Let's build Avril together !
By joining Avril, you’ll be joining a successful and committed company which considers each person as the leader of their own development and performance.
You are the actor of your career, and our role is to cultivate the uniqueness of each individual by giving you the means to develop your potential.
At Avril, every employee has talent!
Professional training and the development of the skills of Avril’s employees is an essential vector to anticipate and support the evolution of the Group’s activities. Avril Academy, Avril’s internal training university, meets this ambition by working to develop the “Talents” of today and tomorrow.
Thanks to a varied training offer, Avril Academy supports the implementation of the Group’s strategy and responds to business challenges. It enables the acceleration of a shared and common culture, such as safety and risk prevention, a priority for Avril, in order to contribute to the well-being of all at work. A complete managerial pathway enables the gradual strengthening of leadership skills, as well as the development of soft skills and cross-functional skills. From finance to human resources, including the supply chain, the Avril Academy can support the development of skills in many areas. Avril Academy diversifies its offer by proposing digital and e-learning capsules that allow you to train whenever you want through fun and short courses.
Joining Avril means taking advantage of an internal training Academy that will allow you to develop your singularity. It will also facilitate your professional mobility by cultivating a modern vision of the organization where leadership is embodied by all.
A career at Avril means personalized support
Avril is committed to identifying the potential of its employees and giving them the resources to progress in their career plan. The Group has set up a “Talent Management” approach based on privileged moments of dialogue between the employee and his or her manager to identify and develop the potential of each individual.
The follow-up of talents at Avril is thus marked by 3 main stages:
At the same time, Avril has set up a mentoring program to allow volunteers to accelerate their careers on a daily basis. Each year, around thirty pairs are formed to put an experienced Group executive in touch with a less-experienced employee. Whether it’s a question of career strategy, how to build a network, or finding a balance between personal and professional life, all subjects are open.
A career at Avril means a unique vision of professional mobility
The definition of mobility at Avril is quite unique: new entity, change of profession, geographical move… The diversity of the Group’s activities offers many opportunities for learning, career development and networking. The Group supports each employee to leave their comfort zone by offering new challenges.
International mobility, a real professional and personal challenge
“After 10 years in operations at the Saipol Lezoux site, then 5 years as Site Manager at Lesieur Vitrolles, the Group offered me a fantastic new international adventure!
For one year now, I have been Director of Costa d’Oro operations, which selects, assembles and packages olive oils before shipping them to its customers all over the world. International mobility is a professional and personal challenge.
It’s also a wonderful cultural opening and the opportunity to discover new working methods and processes that help develop one’s ability to listen, reformulate and summarize, as well as one’s ability to step outside the box. To sum up, it’s a brilliant experience and an important step in my career.”
Thomas Kermorgant, Director of Operations of Costa d’Oro
A career at Avril is an opportunity to share ideas and projects
The Group is attentive to what each employee can contribute to help the collective progress. To bring this culture of sharing to life, Avril creates forums to encourage the sharing of best practices among peers.
The Nourrir La Vie initiative is an annual challenge that invites employees to share their successes and performances in the form of individual or collective actions. An event highlights the year’s winners and promotes the spirit of initiative of employees, making it a source of inspiration for all.
Why did you decide to participate in the Nourrir La Vie program?
I decided to participate in “Nourrir la Vie” because this initiative is for me the best way we have to inspire others. And, on the other hand, it’s also a great opportunity to learn from the ideas of others, whether it’s during the presentation of the challenges or in more informal discussions during social events.
What challenge did you present?
In my team, we presented an innovative solution developed for the quality control laboratory at Saipol Dieppe: spectral imaging. This is a technique that makes it possible to determine the percentage of impurities in seed samples received in the laboratory.
Until now, the official method was to sort out the impurities in the seeds with tweezers to determine the percentage. The lab technicians spent 20 to 30 minutes on each sample. The analysis is now done by this new instrument, freeing up technician time to handle the additional sample volume generated since the ramp-up of OleoZE. Another advantage for the well-being of employees is that the implementation of this technique limits the visual fatigue of technicians.
How did you come up with the idea for this challenge?
The idea came from a visit to the Saipol Le Meriot site several years ago, where I was able to observe this practice. At that time, I didn’t have any solutions to offer, but a few years later, technological monitoring brought to light a technology that finally made it possible to respond to this problem. After discussions with the supplier and testing the feasibility of the technique, we offered to set up a project with Saipol to create the necessary calibrations for the analysis of rapeseed and sunflower seeds.
What will happen to your project?
The instrument is currently used routinely on the Saipol Dieppe site, but I have already been asked to duplicate this technology on other sites of the Avril group for the same applications! Other development ideas based on this technology have emerged, but on other types of samples. Maybe a new Nourrir La Vie challenge to take up!
Youth Excom
Aware that the younger generations have much to contribute to the group, Avril has created the Youth Excom. This think tank is made up of around twenty employees under 35 years old from all functions and sectors of the Group. This committee meets regularly for two years to reflect and work on all the Group’s challenges through the prism of the younger generation.