Global Digital Portfolio Manager - Connected Worker, Supply Chain - Aarhus

Location: Viby J

Employment type: Full-Time/40 hours per week

Are you passionate about operational excellence, lean manufacturing, and helping production teams succeed through strong standards and ways of working? Do you enjoy improving processes, creating structure, and supporting colleagues across sites and functions? Then this could be your next opportunity.

At Arla, we are looking for an APS Excellence Manager to help continuously improve and strengthen the Arla Performance System (APS) across our global production network.

You will join the Global Operational Excellence and Digital Transformation TMO team in Supply Chain - an international team working with operational excellence, digital transformation, standards, and capability building across 50+ production sites.

How you will make an impact?
As our APS Excellence Manager, you will play a key role in continuously improving and maturing the Arla Performance System (APS), helping ensure it remains practical, scalable, and valuable for production sites across our global network. Working closely with production teams, and central functional experts, you will help strengthen standards, ways of working, and best practice deployment across Arla’s Supply Chain organization. Your responsibilities will include

• Supporting the development and continuous improvement of APS standards, templates, and operational best practices
• Maintaining and improving the structure, quality, and usability of APS documentation and operational knowledge repositories
• Collaborating with sites and functional stakeholders to gather feedback, identify improvement opportunities, and strengthen adoption of APS
• Supporting harmonized implementation of APS across markets and production sites, incorporating learnings from assessments, audits, and operational benchmarks
• Helping drive capability building and engagement through training materials, super-user networks, and community activities
• Supporting the development of KPIs, maturity assessments, and reporting related to APS adoption and operational excellence
• Contributing to the expansion of APS into adjacent operational areas such as Quality, Maintenance, Engineering, Planning, and Sustainability
• Working with digital and operational teams to improve tools and enablers supporting operational excellence and standardization

What will make you successful?
We imagine that the ideal candidate brings solid experience in operational excellence and continuous improvement, combined with a collaborative and user-centric mindset. As APS is an internal Arla system, we do not expect prior knowledge of it. Instead, we value experience with similar approaches or tools – such as another production management system – and the ability to translate that experience into our context. We are looking for an ambitious new member for our TMO who possesses

• A Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent work experience) in Engineering, Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 3-5 years of experience working with operational standards and continuous improvement in manufacturing or supply chain.
• Strong knowledge of Lean principles, standard work, and best practice deployment – ideally with exposure to multi-site or global rollouts.
• Proven ability to engage stakeholders across shopfloor, market, central functions, and senior leadership levels.
• Experience in change management, training, and adoption support.
• Analytical skills to develop KPIs and maturity assessments.
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken; additional languages are a plus.

Your curiosity, proactive approach, and ability to connect people and processes will help you inspire others and keep APS evolving as the foundation for operational excellence at Arla.

What do we offer?
At Arla, you will be part of a purpose-driven organization where people and planet come first. You will join a high-performing, international team at the forefront of Arla’s transformation, where your ideas and leadership can have a tangible impact on how we operate globally. We offer

• A dynamic and supportive environment where innovation thrives.
• Opportunities to shape Arla’s digital future and influence key decisions.
• Professional and personal development in a global FMCG organization.
• Flexible working arrangements and the possibility to work remotely.
• Competitive salary and benefits, with a focus on work-life balance.

Would you like to join us?
Please apply as soon as possible by uploading your CV and a short cover letter, explaining your interest in the role and why you would be a good fit. We will review applications and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis and close the position as soon as the right candidate is found. For questions, please contact Norbert Baricz, Head of the Global Operational Excellence and Digital Transformation TMO, at Se e-mailadresse på jobbank.dk .

Shape the Future of Dairy
Arla is a global leader in the dairy industry, committed to enabling good food choices that make life better, providing people with natural, sustainable nourishment, while taking care at every step to ensure Arla is a choice they can feel good about. If you are looking to shape the future with an ambitious global cooperative that truly cares about your growth, where everyone feels valued and empowered, and collaboration is the core of culture, Arla is a choice you can feel good about.

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