Project Manager Junior, La Vie
Operations
€35-38k
Occasional remote authorized
Vegetable meat product
Be an early applicant
Vegetable meat product
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
€35-38k
Occasional remote authorized
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To evolve people from animal-based meat to plant-based.
Role
Who you are
- 0 to 2 years of experience, Master's degree (Bac+5) — suited to a junior profile, typically a recent graduate (engineering school, business school, or a dual-competency background)
- You like solving problems and you can skills mediate disagreements and negotiate resolutions
- You have a strong leadership with the ability to lead cross-functional teams and Excellent communication skills in both verbal and written formats (for presentations and reporting)
- You have high levels of organization, autonomy, and proactive problem-solving
- You have qualities like empathy, curiosity, and openness, tenacity, adaptability, and a drive to meet deadlines under pressure
- You share enthusiasm for plant-based alternatives and the drive to contribute to a growing industry !
- You are fluent in both French and English (it's our internal language at La Vie !)
What the job involves
- As a Project Manager Junior, you'll be at the heart of that momentum: coordinating cross-functional teams and driving our most ambitious projects from idea to shelf
- Team coordination: Assign team members from across departments and ensure clear, efficient communication and follow-up with all stakeholders, in a cross-functional management capacity
- Planning & milestones: Build the project timeline, define and monitor critical milestones, and follow up on progress across all departments to ensure on-time delivery, in line with quality/cost/timing requirements
- Reporting & gap analysis: Produce clear reporting, projections, and gap analyses to keep stakeholders aligned, and prepare milestone reviews for the Innovation Committee
- Project reviews: Run regular cross-functional reviews to track progress and clear roadblocks fast
- Risk management & decision-making: Lead risk analysis with your teams, align on mitigation actions, and drive fast, sound decision-making when challenges arise
- Cost & resource management: Run cost simulations, manage budgets, and coordinate with co-manufacturers (COMANs) on investment studies — assessing required capex, evaluating impact on project P&L, and following up on equipment/machine installation planning
- Execution & documentation: Ensure operational tasks are delivered on time, with clear documentation for compliance and team clarity
- Low complexity: Packaging/artwork changes (text, logo, ingredient list), listing new customers
- Medium complexity: Recipe or ingredient changes, onboarding a new raw material or packaging supplier, extending an existing product to a new export market
- High complexity: New product launches (from concept to industrial rollout) or product renovations, starting up a new co-manufacturer or factory
- This role reports to the Projects Lead Manager within the Operations team
- Success is measured by adherence to the cost / quality / timing triptych across the project portfolio
- Contract Type: Full-Time
- Start Date: 16 November 2026
Application process
- You will have a first video call with the HR team and a second interview with your future manager, Aurélie, followed by a business case!
- You have proven yourself during these steps, and have your former managers confirmed that you’re amazing? AWESOME! → The final step is a quick meeting with our CEO
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 €25M 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. So it will be exciting 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
$28.3m
EARLY VC
Sep 2023
$1.8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $58.3m
Company HQ
Javel, 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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