Principal Commercial Lead Mātanga Hoko Pakihi Mātāmua

4 days ago


Wellington City, New Zealand Statistics New Zealand Full time

**_A profile-raising procurement role changing the way Stats NZ contributes to meaningful outcomes, About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come. This ICT commercial role will have you delivering primarily to our Digital Programme and wider ICT programmes, projects and systems._**
- We need your big commercial brain and substantial experience in ICT commercial leadership.
- Work in our brand new 6-star green building in Wellington
- Interesting work within our Future Census and Transformation projects.

**For you |** **Mōu**

Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ are dedicated to diversity, equity, inclusion, health, and wellbeing. We welcome every gender, ethnicity, ability, religion, age, and background and encourage all our people to be their authentic selves.

**Starting salary: $136,776****:

- $178,742 + superannuation**

We encourage you to go to our careers site to learn more about working at Tatauranga Aotearoa Stats NZ, the **Way We Work**and our benefits. We want working for usto work for you

Other benefits of joining our Stats whānau include:

- Flexible by default, balance life and work commitments
- Develop and grow your career (coaching, training, study support, secondments)
- Contribute to meaningful work that makes a difference to all people in Aotearoa
- Three extra annual leave days (taken during Christmas office closure)
- City based offices that cater to a variety of working styles and needs
- State of the art, brand new 6-star green building in Wellington

**About Us |**Ko mātou**

Tatauranga Aotearoa - Stats NZ is a Central Government employer providing data and statistics to support the decisions of Government, Māori and Iwi organisations, businesses, NGOs, and New Zealanders. Our work is About Aotearoa, for Aotearoa - data that improves lives today and for generations to come.

**The role | Te tūnga**

The Principal Commercial Lead is a permeant full time role based in Wellington. This sits within the Commercial Arrangements Branch within the Technology, Operations, Commercial & Collections Group (TOCC). TOCC reports directly to the Chief Executive.

In Commercial Arrangements we use our expertise to build strong relationships and uplift commercial and contractual capability to drive excellence within Stats NZ. Our goal is to be the gold standard of Government commercial practice.

Reporting to the Head of Commercial Arrangements, you will be a leading specialist in your field and oversee the broad commercial aspects of assigned ICT programmes, projects and systems, and lead a team of up to four professionals. You will be a commercial lead and business partner, and may have a formal role in the leadership structure of assigned programmes/ projects. You will be responsible for providing leadership and end-to-end commercial lifecycle management for significant strategic ICT contracts (from strategy and sourcing, to supplier performance management and vendor account management, through to concluding contracts and disposals).

You will be a Trusted Advisor to the programme and accountable to the Project board/Senior Responsible Officer for commercial outcomes, cost/finance and risk management including probity.

You will be required to play a critical role in our ability to achieve our goals by creating and maintaining strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders and negotiating favourable contractual positions. You will support business owners by producing strong contracts, owning contractual management and advice, and communicate contractual changes and opportunities to all stakeholders. You will be responsible for leading the work with Stats NZ business owners, vendor managers and Stats Legal Counsel to resolve any contract-related issues that come up, whether internally or externally.

Our busy team needs someone to join us who:

- A relevant tertiary (degree-level or higher) qualification in ICT, business, law, commerce or similar.
- Minimum of fifteen years' work experience in a commercial role with proficiency in end-to-end aspects of the procurement lifecycle (including strategy, policy, sourcing, supplier relationship and contract management in large and complex environment).
- A track record of delivery in a ICT commercial lead role on strategic programmes.
- High quality written and oral communication skills suitable for a varied audience in a corporate setting.
- Experience using everyday office software including Microsoft suite of products (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Intranet, online communications channels for meetings and chat, etc.
- Competency or fluency in te reo Māori language or possess a willingness to develop knowledge and competence. (By 2040 Government aims to have 85% of its workers speaking te reo Māori).
- Experience working with major suppliers and vendors, external stakeholders and customers in the public and private sectors.

**What you bring | Nōu te rourou**

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