Export Sales Manager

WHO WE ARE

At La Vie™, we love meat, but we don’t love its impact on life. We’re on a mission to help people move from an animal-based diet to a plant-based one, whilst keeping a big smile on their face. Our unique product technology and patented vegetal fat recipe delivers the juiciest meat-like experiences ever known in the category. We are building a movement, a positive change for the industry and for the planet.

Come and join us.

THE ROLE: OUR NEXT HUNTER

Export is La Vie’s guerrilla territory: a small footprint today, a huge playground tomorrow. Its purpose is simple: generate additional sales for La Vie while keeping complexity low.

The potential is big: Europe’s QSR giants already serve our bacon and need better plant-based products in their menu to drive additional sales and attract new audiences - and plenty of brands are looking for the best plant-based products to power their own ranges.

This is a hunting job: we are looking for our next plant-based bacon addict who loves opening doors, closing deals and turning them into profitable, long-lasting partnerships. You will lead the international sales development (Worldwide: France & UK excluded) and manage one Export Business Developer (intern).

WHAT YOU WILL DO

BUILD - hunt for growth:

• Develop QSR deals across Europe as the top priority: grow existing partnerships on our current range and push our innovations to open new doors and win the major tenders ahead.

• Hunt partnerships with other brands (plant-based players & food brands) to sell our finished and semi-finished products everywhere our brand is not.

• Build the Annual Export Sales Budget with the CSO and qualify every opportunity against La Vie’s deal criteria: size, capacity, profitability, low complexity.

• Prepare tomorrow’s growth: assess new market opportunities and build the export plans for 2027+.

RUN - make it last:

• Maintain and grow our existing retail deals (Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands): promo plans, store distribution, innovation push.

• Manage our distributor & retailer partnerships: drive their objectives and push them to reach their targets.

• Own the end-to-end sales process on new deals, from prospecting to signature, and take care of your customers’ everyday needs.

• Monitor performance, analyze market trends and report on sales, forecasts and areas for improvement.

• Coordinate internally with production, supply chain, logistics and marketing to make every launch a success.

WHO YOU ARE

• A true hunter: prospecting, pitching, closing - you master the full hunting playbook, and you manage your clients best-in-class.

• Sales education with export experience, and a European QSR footprint: you already have a network in the QSR world.

• Strong negotiation skills, supply & finance acumen, fluent in English.

• Entrepreneurial mindset: organized, flexible, agile - comfortable in the unknown.

• Relational ease and the ability to adapt to different cultures.

• And ideally… a genuine plant-based bacon addict.

You will first have a video call with someone from the HR team followed by interviews with Virginie, our CSO, and key team members. We will also ask you to work on a practical case study focused and meet Nicolas, our CEO. We usually take references.

What makes La Vie unique?

Impact: We exist to put a happy end to animal-intensive farming. Waking up every day to save pigs and tons of CO2 is pretty cool.

Unique adventure: Our vision is to become by 2040 the largest pork brand on Earth… Without hurting a fly. Building the systems powering that ambition is part of the challenge.

People-first: Everyone at La Vie is passionate, smart and good-vibe. It’s pretty unique to feel you are only surrounded by people who truly care.

International environment: English-speaking and various nationalities.

Opportunities to learn and grow: training, learning lunches, regular Q&A sessions with leadership, transparent discussions about company KPIs and regular feedback sessions.

♡ Values that bring us together: #Exemplary #Ambition #Teamwork #Sunny

Trust: respect and transparency from everyone.

Monthly after-work drinks with the team

‍♀️A healthy mind in a healthy body: team participation in sports events

Ready to make the world switch to plant-based, one deal at a time? Come hunt with us.