Working at Saint Louis Sucre

Working at Saint Louis Sucre means working for a company on a human scale, with all the advantages of the Südzucker group, Europe’s leading sugar producer. Our company offers a wide variety of professions and is committed to developing the skills of the men and women who make up its workforce.

Working at Saint Louis Sucre means working for a company on a human scale, with all the advantages of the Südzucker group, Europe’s leading sugar producer. Our company offers a wide variety of professions and is committed to developing the skills of the men and women who make up its workforce.

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Saint Louis Sucre places great importance on mastering and developing the skills of its employees.

Multi-year programmes respond to technical and technological advances and encourage individual career development. They focus mainly on safety, management and technology, with specific courses for sugar mill/refinery and packaging jobs.

It is based on annual development interviews, and on forward-looking management of jobs and skills.

Saint Louis Sucre’s and the Südzucker Group’s integration programmes give them the keys to understanding their working environment.

Saint Louis Sucre’s pay policy is based on general increases and individual development, which means that pay is managed in line with individual performance.

The average salary at Saint Louis Sucre is €43,800. A significant amount considering that 14% of the company’s employees are managers and 43% are manual and clerical workers. In addition to annual remuneration, the employee also receives profit-sharing and incentive payments.

Saint Louis Sucre offers all its employees a high level of social protection.
These include:

80% financed by mutual insurance

an average annual amount of around 750 euros per employee

€500/year contribution

paid by Saint Louis Sucre for death, disability and incapacity insurance for each employee

Supplementary pension

an agreement has been in force since 2011. The company contributes 1.5% of salary.

Time Savings Account

set up by Saint Louis Sucre in 2019

For the past ten years, Saint Louis Sucre has been signing agreements with its social partners on gender equality in the workplace. In 2009, Saint Louis Sucre was the first sugar company to sign such an agreement. Since, 2017, the agreements also include quality of life at work. The agreement is closely monitored and an annual report is examined by the joint committee.

The proportion of women at Saint Louis Sucre continues to rise, from 17.8% in 2008 to 24.6% in 2023. For Saint Louis Sucre, it’s a question of measuring, understanding and taking action: measuring through work to identify discrepancies, understanding where any discrepancies identified come from and taking action to remedy them.

In the same spirit, Saint Louis Sucre scored 93 points out of 100 in the gender equality index set up by the French Ministry of Labour. Saint Louis Sucre will do its utmost to improve this result.

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