Export Sales Manager, La Vie
€40-43k
Vegetable meat product
Open for applications
Vegetable meat product
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
€40-43k
501-1000 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
- Solid experience in international sales & export (FMCG or Food industry is a plus)
- Strong negotiation, financial and supply chain understanding
- Fluency in English
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a proactive, results-oriented approach
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent relationship-building and adaptability to different cultures
- Agility and flexibility to seize new opportunities
- Education Level: Master's Degree
- Experience: > 3 years
What the job involves
- La Vie is on a mission to revolutionize plant-based food, and international expansion is at the heart of our growth strategy
- We are looking for a passionate, results-driven Export Sales Manager to lead our development across Europe and the Middle East (excluding France & UK)
- As International Sales Manager, you will be responsible for driving export sales, developing new markets, and managing key accounts across multiple regions
- Develop and implement export sales strategies to strengthen the brand's presence in global markets
- Identify new market opportunities and assess their potential for growth
- Build the annual Export Sales Budget in partnership with Sales Director and identify clear growth drivers to activate in order to achieve objectives
- Establish partnerships and distribution agreements with importers, distributors, direct food service customers and retailers in different regions
- Grow QSR partnerships in all Europe based on current deals
- Oversee the end-to-end sales process, from prospecting to contract finalization
- Manage export partners: drive their objectives, support their sales process and push them to reach their targets
- Oversee the existing global customer portfolio: share best practices and optimize growth opportunities in current markets while expanding partnerships into new regions
- Handle customers’ day-to-day management: respond to queries, proactively resolve complaints and issues
- Monitor export sales performance, analyze market trends, and identify areas for improvement
- Prepare periodic reports on sales activities, results and sales forecasts
- Work closely with the production, logistics, and marketing teams to ensure product availability and efficient distribution
- Manage the export team
Application process
- Start Date: 01 April 2025
- Process: You will have a first video call with our HR team, a second interview with Virginie, our CSO and a business case to complete in the office!
- You were kicking ass in all those rounds? Great!🤗 Last but not least : You’ll have a call with our CEO ! FYI we always ask for references!
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 five products so far. 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 and raised further funding in 2024 from Zintinus and Sparkfood. In only a short time, the company has been highly successful and 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
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2024
$28.5m
EARLY VC
Sep 2023
$1.8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $58.7m
Company benefits
- Benefiz insurance
- 50% Navigo OR the equivalent in green mobility
- 🚲 Holidays: 8 to 10 days RTT in addition to the legal 25 days for long term contract CDI
- Healthy snacks
- IT tools of your choice from BackMarket
- Pocket-friendly veggie lunch by Foodles!
Company HQ
Mail, Paris, France
Leadership
Nicolas Schweitzer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Founder and CEO of Inclusio, Managing Director of Asia for Oradian and was a EFPA2 Cohort Member.
Vincent Poulichet
(Co-Founder & CTO)Extensive research and education in physics / chemical engineering. Most recently as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Ecole normale supérieure.
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