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New Zealand Trade and Enterprise

Strategy And Project Lead

Posted on March 24, 2025

Auckland City, New Zealand
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Full Time

This is a fixed term opportunity until 24th December 2025.

This role is based in Auckland.

Who are we

Te Taurapa Tūhono | New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) is the government agency charged with helping New Zealand businesses to grow internationally.

What you'll be doing

Reporting to the Director – Strategy and Programme Management, you will sit within our Centre of Excellence for project and change management, charged with leading the most impactful change initiatives across NZTE. Your primary focus will be enabling the successful implementation of our Customer Way roadmap - the operating model that guides how NZTE interacts with our customers to drive export growth.

The Strategy and Project Lead’s mahi includes clearly scoping the work to be done, driving clear deliverables, guiding teams to execute well, managing key stakeholder relationships and ensuring our customers and people benefit from project outcomes through solid change management expertise.

What you'll need to be successful

You are passionate about delivering projects that help implement an organisation's strategy, ideally having a proven background at managing projects or programmes of work. You will bring a wealth of experience running change processes, leading through influence and being able to manage and juggle multiple priorities and perspectives.

You will be an expert at building relationships and developing collaboration and trust across project teams and senior stakeholders right across the business. You will be a superstar organiser, highly detailed and adaptable, and be known as accountable to move at pace to deliver. You will also have outstanding communication and listening skills, have great empathy for others and can keep things simple and precise.

What's next

If you are interested in knowing more about this position, you can view a copy of the position description by clicking here Position Description.

Applications close 11:59pm, Wednesday 2nd April 2025.

Please note: you must have the legal right to work in New Zealand to apply for this role.

We believe New Zealand is good for the World. New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE) is an equal opportunity employer. At NZTE it is all about our people and we seek diversity of though; we welcome and encourage you to apply regardless of ethnicity, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, neurodiversity or disability. If we need to make specific accommodations in any part of the interview process, please note this in your application.

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