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.
From plants with Love.
La Vie™
Job Description
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.
Recruitment Process
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. 🥓💚
Additional Information
- Contract Type: Full-Time
- Start Date: 01 October 2026
- Location: Paris
- Experience: > 4 years
- Occasional remote authorized
- Salary: between 45000€ and 55000€ / year
