Arla IT Internship - Graduate Programme 2025

Do you want to have an impact on developing our IT solutions in Arla Foods? Our IT Graduate Programme will let you explore various aspects of IT and grow your professional skills through hands-on experience and guidance, development camps, a dedicated mentor and a great network.

About the IT Graduate Programme.

Our IT Graduate Programme will be kicked off from 1 September 2025 and from there you will be a part of a 2-year opportunity designed to start your career in IT right after graduation. The IT Graduate Programme consists of 2 job rotations allowing you to explore different areas of IT and come closer to your area of interest and expertise.

• First rotation (12 months): You will apply your technical knowledge and skills contributing to developing sustainable IT solutions or maintaining high quality in our daily IT operations.
• Second rotation (12 months): Your will continue growing your technical capabilities as well as personal development. Here, you will play a role in impacting the direction you want to develop in and in which IT area this should take place.

As IT Graduate, you will have broad career possibilities, and after the programme, your journey will continue in Arla IT in a role within your desired field. For additional information, read more about the IT Graduate Programme here.

How you will make an impact as an IT Graduate?

As an IT Graduate, you will be a part of a highly competent and diverse IT team contributing to both daily operations and long-term projects. Thus, you will have a close collaboration with colleagues across countries in developing valuable solutions for our colleagues, farmers and customers.

During the IT Graduate Programme, you will receive a variety of development opportunities every step of the way. To ensure your professional and personal development, you will benefit from:

• Specific training through licenses, certifications or conferences to fit your individual interest and technical development
• One-to-one mentoring and coaching from senior professional
• Graduate network to broaden your horizon during training, traveling and social events
• Training in personal development to understand and use this as a driving force for personal growth

The IT Graduate Programme offers three different IT roles. Each role is broadly defined, thus your interest and educational background will be important when shaping the right opportunities and helping you reach your full potential in the role. As an IT Graduate, you apply for one of three following roles:

Solution Consultant

You will gain hands-on experience in optimizing system processes and delivering innovative technology solutions. In this role, you will support data migrations, conduct testing and design efficient system processes. You will work with a range of SaaS and SaaP solutions, including Salesforce and other packaged software.

Data Scientist/Engineer

Within the data science area, you will be exploring possibilities to help Arla with state of the art models and algorithms based on data. You will use new data-driven technologies to solve critical business problems. When exploring data engineering, you will drive the best practices around cloud-based infrastructure and services. You will help deliver data and advanced analytics across Arla's value chain and help enable colleagues to utilize data.

Network/Cloud Specialist

In this area, you will build knowledge and skills around infrastructure, distributed systems, information technology and cloud optimization. You will be involved in the implementation of both technical and behavioural changes in Arla and help ensure a good collaboration with different stakeholders across a landscape of end users, vendors and supporting functions in IT.

What will make you a successful IT Graduate?

What truly matters is your motivation within your field of interest and your desire to become our future IT specialists. You possess a curious and open approach and a willingness to learn and explore new areas. Your analytical and problem-solving mindset as well as your knowledge, questions and ideas will enable you to investigate and challenge ways of working and contribute to the development of even better solutions. As IT Graduate, you will be working with various stakeholders, thus building strong relationships and close collaboration will be key in succeeding. Further, you:

• Aspire to pursue a career in IT
• Imagine yourself in a role as Solution Consultant, Network/Cloud Specialist or Data Scientist/Engineer
• Live in Denmark or Poland or has a willingness to relocate
• Hold a relevant bachelor's or master's degree within Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Mathematics & Economics, Physics, Business Intelligence or similar
• Graduated from your study no more than one year before the start of the IT Graduate Programme on 1 September 2025

Arla Futures – our global graduate universe

As a graduate in Arla Foods, you will become a part of Arla Futures – our global network across all our graduate programmes in the organisation. Together, you will embark on an exciting journey towards an impactful career in Arla Foods. 

We offer a comprehensive platform designed to kickstart your professional growth, featuring structured development camps, invaluable mentorship, and an extensive network of fellow graduates. You will play a significant role in shaping our future and guiding the organisation in the right direction.

Would you like to join us?

If you want to explore IT in a global organization and develop your professional and personal skills through an IT Graduate Programme, then seize this exciting opportunity and apply as soon as possible. The application window for the IT Graduate Programme is open from 18 November 2024 to 5 January 2025.

Before applying, please make sure that you have already prepared your CV, cover letter and transcript in English. You will be asked different questions on the application page, thus we recommend that you start the application process from a computer instead of a mobile phone. You can also read more about what to expect from the recruitment process.

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?

BEWARE! RECRUITMENT FRAUD

It has come to our attention that there are a number of fraudulent emails and fake recruitment campaigns on the internet from people purporting to work for Arla Foods. Learn more via this link.