Export Sales Manager

77 Foods; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

La Vie seeks a proactive Export Sales Hunter to drive growth across Europe, excluding France and the UK. You will hunt new QSR partnerships, expand retail channels, and manage end-to-end deals with agility and profitability in mind.

You will lead international sales development and supervise one Export Business Developer (intern) as part of a fast-growing plant-based brand. Ideal candidates bring European QSR experience, strong negotiation and finance skills, and a true hunter mindset.

Qualifications

• Experience in export sales within European QSRs.
• Strong negotiation and financial acumen.
• Fluent in English with cross-cultural adaptability.

Responsibilities

• Develop QSR deals across Europe; expand partnerships and win major tenders.
• Maintain and grow existing retail deals (and distributor partnerships).
• Own end-to-end sales process from prospecting to signature; coordinate with production, supply chain and marketing.

Skills

Hunter sales

Export sales experience

European QSR network

Negotiation skills

Finance acumen

Fluent English

Entrepreneurial mindset

Cross-cultural adaptability

Plant-based product interest

Education

Sales education with export experience

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.