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).

Your Role

As International Sales Manager, you will be responsible for driving export sales, developing new markets, and managing key accounts across multiple regions :

🚀International market development:

• 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

📈Sales and customer management:

• 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

📊Analysis and reporting

• Monitor export sales performance, analyze market trends, and identify areas for improvement

• Prepare periodic reports on sales activities, results and sales forecasts

🤝Internal coordination :

• Work closely with the production, logistics, and marketing teams to ensure product availability and efficient distribution

• Manage the export team

✅ Hard Skills :

• Solid experience in international sales & export (FMCG or Food industry is a plus)

• Strong negotiation, financial and supply chain understanding

• Fluency in English

🎯Soft Skills

• 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

Ready to lead the international expansion of La Vie? Apply now and let’s build the future of plant-based food together ! 🔥

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 !

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 darn cool.

🚀 Unique adventure: Our vision is to become by 2040 the largest pork brand on Earth… Without hurting a fly! We’ll achieve this vision and tackle all the challenges on the way in what will surely be your craziest professional experience.

💙 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.

👩🏻‍🔬 R&D + Innovation: expect to learn a lot and eat a lot of samples!

💡Opportunities to learn and Grow: training, learning lunch, regular Q&A sessions with our leadership, honest discussions about our company KPIs, monthly feedback sessions

♡ Values that brings us together : #Examplary #Ambition #Teamwork #Sunny

🤩 Trust: respect and transparency from everyone.

🥳 Weekly afterwork drinks with the team

🏃 A healthy mind in a healthy body: Team Participation in sports events!

BENEFITS

🚲 100% Green mobility and 50% Transports 🏝 🍎 🍇 🍊 Healthy snacks + Daily team lunchs👨💻 IT tools of your choice from BackMarket💼 🥗Pocket friendly veggie lunch by Foodles!

La Vie is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

If you are passionate about plant-based innovation, have a successful sales track record in the food manufacturing sector, and are ready to make a significant impact in the European market, we invite you to apply for this exciting opportunity at La Vie.