Business Specialist

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE
- Collaborative, flexible, friendly, and professional working environment
- Unique opportunity to come in at a specialist level and help deliver in an innovative and often fast paced environment
- Permanent, fixed term and secondment opportunity with salary range of $112,856 - $138,028

**Tēnei tūranga - About the Role**:
The Business Specialist role plays a key role in supporting Business & Consumer branch achieve its vision of creating a place where businesses and consumers thrive. As a service delivery focused branch which has grown significantly over the last two years, we have entrenched our products and services through impactful products and channels that reach 100,000s of businesses and consumers every week.

With a broad range of delivery capability, the branch offers a unique opportunity to work across all aspects of business and consumer wants and needs, where ultimately you have the ability to make real change.

The branch’s ambition is to continue to amplify our impact by further leveraging our products and services across MBIE and wider government.

The role of Business Specialist supports the branch by acting as a strategic flex resource, supporting the leadership team and key initiatives across the branch.

Reporting to the Director, Business and Consumer, the Business Specialists will form part of a collaborative and multi-disciplined talented Business Advisory team. If you have a ‘let’s gets things done’ work ethos and your ‘tool kit’ is full of multiple approaches to find a way forward, then this may be the role for you.

Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana
- A high level of experience working in a strategic role and a proven track record in leading large work programmes, balancing strategic and operational needs.
- Sound judgement, integrity and discretion, particularly around strategic risk management.
- Is comfortable working in an ambiguous and flexible environment, reporting through a matrix model.
- Strong writing skills, in particular skilled at drafting accurate and succinct correspondence and reports.
- Understands how to work with different organisational cultures.
- In-depth knowledge of processes at the centre of government as well as wider governmental processes and protocols.
- Makes quality decisions by using analytically sound, well-rounded, informed, and inclusive approaches.
- Strong stakeholder engagement / management skills.
- Ability to quickly establish and build strong working relationships, including with senior managers.
- Ability to develop capability of colleagues, including managers, through coaching and mentoring.
- A tertiary degree in a relevant field is highly desirable.
- Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

**Ētahi kōrero mō MBIE - About MBIE**:
MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders.
We do this by working with others to create an environment that supports businesses to be more productive and internationally competitive, enables all New Zealanders to participate in the economy through improved job opportunities and by working to ensure quality housing is more affordable.
People are at the heart of our mahi, our way of working is guided by our values which shape our behaviours.
- Mahi Tahi - Better Together
- Māia - Bold and brave
- Pae Kahurangi - Build our Future
- Pono Me Te Tika - Own It

Our aspirations are echoed in our Māori identity - Hīkina Whakatutuki - which broadly means ‘lifting to make successful'.

MBIE recognises the partnership founded under Te Tiriti o Waitangi between Māori and the Crown and is committed to giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We will do this through enduring, meaningful and effective partnerships with iwi, Māori, other Māori groups/organisations and the Crown, as this is critical to enable economic and social development, both for Māori and for wider Aotearoa New Zealand. We are committed to continuing to partner with iwi in order to find new sustainable solutions to address long standing systemic and cross-cutting issues facing Māori and wider Aotearoa New Zealand and we are also committed to identifying opportunities for iwi to lead and creating an enabling environment for iwi to leverage these opportunities.
E mōhio ana a Hīkina Whakatutuki i puea ake te kōtuinga I waenganui i a ngāi Māori me te Karauna i Te Tiriti o Waitangi, ā, kei te whai ia ki te whakaū ake i Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Mā te whai kiko o ngā kōtuinga ahungaroa o ngāi wi, o ngāi Māori, me ētahi atu rōpū Māori ki te Karauna, katutuki tēnei. He āhuatanga nui tēnei e āhei ai ngā mahi whanaketanga ā-ohanga, ā-pāpori hoki ki a ngāi Māori me Aotearoa whānui. E whai tonu ana mātou ki te kōtui atu ki ngā iwi mō te rapu huarahi hou ki te whakaara i ngā kaupapakua roa nei e tāmi ana i a ngāi Māori