What we offer

DRIVE IMPACT. CHANGE OUR FUTURE.

As a future Supply Chain graduate, you will accelerate your career towards a leading role in Supply Chain to help shape our business moving forward. You will be working alongside dedicated production and logistics managers at one of our dairies or terminals, gather direct experience of site planners scheduling the daily works of a production site and implement projects that are critical for our infrastructure in the markets

You will provide significant impact to our business by leading key projects helps you develop essential leadership skills. It's a well-rounded opportunity for personal and professional growth that sets you on a dynamic career path.

Why choose Arla’s Supply Chain programme?

END-2-END PERSPECTIVE

The programme will provide you with full insight to our Supply Chain organization with rotations across Production, Logistics, Planning and Engineering & Technology, across two different Supply Chain locations.

GROW AS A LEADER

You will build your project leadership skills as you work on strategically prioritized projects. You get the opportunity to learn and contribute at the same time and develop your leadership competencies with the aspiration to take on a leadership position in the future.

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

In Arla we believe in stronger people, and in growing with Arla. We therefore prioritized a high focus on your personal development. We will ensure that you get the right challenges at the right time to unfold your potential and grow.

The structure of the Supply Chain Graduate Programme

Through four exciting rotations across our Supply Chain organisation, you will get the full end-2-end insight to Supply Chain – from farm to fridge. For each rotation, all Supply Chain graduates will work on a strategically important project at their respective sites with the same overall topic.

We are looking to hire graduates across Denmark, Sweden, Germany and UK.

The structure of the Supply Chain Graduate Programme

1

Rotation

PRODUCTION or LOGISTICS

6 months – Home country

You will start at an operations site working on a project in either Production or Logistics

2

Rotation

PLANNING

6 months – Home country

You will stay in the same location as the 1st rotation and work on a project in Planning

3

Rotation

ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

6 months – Abroad

You go abroad in pairs to a different Supply Chain location and work with a co-graduate on a project in Engineering & Technology

4

Rotation

LOGISTICS or PRODUCTION

6 months – Home country

You will go back to the same location as the 1st and 2nd rotation in your home country. You will work on a project in either Logistics or Production

You will explore different areas

Production

Our Production takes place in 50+ locations across Europe and internationally, processing more than 13 billion kg of milk annually.

Starting with the milk intake, via different processing technologies such as UHT treatment or fermentation, to packaging, Arla’s dairies are a key part of creating value by utilizing our farmers milk in the most efficient ways.

End2End Planning

End2End Planning puts people at the heart of our processes, connecting & digitalising our planning activities for the good of our customers, farmers and the planet.

The goal is to enable customer centricity, optimisation, & efficiency, while fostering an empowered planning community – From farm to Fridge.

Engineering & Technology

Engineering & Technology drives our CAPEX investment plans and define our technology standards. This function plays a key role in delivering our sustainability targets, ensuring technology development and keeping our supply chain assets state-of-the-art, while enabling sustainable business growth - all in a safe, digital, collaborative and standardised way.

Logistics

Logistics maximizes value for farmer owners by ensuring milk and products move efficiently, safely and timely. We collect milk from farms, deliver it to dairies for production, and distribute finished products to customers, while leading in sustainability by cutting emissions, optimizing routes and loads, and reducing waste to minimize environmental impact.

Your development

We will accelerate your career on the job through competence development and project challenges. From day one, you will experience a steep learning curve and just the right amount of challenge on your professional and leadership potential.

Together with you, your manager will set realistic but challenging objectives and will guide you with continuous feedback to fuel your development by evaluating your performance and behaviour in the current position.

FUTURE. FAST. FORWARD.

DEVELOPMENT CAMP 1

WE ARE ARLA

Establish a fundamental understanding of the Arla culture and the core of who we are.

The camp will focus on getting to understand the Arla value chain from farm, to dairy to innovation, marketing, sales and everything in between.

DEVELOPMENT CAMP 2

GOOD GROWTH

You will build and solve a business case to gain a deep understanding of Arla's business and operations.

The second development camp will take place in one of our core markets outside of Denmark.

DEVELOPMENT CAMP 3

FUNCTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

During this week, you will strengthen core skills and competencies, while gaining deeper insights into Arla’s culture and ways of working.

The camp will help you expand your network further, and be inspired by colleagues from across the business. You will take part in engaging sessions designed to challenge your thinking and encourage collaboration.

DEVELOPMENT CAMP 4

GOOD LEADERSHIP

Reinforcement of our Good Leadership competencies.

We will focus on the importance of clear communication, showing decisiveness, and on a continued development of yourself and others.

Mentor

As part of the graduate programme a personal mentor will support you throughout your graduate journey. The mentor can help you build strong networks with colleagues and decision makers. They will provide professional and personal sparring where needed.

From Farm to Fridge

In Arla, the job diversity for our 14.000 colleagues in Supply Chain is big – from driving one of our electric trucks through the streets of Stockholm, negotiating a contract with a supplier on ingredients for skyr or using data at our dairy in Lockerbie to find energy savings.