Innovation Intern, La Vie
Salary: between 800€ and 1000€ / month
Vegetable meat product
Be an early applicant
Vegetable meat product
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
Salary: between 800€ and 1000€ / month
201-500 employees
Company mission
To evolve people from animal meat to vegetable meat with a big smile on their lips, and fat on their fingertips.
Role
Who you are
- Are you passionate about revolutionising the food industry and eager to explore the vibrant world of plant-based innovations?
- You are looking for a 6 months internship
- You are passionate about food and innovations (you live for food, you live for brands)
- You are extremely curious, creative and dynamic (you have your own Pinterest inspirational boards.)
- You always think of the consumer first (you have an ability to know what people want even before they do.)
- You are hands on, proactive and ready to take on new challenges (You can think outside the box and you see opportunities and provide solutions.)
- You are organised and rigorous
- You have a master’s degree in Marketing/ Innovation
- You are fluent in English and French
What the job involves
- Join La Vie™ as our Innovation Junior Project Leader and become a key player in crafting the future of our mouth-watering plant-based products across France and the UK!
- Monitor Market Trends: Stay ahead of the game. Track innovations and trends in the plant-based world, organise regular and inspiring innovations tastings, send the internal monthly newsletter “La Vie Times” (with market and consumers insights, with moodboards and new ideas), organise inspirational bi-annual Innovation Days “Inno Expo” (along with R&D & Marketing Teams inviting guest speakers, workshops, brainstorming sessions etc.) to foster the team’s creativity and inspire new product ideas!
- Lead Consumer Panels: Talk to consumers. Organise panels tests, define the tests objectives, recruit the targeted consumers, set up the tests, analyse results and recommend next steps to integrate the consumers within the product development process and make sure we launch the best plant-based products on the market!
- Assist Product Development: Be conso-centric. Assist the Innovation Manager during the product development phase by leading some packaging designs to launch products in different channels (retail & food service) and across different countries and by taking on missions such as prototyping, testings and tastings and recommend solutions always putting yourself in the shoes of the consumer
- Contract Type: Internship (Between 5 and 6 months)
- Start Date: 24 March 2025
Application process
- You will have a first video call with HR and a second interview with your future Manager, Valentine, then a business case in the office !
Our take
The Veganism boom came around the 2010s and is still very prevalent with a huge market for plant-based foods. La Vie is a Paris-based company that develops vegetable meats with two products so far: Vegetable Bacon Lardons and Vegetable Bacon. The company's passion for what it does came from the rise in intensive breeding now amounting to 14.5% of today’s CO2 emissions, 27% land use and 77 billion animals left in pieces in 2021.
The company had a huge win at the end of 2022 announcing its partnership with Burger King. La Vie bacon was rolled out across all UK stores in line with Veganuary. This partnership is said to be ongoing as Burger King hopes to be 50% plant-based by 2030 which is a huge success for La Vie. The company also won ‘Best Plant-Based Bacon in the UK’ at the Plant Based World Expo for the second consecutive year as well as ‘Best Vegan Bacon’ at the PETA UK Vegan Food Awards.
The company raised 25 millions Euros at the beginning of 2022 from Angel Investors including Natalie Portman. In only a short-time the company has been super successful and has established some well-rooted relationships for its product. We’re excited to see where La Vie takes its plant-based love and fun aesthetic next.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2024
$26.1m
EARLY VC
Sep 2023
$1.6m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $53.7m
Company HQ
Mail, Paris, France
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Leadership
Nicolas Schweitzer
(CEO)Previously Founder and CEO of Inclusio, Managing Director of Asia for Oradian and was a EFPA2 Cohort Member.
Vincent Poulichet
(CTO)Extensive research and education in physics / chemical engineering. Most recently as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Ecole normale supérieure.
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