Welcome to Global Shared Services in Gdansk

Arla is a global farmer-owned organisation that is behind many well-known and loved brands, including Arla Apetina®, Castello®, Lurpak® and many, many more.

As a BI Specialist, you become a part of our Global Shared Services in Gdansk. Here, you won’t find factory machines or farmers. Instead, you will join over 400 colleagues dedicated to supporting all of Arla with IT, HR, financial and procurement operations. Joining us, you will take part in our mission to make a real difference for colleagues near and far.

With over 10 years of existence in Gdansk, we offer you a lot of knowledge and the opportunity to partake in challenging and exciting innovation projects. As a part of the Arla organisation, you will also enjoy a Scandinavian, collaborative work culture. We are all on first name terms with each other, and we truly appreciate diversity and individuality.

About the job

This role is in the diverse and international, Workforce Capabilities & Analysis team in Application Services, IT Operations, covering the areas: HR, Finance and BI. Our team is placed in Viby, Denmark and Gdansk, Poland.

As a department, we are taking care of the IT maintenance and support. Ensuring we service our applications in the most optimal way focusing on quality. We empower ourselves and our partners with collaborating closely in a honest and open way whilst having fun doing IT.

We are scaling up in the BI area and you will join the newest team in IT Operations supporting our business users with “how do I?” queries, sharing tip and tricks and training in every area of Arla. The job will have you looking at very specific and detailed queries from super users and citizen developers from areas across supply chain, central finance, local country accounting teams, HR and the customer and consumer support teams as well as many others.

Specifically, you will:

• Answer How To questions
• Create and update BI training material
• Testing the BI solutions
• Support the Analytic Power House (APH) Agile release train
• Propose improvements to current solutions
• Share tips and tricks with stakeholders

Who are you?

You are focused and persistent on achieving goals using your abilities to ensure great collaboration with your colleagues and all our stakeholders. You will be working with a complex stakeholder environment, spanning different cultures. Thus, you have great facilitation skills and thrive at engaging with people of different cultures and from various backgrounds. Also, you have the ability to link IT and business need to business benefits.

Furthermore, you:

• You have a master’s degree within IT, finance or other relevant areas with at least 2 years of experience working in that area,

• Alternatively, you have got the experience working with reporting within the finance, sales or supply chain line of business and are open and willing to learn the rest,
• Working knowledge of SAP BI and/or Power BI will be a major advantage,
• Experience with ServiceNow is also an advantage,

• You speak and write English effortlessly,
• Some travel activities are expected.

What do we offer?

• Work in an international team & matrix structure
• Friendly atmosphere & comfortable work place (Neptun office in Gdańsk Wrzeszcz)
• Relocation package
• Medical care & life insurance 
• Additional benefits like gym card, vouchers, travel points or cinema tickets, etc.
• Development possibilities while taking part in internal projects
• Events, integration, like Summer or Xmas Party

Application and contact

If you want to drive innovation and help your colleagues worldwide, then seize this exciting opportunity.

Read more about Arla Global Shared Services

Global Shared Services consists of multiple functions that are all placed in the Neptun building in Gdansk – with colourful offices and a beautiful sea view.

As of now, we have an IT Operations and an IT Solutions division dedicated to SAP as well as a variety of app development and implementation projects. Our procurement and finance functions support a wide array of processes such as purchasing, distribution and sales globally.

We also have a dedicated HR operations division to ensure we attract, develop and retain the very best of talent around the world.

Together, we are all dedicated to one collective mission: ensuring an optimal global supply of fresh Arla products – every single day.