Manager Small Business and Manufacturing Policy

Make a difference to New Zealander's wellbeing

**Discover a career with purpose at MBIE**
- Join the dynamic and collaborative Commerce, Consumer Business Policy branch
- Focus on supporting the future of small businesses and manufacturers
- Team leadership and management permanent role in Wellington CBD

**Tenei turanga - About the Role**:
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced policy professional as Manager - Small Business and Manufacturing Policy within the Commerce, Consumer and Business Policy (CCBP) branch of the Building Resources and Markets business group to support the Minister for Small Business and Manufacturing to deliver on their priorities.

MBIE's CCBP branch is at the forefront of fresh thinking to make sure New Zealand has the right commercial laws, policies and infrastructure for our businesses to flourish. We design our regulatory settings and policies to give consumers confidence and encourage businesses to compete, innovate and invest.

We work internationally to grow investment and trade, and we build strong relationships with a diverse range of stakeholders and decision-makers across New Zealand. We are committed to meeting our responsibilities to uphold Te Tiriti/The Treaty and to support the Maori Crown relationshipin our work.

We are proud of our people and we want to see them develop into thought
- and people-leaders by developing and maintaining a culture of learning, development and wellbeing. In the Small Business and Manufacturing Policy Team, we provide advice on how to support small businesses and manufacturers, both from a policy and operational perspective.

We also give secondary advice on all policies that affect small businesses and manufacturers. We support the portfolio Minister in building relationships with businesses and their representative organisations to help ensure the characteristics of small business and manufacturers are considered in the design and implementation of policies that them. Relationships with the sector are key to this, and therefore the role would suit a person who enjoys being out and about in the sector.

In this role you will be responsible for:

- Setting strategy for the team, driving activity, allocating resources, cross-Ministry coordination and results to maximise the contribution that the team makes to MBIE outcomes and government priorities and goals
- Developing key relationship with internal and external stakeholders including small businesses and manufacturers
- Effectively influencing, and contributing to an authorising environment for teams to work within, through building and maintaining enduring relationships with senior stakeholders.
- Building and enhancing the overall capability of the team to ensure quality advice is provided to the portfolio Minister.
- Supporting Private Secretaries to fulfill their roles and duties in Ministers' Offices.
- Helping to build the relationship of trust and confidence between the Minister and MBIE and between Ministers' offices.

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**Skills and Experience Required**
- Advanced experience in shaping the development and delivery of policy advice and regulatory operation at a senior level
- Proven leadership skills including demonstrated ability to engage and motivate staff and an ability to foster and maintain a high performing team in a complex organisation
- Ability to quickly establish and build strong working relationships and to develop and maintain effective relationships with key government and non-government representatives and senior stakeholders
- Proven ability to communicate and persuade using a range of oral, written and visual mediums in diverse situations
- Have a people-focused and collaborative approach to leadership and work
- Understands what the government wants to achieve and has the ability to anticipate minister and Ministry needs
- Demonstrated ability to successfully manoeuvre through multiple complex projects and an ability to keep inquiring and learning under pressure or in situations with high ambiguity

**Etahi korero mo 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
- Maia - Bold and brave
- Pae Kahurangi - Build our Future
- Pono Me Te Tika - Own It

Our aspirations are echoed in our Maori identity - Hikina Whakatutuki - which broadly means 'lifting to make successful'.

MBIE recognises the partnership founded under Te Tiriti o Waitangi between Maori and the Crown and i