Head of Enterprise Investment and Portfolio Management

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

• Lead MBIE’s end-to-end investment management system
• Whole-of-Ministry mandate spanning investment, assets and portfolio management
• Newly created, strategically critical role

About the Role - Tēnei tūranga:

In this newly created role, you will provide enterprise-wide leadership across MBIE’s full investment and asset lifecycle, ensuring best-practice management of programmes and long-term value for the Ministry and New Zealand.

Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer, you will be a trusted advisor to senior leaders and governance forums, bringing independent challenge and rigour to investment decisions and delivery performance.

Key accountabilities include:

• Providing enterprise leadership across MBIE’s investment and asset management system, from strategic planning and prioritisation through to delivery, benefits realisation and asset performance.
• Leading investment prioritisation, portfolio optimisation and asset planning, supporting the direction of funding, assets and people to the highest-value outcomes.
• Owning investment governance and assurance, acting as the escalation point for portfolio risk and recommending intervention where required.
• Providing executive oversight of MBIE’s asset base, including performance, risk, lifecycle needs and future demand.
• Driving benefits realisation and value for money.
• Leading and developing a high-performing team.

There is a preference for this role to be Wellington based but highly relevant applicants residing in other main centres may be considered.

Skills and Experience Required - Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana

We are seeking an experienced public sector leader with a strong track record of leading at scale and building portfolio management capability.  This role calls for:

• Senior leadership experience across enterprise investment, portfolio and asset management, ideally within a comparable capital-intensive environment.
• Strong grounding in Better Business Cases, Treasury’s Investment Management System and public sector investment and asset governance.
• Executive presence and the ability to engage confidently with senior leaders, Ministers and governors, communicating complex investment and asset matters clearly.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, with experience evaluating investment and asset affordability, value, risk and benefits at scale.

About MBIE - Ētahi kōrero mō 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 ahunga roa o ngā iwi, o ngāi Māori, me ētahi atu rōpū Māori ki te Karauna, ka tutuki 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 kaupapa kua roa nei e tāmi ana i a ngāi Māori me Aotearoa whānui, ā, e whai ana hoki ki te tautohu i ngā āheinga kōkiritanga mā ngā iwi, me te tautoko i ngā iwi kia whai mana ake ai ēnei āheinga.

How to Apply - Me pēhea te tono:

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For a copy of the information pack, please email Jo Bell or Amy Tea on info@amytea.co.nz

Applications close on Monday 28 September (midnight)