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™
Why this job exists
The Senior Innovation Manager drives the development of consumer focused innovations from concept ideation to launch. This role also ensures all our portfolio meets consumer needs by leveraging strong consumer insights and building an agile consumer testing strategy.
Main Responsibilities & Key Results
1. Lead innovations from Concept ideation to Launch
On your ranges :
- Develop a strong understanding of your market: consumer needs, category drivers, and trends.
- Create consumer-focused concepts and build strong business cases in collaboration with local teams.
- For each NPD, set clear strategic objectives with KPIs and turn them into an inspiring marketing brief for R&D and Ops teams
- Partner with R&D, Culinary, and project teams to ensure on-time, high-quality and consumer centric product launches.
- Set packaging objectives and partner with our internal studio to deliver relevant packagings.
2. Build Strong Consumer Insights for Impactful Innovations
- Lead annual "Growth spaces review" to identify growth opportunities for our product portfolio and innovation pipeline
- Co-lead the annual review of the innovation pipeline with Head of Innovation and Innovation team
- Develop an agile consumer testing strategy with clear KPIs and tailored methods for each project.
- Track consumer trends with insightful quarterly dashboards.
- Track consumer feedback and turn them into actionable recommendations.
- 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.
- Contract Type: Full-Time
- Start Date: 10 February 2025
- Location: Paris
- Experience: > 5 years
- Occasional remote authorized
- Salary: between 50000€ and 55000€ / year
