Shape Lion’s future across ANZ, exploring long-term growth opportunities and turning complex strategic questions into clear business choices.

Lion is one of Australasia’s leading beverage companies, with a portfolio of some of Australia and New Zealand’s most recognised and loved brands, including

XXXX, Hahn, Stone & Wood, Kirin Hyoketsu and Steinlager ,

Behind our brands is a diverse and complex ANZ business spanning brewing, supply chain, sales, marketing, innovation and more. As part of the Kirin Group, we also have the chance to think beyond our current business and explore how Lion and Kirin’s capabilities, assets and relationships can create new sources of growth.

We’re looking for a

Senior Strategy Manager

to join our Strategy team in Sydney and help shape some of the bigger choices that will influence Lion’s future.

This is a genuinely

ANZ-focused role , working across Australia and New Zealand and taking an enterprise-wide view of where Lion goes next. You’ll work with senior leaders across Lion, alongside Kirin and external partners, exploring new markets, partnerships, business models, technologies and capabilities.

Your role is to investigate the opportunity, connect the dots, build the commercial case and take the thinking to a clear decision point before transitioning it into the business.

What You’ll Be Doing

Explore medium and long-term growth and performance opportunities across our Australian and Current Zealand businesses

Lead the discovery and definition of complex strategic projects

Build business cases that assess value creation, investment, risks and trade-offs

Explore future scenarios and challenge assumptions to strengthen decision making

Connect opportunities and capabilities across Lion, Kirin and external partners

Turn strategic choices into clear priorities, roadmaps and actions

Partner with senior stakeholders across Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, Marketing, Technology, Insights and Planning





What You’ll Bring

Strong strategic and structured problem-solving capability

Commercial and financial acumen, with an ability to understand what creates value

Experience working within a complex business environment, ideally FMCG; experience from other relevant consumer industries such as pharma may also translate well

A background or strong exposure to Finance or Supply Chain would be valuable

The ability to think enterprise-wide, understand how different parts of a business connect and identify opportunities others may not see

Confidence working with and constructively challenging senior stakeholders

Strong collaboration and influencing skills, balanced with the ability to work independently and drive your own work

The ability to simplify complexity and communicate a compelling recommendation

This is an opportunity to step beyond today’s priorities and work on questions that could shape

Lion across Australia and Current Zealand for the next 3–10 years . You’ll have exposure across our business and the opportunity to influence strategic choices that can deliver sustainable, long-term value.

We’re a certified B Corp, which means we care about people, planet and purpose—not just profit. We’re committed to diversity, equity and inclusion, and we celebrate the unique perspectives that help us grow and innovate. We intentionally embrace difference and cultivate belonging every day, whether through our investment in our Reconciliation journey through our Innovate RAP, our commitment to gender pay equity or providing progressive people policies.

If you need specific support or accessibility adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know at

so we can make sure that your recruitment process is fair and we enable you to shine. This includes tailored support for First Nations people, individuals with disabilities, those who are neurodivergent, and people who identify as transgender or gender diverse as we understand the unique challenges and concerns you may face.

📌 Senior Strategy Manager (Sydney)
🏢 Lion
📍 Sydney