Portfolio Manager

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

We're looking for a forward-thinking Portfolio Manager to join our team - someone who brings both strategic oversight and hands-on expertise, ensuring the NZIC has access to critical services, capabilities, and infrastructure.

What you'll do

Lead our non-technology portfolios and categories, driving business benefits and meeting strategic priorities. You will deliver results that keep the agencies safe through great planning and a partnership approach to everything you do. 

Working in a tight knit team, you will lead, support and grow the team's capability to deliver activities and outcomes within your portfolios and categories, in particular supporting more junior members of the team.

You will use your skills and knowledge to develop and implement:

• Portfolio and category development, business continuity, benefits, and performance plans.
• Supplier/stakeholder relationship management strategies and plans.
• Procurement solutions, with varying levels of complexity, that protect the agencies and support business outcomes.
• Contracts and contract management plans ideally through your drafting experience across a varying range of contract types.
• Cost savings, value delivery, and supplier innovation activities.
• Strategic commercial capability improvements.

What we're looking for

You must be able to bring:

• Experience in commercial or equivalent roles with at least 2 years operating at a senior level.
• Excellent relationship, written and persuasive skills with the ability to collaborate to deliver results, focused on meeting the needs of our customers and stakeholders.
• An aptitude to bring people with you in order to deliver activities and changes successfully.
• Creativity and insight, to overcome complex challenges and drive improvement.
• Excellent planning and organisational skills, with the capability to prioritise and work under pressure.

Ideally you will also be able to bring:

• Property and infrastructure procurement experience, or experience in other non-technology focused portfolios and categories.
• A relevant business, commercial, or procurement qualification or equivalent experience.
• Experience in some or all of the criteria for this role, but we may consider people looking for a step up with the right skills to succeed in the role.

Why join us

Alongside getting to work with our talented people, we also offer a range of comprehensive benefits which include:

• Medical Insurance and Vision Care packages
• Enhanced employer contributions to your Kiwisaver
• Generous Leave benefits, including additional paid days off and enhanced sick and parental leave
• Childcare allowance for your preschoolers
• Onsite free gym (Wellington only)
• Opportunities for personal and professional growth
• Great work-life balance

If you are looking for an opportunity to make your mark in an exciting, fast paced and dynamic environment, then this is the role for you!

The appointment range for this role is $103,009 - $109,876

 
Before you apply

Working within our unique environment means we have to ensure you're eligible for employment.

You must:

• Have been a New Zealand Citizen for at least 10 years

OR

Hold a current NZ Residency Class Visa and ideally have been a citizen of the UK, USA, Canada or Australia for at least 10 years

• Be eligible to obtain a Top Secret Special (TSS) security clearance
  • Ordinarily, this means you'll have a 15 year checkable background in countries NZSIS Vetting can make meaningful and reliable checks.
    
    

Still unsure? Use this online tool to self-check your eligibility for a TSS security clearance: http://www.protectivesecurity.govt.nz/eligibility-tool

The NZIC treats all applications for employment in the strictest confidence and we expect that you maintain a similar level of confidentiality during the recruitment process and throughout your career.

We'll provide you with information and tips throughout the recruitment process, but in the meantime check out our Myth Busting booklet: https://beyondordinary.nzic.govt.nz/mythbusting