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Senior Applications Advisor, Arla Foods Ingredients - Singapore
Are you passionate about combining commercial growth, customer partnerships and technical food ingredient expertise across one of the world's most dynamic regions? This is a rare opportunity to join Arla Foods Ingredients in a highly visible regional role where you will connect customers, distributors, innovation teams and commercial colleagues to accelerate growth and innovation across APAC. Working closely with regional stakeholders and global HQ teams, you will translate market insights into commercial opportunities, support customer development projects and strengthen our position as a trusted ingredient partner. Read more about our business here https//www.arla.com/company/job-and-career/inside-arla/ How you will make an impact As the link between the APAC region and global headquarters, you will ensure customer needs, market trends and commercial opportunities are translated into impactful actions that drive growth and innovation. • Act as the key connection between regional teams and HQ, ensuring strategic alignment and insight sharing. • Support customers, distributors and Account Managers with technical application expertise and solution development. • Lead customer visits, technical workshops, training sessions and innovation discussions. • Drive market intelligence activities including customer feedback collection, trend monitoring and competitor insights. • Identify innovation opportunities and contribute to prototype development, new concepts and future product initiatives. What will make you successful You will likely bring experience from dairy ingredients, food ingredients, food technology, applications, technical sales or business development environments. A degree in Food Science, Dairy Science, Food Technology, Nutrition or a related discipline would be advantageous. We are looking for someone who combines strong customer engagement skills with technical credibility and commercial awareness. Experience working directly with food manufacturers, distributors or ingredient customers across APAC would be highly valued. The successful candidate will be naturally curious, collaborative and influential. You will enjoy building trusted relationships, uncovering opportunities and turning customer insights into innovative solutions. What do we offer? At Arla, you will join a purpose-driven organisation where collaboration, development and innovation sit at the heart of everything we do. This position offers regional exposure, meaningful customer interaction and the opportunity to influence strategic decisions while working alongside highly experienced commercial, technical and innovation teams. You'll be trusted with significant visibility across the business and supported in your professional growth. We are committed to professional development and promoting from within. Our positive and collaborative culture will bring out the best in you. And you'll join a market leader who produces nutritious household-favourite brands in a way that makes things better for our customers, farmer owners and the wider world. Would you like to join us? If you are excited by the opportunity to combine technical expertise, customer engagement and innovation within a fast-growing regional role, we would love to hear from you. Please apply as soon as possible. Applications close on the 25th of August 2026 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.
#LI-OLIBU Ref103744 Description Job ID 41001065 Job Title Senior Specialist - Sales Development Job Function Sales Job Family Sales Development Job Level 8 Career Stream Individual Contributor Job Title Senior Specialist – Sales Development Position examples • Senior Sales Development Manager
Level definition • Acts as experts both within and outside of the organization influencing leadership within a particular discipline/field. • Responsible for implementing the organization´s policies/processes and ensuring that the area complies with internal and external standards. • Manages projects/processes with limited oversight from manager and coach, reviews and delegates work to more junior specialists. • Influences senior management or stakeholders’ decisions to ensure optimal outcomes. Key responsibilities • Participates in NPD ideation process and acts as a commercial project manager on NPD. • Collaboratively drives, defines, executes & manages projects of moderate complexity. • Supports and provides input to strategy development and execution. • Handles complex tasks in collaboration with Sales (commercial, research, IP, regulatory, quality). • Contributes to Regional/customer direction with support, assists in specific market initiatives, and builds industry knowledge and relationships. • Monitors market development and assists in translating into feasible business opportunities with support. • Conducts financial and strategic analyses under guidance to support strategy, business cases, etc. • Assists in activating initiatives. • Supports best practice procedures and begins to coach and guide peers. • Engages in negotiation dialogue, beginning to qualify negotiation objectives with support. • Develops key sales development skills – assists in developing new business opportunities such as NPD, application concepts, and business improvements Educational background/experience • Advanced expertise (7+ years) as Sales Development Specialist or broader expertise in some areas within science and sales • Demonstrated consistent exceptional performance in Arla Business 2-3 years • University (Degree).
Competencies 02. SENSE 03. CREATE 01. LEAD
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