The Innovation & Insights Manager plays a dual role critical to our success:

1. Core Innovation Project Lead: Drive the development of our core innovation projects from ideation to launch. By translating insights into actionable strategies, this role ensures successful execution and market introduction of consumer-centric products.

2. Insight Manager: Lead consumer deep-understanding initiatives across the full portfolio, ensuring strategic decisions are rooted in robust market and consumer insights. This includes managing studies, panels, and trend analyses to identify opportunities for growth.

This dual responsibility makes the position pivotal in shaping our portfolio strategy and delivering impactful innovations that resonate deeply with our consumers, accelerate their food transition and generate growth to sustain the business

RUN :

• Lead CORE range innovation from ideation to launch by developing consumer-focused concepts and collaborating closely with R&D, the Culinary Manager, and project teams to ensure timely, high-quality market delivery. This includes conducting robust market analysis, creating insightful concepts with local teams, building strong business cases, defining packaging objectives, setting project KPIs, and continuously challenging the team to deliver the best possible consumer experience.

• Develop and maintain quarterly insight dashboards to monitor and analyze market and consumer trends effectively.

• For each project, support teams in defining the appropriate consumer panel methodologies and KPIs, tailored to the specific objectives of the project and with an agile mindset.

BUILD:

• Market and Category Analysis: Develop robust methodologies and conduct external studies to uncover growth opportunities.

• Agile Consumer Panel Tasting Strategy: Establish a comprehensive panel tasting strategy, defining the right KPIs, action standards, and methodologies based on project types, business impact, and development stages considering our start-up environment.

• Consumer Feedback Database: Create and manage a database for consumer community feedback, ensuring insights are accessible and actionable

• Conduct an annual Growth Spaces Review, identifying strategic areas for portfolio expansion.

• You have 5 years of experience in innovation/product developement/FMCG

• You are passionate about food : Genuine love and passion for food with curiosity for global cuisines and food cultures

• You are capable of aligning innovation with the company’s vision, brand, and market positioning, ability to balance creativity with practicality and feasibility. You are able to think outside the box and envision future trends

• You are comfortable navigating ambiguity and pivoting quickly in a fast-paced environment with limited budget & structure

• You have outstanding communication and problem-solving skills

• You are able to take feedbacks from senior leaders, stay objective, and turn inputs into actionable improvements while keeping project goals on track

• You are Fluent in French and English (it’s our internal language at La Vie!)

You will have a first video call with HR and a second interview with your future manager, Jeanne, followed by a business case!

You were kicking ass in those rounds AND your former N+1s reconfirmed to us what a catch you are? AWESOME! 😃 → Welcome to the final round in our office with some bacon tasting and a meetup with our founders!

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: 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!

🤩 Trust: respect and transparency from everyone.

💡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 : #Exemplary #Ambition #Together #Sunny

BENEFITS

💰 A fair & competitive salary package with equity 🥼 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!

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.