Head of Dining & Hospitality in Sydney

Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic, and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic, and international services.

Job Description

Lead the design and delivery of Qantas’ end-to-end dining and hospitality across lounges, inflight cabins, and key service touchpoints. Drive culinary innovation and manage supplier and chef partnerships to deliver premium, brand-aligned dining experiences.

This role manages a cross-functional team and collaborates with key partners across Service Delivery, Procurement, Lounges, and Cabin Crew to deliver operational excellence. You will drive value through supplier and chef partnerships, oversee menu development, and ensure product selections meet both quality and cost expectations. With responsibility for budget planning and performance, you’ll balance creativity with commercial outcomes. Using data and customer insights, you’ll continuously refine the dining strategy to meet evolving customer preferences and set new standards in airline hospitality.

This is a rare and exciting senior leadership role within Qantas with high visibility and great ambition ahead. The Head of Dining and Hospitality will lead a direct team of 25, working closely in collaboration with operational delivery units.

You’ll have:

• 12+ years’ experience in food and beverage strategy, hospitality, airline catering, luxury service, or related industries
• At least 5 years experience in an airline environment
• Proven expertise in strategic product and experience design with a focus on premium culinary and F&B offerings
• Proven experience in delivering step change in customer experience and leading change in complex and constrained environments at scale
• Passion for customer-led innovation and elevating service experiences through insight and trend forecasting
• Strong background in supplier relationship and contract management, delivering value and quality
• Demonstrated success in leading operational delivery across multi-port, high-volume environments
• Experienced people leader with a collaborative, cross-functional working style
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, balancing creativity with business performance
• Tertiary qualifications in Business, Hospitality Management, Culinary Arts, or a related discipline

Why Qantas?

You’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully. There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel. We love to travel: Enjoy heavily discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays. We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave (plus superannuation payments on all paid and unpaid parental leave until your child turns 1) and additional purchased leave options for eligible employees. We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging program including motor vehicles, eligible portable electronic devices and professional memberships. We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether it’s learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.

Qantas is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application. Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation.

Be a part of something special and play your part in the Qantas story – get in touch today.