating needs into measurable BI initiatives
• Define and implement processes, roles, and governance for the BI Business Partner model (handover patterns, data ownership, operating rhythms)
• Build 1-3 year BI roadmaps and prioritize development based on business impact and capacity
• Design end-to-end data solutions (requirements, data models, semantic layers, visualizations) and deliver rapid proof-of-concepts
• Facilitate workshops and discovery sessions; track and communicate value, performance, and adoption metrics for the BI portfolio

This role sits in AFI IT’s Data & Analytics team, working closely with central IT and Analytics to ensure production-ready solutions aligned with enterprise architecture. The role is based in our global headquarter in Aarhus and reports to the Senior Manager for Data & Analytics.

What will make you successful

You bring a strong BI toolbox, stakeholder-savvy partnering skills, and the ability to deliver hands-on solutions at pace. You’re comfortable shaping operating models and enabling self-service where it makes sense. In addition, we imagine that you have

• Bachelor’s/Master’s in Data Science, Computer Science, Business Analytics, IT or similar
• 3+ years of hands-on experience delivering BI or data solutions and in defining governance and operating models for analytics functions
• Proven stakeholder-facing experience translating business needs into data solutions
• Strong knowledge of Databricks, SQL, and Power BI; familiarity with data governance, lineage, and access control
• Practical engineering skills: SQL performance tuning, data modelling, Databricks notebooks

In addition, we hope that our new colleague is

• A clear communicator and facilitator, confident in workshops and stakeholder alignment
• Analytical and pragmatic, able to design solutions that balance speed, quality, and governance
• Comfortable with ambiguity and skilled at shaping direction and structure

What do we offer?

You’ll join a highly skilled team spanning BI specialists, senior developers, and AI/ML experts. We collaborate across AFI’s full value chain, enabling data-driven ways of working and supporting Citizen Developers on local efficiency initiatives. Expect a steep learning curve and opportunities to experiment with practical ML and generative AI tools that improve production and sustainability across our offices and sites. We’re committed to your development and a supportive, collaborative culture that helps you succeed.

Would you like to join us?

Please apply as soon as possible, as we will review applications on a continuous basis and close the recruitment once the right candidate is found. For additional information, please contact Senior Manager, Data & Analytics, Peter Andreas Novak Hansen on email: petah@arlafoods.com