Portfolio Delivery Manager

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

**Discover a career with purpose at MBIE**
- Work in a dynamic environment and play a key role in delivering transformational change
- Lead our project delivery teams, ensuring high efficiency, effective governance, and robust stakeholder engagement
- Have experience working with legacy systems and large-scale data projects
- Leverage your engagement, and collaboration skills
- Permanent opportunity | Wellington Based
- Salary range $132,417 - 160,472

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for driving impactful change through technology, data, and strong stakeholder relationships? Join our dynamic Strategic, Technology and Security branch, where your leadership will shape the delivery of innovative services and systems that support better outcomes for New Zealanders. We're looking for a confident, commercially savvy professional to guide high-profile projects and ensure excellence in governance, vendor management, and benefits realisation.

**Tenei turanga - About the Role**:
You will be part of the Strategy, Technology and Security Branch within Corporate and Digital Shared Services. As the Portfolio Delivery Manager, you will play a key role in delivering exceptional technology and data solutions that drive government outcomes within the Our Future Services programme reporting to the Head of Digital and Programmes - Immigration.

As a Portfolio Delivery Manager, you will be ensuring the successful delivery of Legislative priorities as well as ongoing system enhancements and maintenance activities. Your initial focus will be to understand the environment and deliver on a number of high-profile projects.

You will guide and influence projects in flight, leveraging your extensive commercial and technical knowledge, and exceptional relationship management skills. You will be instrumental in driving excellence through steering committee contributions, meticulous status reporting, and the development of compelling business cases and change requests.

Your leadership will extend to people management, ensuring our project managers are well-supported, trained, and effectively assigned to projects. You will be a key driver in building our team's capability through strategic recruitment and performance management.

**Nga pukenga me nga wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and Experience Required**:

- 10+ years of senior project management experience.
- Extensive strategic leadership experience.
- Proven track record of leading large project delivery teams in a matrix environment.
- Strong expertise in governance, compliance, contract, and vendor management.
- Extensive experience running simultaneous programs of work in a central government setting.
- Proven ability to act as a trusted advisor to diverse stakeholders.
- Strong judgment and decision-making skills in complex environments.
- Excellent communication and relationship management skills.
- Experience as a people leader, building a positive culture and leading project resources is highly desirable.
- Well-networked and respected within the industry.
- Experience delivering projects using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- **_You must be a New Zealand citizen or Permanent Resident visa holder. _**

**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 is committed to giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We will do this through enduring, meaningful and effective partnerships with iwi, Maori, other Maori groups/organisations and the Crown, as this is critical to enable economic and social development, both for Maori 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 Maori 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 mohio ana a Hikina Whakatutuki i puea ake te kotuinga I waenganui i a ngai Maori me te Karauna i Te Tiriti o Waitangi, a, kei te whai ia ki te whakau ake i Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ma