We are currently looking to recruit a Project Officer on a 6 month fixed term contract to join us at our head office in Leeds. In this role you will report to the Senior Director – UK HR.

This is a 6 month project role where you will to bring to life our Employee Promise – part of our Future 26 People Agenda. Focusing on engaging our employees through driving the ‘Stronger People’ Future of Work Trilogy (Modern Working / Health and Wellbeing / Diversity and Inclusion) as well as purpose we want to ensure that we create opportunities for all to get involved in activities that support their own health and wellbeing as well as a higher purpose for our communities that we live in and serve.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate and consolidate the Employee Promise / EVP / Purpose activities across both Head office and the sites across the UK and ‘commercialise’
• Coordinate (via other employee representatives as well as on own) initiatives such as Open Farm Sunday, IGD’s Feeding Britain’s Future / Magic Breakfast / Fareshare to promote as many colleagues as possible to participate.
• Lead and/or participate in employee engagement initiatives within our head office function (along with other key colleague representative groups) with a view of encouraging larger numbers into the head office and living the Arla family feeling e.g.
• Pool together the internal and external requests and demands for Employee Promise and Charity funding requests, working with the UKLT to prioritise where we want to invest.
• Work with and support our projects leads to deliver engaging health and wellbeing initiatives for head office and scaling these by making resources available for the wider UK org

Key Skills and Experience

• Strong collaboration skills within a matrixed environment
• Ability to galvanise a community around a common purpose
• Develops a positive and broad network internally and externally
• Scale mindset – leveraging the full UK geography of Arla to achieve broad-reaching goals
• Inclusivity – creating and promoting a culture of inclusion and driving inclusivity within the teams
• Ability to lead and role model change

• Articulate communicator, with a clear vision and skills and personality to rally customers, consumers and the Arla organisation.

For more information on the role, please reach out to Talent Acquisition Partner Patrick Kilbride on pakil@arlafoods.com.

The closing date for this role is 16th December.

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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