Workforce Planning Analyst

Discover a career with purpose at MBIE

• Apply your analytical skills and strategic thinking to workforce planning to support strategic management of workforce demand, supply, and risk areas.
• Grow your subject expertise and technical skills in HR and Finance fields.
• Engage with leaders across the business to develop and embed workforce tools and processes and identify improvement opportunities.
• Wellington-based permanent role
• $75,114 – $88,266 plus KiwiSaver and wellness benefits

Tēnei tūranga - About the Role:

We are seeking a passionate and proactive Workforce Planning Analyst to drive operational and strategic workforce planning across our organisation. This is a new and exciting opportunity to help shape our MBIE workforce to be best positioned to deliver tangible outcomes for New Zealand.

You will support the development and implementation of workforce planning frameworks and tools that ensure the Ministry has the right people, in the right place, at the right time. You'll help build and guide strategic workforce planning for business groups and contribute to long-term workforce strategies that improve sustainability, efficiency, and the economy in service delivery. Your insights will directly influence how we forecast, structure, and support our workforce.

The Workforce Planning Analyst will:

• Bring their business understanding and perspective to work in partnership with their manager, wider team, and stakeholders.
• Ensure quality and consistency of advice through critical analysis of complex information to assist the business in making effective workforce decisions.
• Analyse and plan organisational requirements to best meet expected service delivery demand, within the agreed limits of approved budgeted FTE levels.
• Assess service demand and plan the appropriate level and mix of skills that will be required for the MBIE to meet its operational outputs.
• Produce regular standard reports, in a timely manner and evolve the reports to improve presentation and the workforce narrative.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide high quality and well researched insights analysis on MBIE’s workforce including risks and opportunities.
• Develop workforce reporting that is relatable and impactful to support business decisions.
• Provide insights and data to inform MBIE business cases and/or change programmes.
• Use modelling and forecasting scenarios for current and future state workforce, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, data and information standards including data confidentiality, privacy, and security protocols.
• Identify continuous improvement opportunities to enhance workforce tools and processes.

In this role you will help deliver successful and sustainable outcomes that adds ‘real' value to the business.

About the Team

The Enterprise Workforce Planning, Change and Reporting team is a newly established function within the Enterprise Strategy, Risk and Transformation within the Strategy and Assurance Group. The Enterprise Workforce Planning, Change and Reporting team supports the organisation with strategic workforce planning, change initiatives and providing both operational and strategic reporting services.

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

We are interested to hear from candidates who have:

• Proven experience in the delivery and continuous improvement of business and operational planning,  performance reporting systems and processes, and analysis of information.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights.
• Demonstrated ability to use relevant software applications, including spreadsheets, databases, word processing packages and process management software.
• Excellent communication skills – written, visual, and verbal – with a focus on simplicity and clarity.
• Proven experience working with cross-functional teams and engaging a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience in a public sector or large operational organisation is highly desirable.
• A relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent experience in workforce planning, HR, or a related field.

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 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.

Me pēhea te tono - How to Apply:

All applications must be submitted via our online process.

Email Jess Dalbeth at jess.dalbeth@mbie.govt.nz quoting ref MBIE/17651 if you have any further questions.

Applications close on Friday 18 July (midnight)