• Job Description

  Req#: 89257

  At Arla, we do so much more than make some of the world’s favorite dairy products. We make healthy taste delicious, mornings worth getting up for, and family dinners unforgettable. Puck®, Dano®, Lurpak®, and Castello® – names like these make us a vital, natural part of modern life in over 100 countries around the world. We are 1,200 employees in the Middle East and Africa and 19,000 global employees at the heart of our business. Every single one of us plays an important role and together we build on our 1bn Euros turnover and establish our position as one of the largest dairy companies in the world.

  Can you provide the leadership and people skills to influence the development of large high-tech dairies? Then Head of MENA Supply Chain & Production at Arla would be the next role for you. You will be leading two state of the art facilities (Bahrain and KSA) and will be based in our Bahrain plant which is amongst the top ten plants across the globe in Arla, manufacturing different types of processed cheese under the brands of Arla, Puck and Kraft.

  This role will have a direct reporting line to Kim Villadsen, Senior Vice President of MENA.

  What will the role look like

  As the Head of MENA Supply chain, you will be leading a group of 9-10 function heads while looking over an organisation of 500+ employees. You will be embedding an Arla culture of safety, quality, efficiency, and ambition.

  You will have visibility and an opportunity to show what you can as a senior leader and be responsible for:

  • End to End Leadership – As a part of the MENA Leadership team, you will have a strategic & tactical role in the development and implementation of the overall supply chain pipeline while maintaining high quality end to end and collaboration crossfunctionally within Arla MENA.
  • Create, implement and refresh the functional strategic plan and implement appropriate programs to address evolving business requirements or issues, collaborating with Group and other divisions, regions, carriers, freight forwarders and other supply chain partners.
  • Constantly review external trends and identify internal opportunities for continuous improvement.
  • Ensuring that all departments comply with Arla Foods’ standards, health & safety first procedures including cornestones & developing Arla culture mindset, quality & first time right performance.
  • Establishes, measures and tracks Supply Chain E2E performance goals and use this information to drive a strong efficiency & performance culture in the entire SC value chain.
  • Works with data-driven decision-making using Arla Performance Systems such as LCO, OEE, CI, 5S, PowerBi etc.
  • Organizes resources and activities to ensure agreed deliverables by the means of an optimal organization and production process by ensuring capabilities & competencies.

  A natural born leader with a SC & dairy background
  You hold a degree in Dairy Engineer or have a similar background. You have experience from heading a SC & dairy production and have acquired in-depth understanding of business optimisation methods and effects. Clearly, you must have the will, urge and drive to set direction for a SC & production on both the strategic and the tactical level.

  You have established yourself as a strong leader and have a toolbox loaded with managerial tools to secure a first-class SC & production environment and buy-in at all levels. Your business insight is solid, and you manage to approach situations with an open mindset as well as determination, when necessary.

  You focus on quality and results in everything that you do, and due to your global outlook, you are open-minded towards cultural diversities and changes. You have excellent communication skills, sound commercial skills and are good at creating long-term relationships both internally and externally.

  Finally, it goes without saying that you should be passionate about dairy product quality, master English at negotiation level both verbally and in writing.

  
  Raise the bar for SC, Our Dairies and Our Employees

  You will become an important part of ensuring successful implementation of our MENA SC strategy & development and therefore we expect that you will have good collaborative skills and a global mindset when working closely with our MENA based commercial organisations. You will be Arla Foods MENA SC main contact and as such play a key role in the local community. You will also contribute to the business planning and strategy development process. As such, you will develop and execute short and long-term plans in close dialogue with colleagues across the business.

  Application and contact

  We process applications on a continuous basis and close the job opening once the right candidate has been found. For additional information, feel free to reach out to VP INT Supply Chain Lars Sylvest Vestergaard, +45 9131 4530.

  We have a purpose for Good

  At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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• About the company

  Our planet is facing a climate challenge. Farming and dairy carry responsibility, but also a great opportunity to contribute positively and help solve that challenge. At Arla, we want to be part of the solution.

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