Foster's Group Reviews

Pros

Pride in our brands
Passion for our product set
Highly competent colleagues

Cons

Ineffective leadership
Discontent and disengagement caused by impending changes which are poorly managed
Lack of empowerment for highly competent workforce

Advice to Senior Management

We want to see courageous and visible leadership to bring us along with the proposed changes that the business needs: that will motivate the workforce and help drive success.

Pros

The brands and people. Good place socially

Cons

Political and senior mgt. Resistance to change

Advice to Senior Management

Get a new ceo

Pros

Great product benefits
If you get the right project, great opportunities

Cons

Overly political for it's size
Same levels of justification required for small and large spends
"Immature" environment around governance, IT, risk, etc

Advice to Senior Management

Don't believe everything your reports tell you. There is more managing upwards than downwards happening in various parts of the business.

Pros

Free beer (slab) every fortnight

Cons

It's an archaic, siloed structure with little alignment around core values or focus for individual businesses making execution difficult of anything sizeable a big challenge.

Advice to Senior Management

Sort out your culture and corporate alignment. It's not just the IT systems that make doing business with Foster's difficult, it's a lack of focus on the customer and what's best for our shareholders.