Junior Sales Executive - food Ingredients

The Company
30% of global agricultural raw materials end up as wasted resources. In other words, 6% of our global carbon emissions are generated for nothing. That’s it.

At Hubcycle, we are reshaping the food industry by transforming overlooked by-products into competitive ingredients. Our approach hacks conventional supply chains, demanding boldness, peak performance, pragmatism, and collaboration. This should never prevent us from delivering the highest food safety standards, though.

We act as professionals, always. 

Our culture

We believe a great workplace is about working alongside exceptional people who push us forward. We cultivate a culture of excellence, ownership, and impact, ensuring that each person at Hubcycle contributes meaningfully to our mission.

This requires creativity, resilience, and a hunger to challenge the norm. We are not here to play it safe; we are here to build a company that changes how the world sources food.

We move fast. We expect excellence. 

We challenge each other constantly. We don’t hide behind excuses. We don’t tolerate mediocre standards, negligence, nor carelessness. 

This environment is demanding and high-impact, but deeply rewarding. Let’s be clear: 

Even if this sounds sexy, Hubcycle is not for everyone. 

So please read on.

As a Junior Food Ingredients Sales Executive, your role will be exciting. Be the next generation of Food Ingredient Sales Expert. We spent 4 years chasing low hanging fruits, analyzing hundreds of side-streams and creating tens of ingredients. 

Now, time has come for us to share our knowledge and best practices through a just launched unique Academy.
Supported by our category experts, Academy joiners will have a unique opportunity to be part of a team that is building the new Food industry standard, pushing the sales with no limits. 

Day to day will be more or less as follow : 

• Discover and learn new ingredients specificities; 

• Benefit form  Sourcing and Product managers, about product history and technicity;

• Gain and apply technical sales knowledge to our specific industry, to build and develop your own client portfolio;

• Use your B2B sales knowledge and understand the value chain to sell the right ingredients at the right place, to the right clients. EU, US, CODEX, no limits !

• Map and prospect new clients, new countries and new regions;

• Identify technical issues, probe for more info and bring to best solutions for both of your clients and Hubcycle ;

• Leverage internal knowledge and support, to bring top notch service to your clients; 

• Grow and achieve exponential sales targets (with unlimited incentive);

• Monitor and improve profitability of your portfolio.

After a first ramping-up period, we will expect you to evolve autonomously, and start building a strong, rigorous & monitored sales pipeline on key accounts to build opportunities of upsell & cross sell. The world is your limit and we only started to explore it.

Who You Are

• You like challenges and aim high !

• Flexible and agile, you know what it takes to be part of a Start-Up, an ever changing environment.

• Autonomous, dedicated, humble, rigorous, proactive, details oriented. You know what “cut the crap” means. 

• You’re efficient & business oriented -no BS, just solutions. 

• Team player AND lone wolf : you own your projects but ask for help when needed. 

• You are known for your interpersonal and customer service skills, even in highly stressful situations.

• French or English. No problem, you master both of them. 

Must-Haves 

• A first successful 2 years experience in B2B selling food ingredients, ideally in one of our categories : Spices & Herbs, Juice Concentrates & Derivatives, Fruits Vegetable & Derivatives, Bulk Flours, Beer Derivatives… 

• Education in agronomy is essential,

• You have a certain knowledge of the food industry, its practices, its lexicon, and its key & underground players.

• You are familiar with the Art of Prospection, you enjoy all aspects of this special game,

Nice-to-Haves 

• You have a “circular economy mindset”

• You already worked on by-products

You embody our core values

• Discernment 

• Boldness 

• Dedication to performance 

• Communication 

• Collaboration 

• Pragmatism 

• Integrity