Enterprise Resilience & Continuity Lead

Air New Zealand Limited; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff travel

FlexiLeave

Learning culture

Employee discounts

KiwiSaver

Job summary

Air New Zealand Limited is seeking a Resilience Specialist (Business Continuity) to strengthen organisational resilience, protect essential operations and guide recovery during disruptions. You will partner across Digital, Risk, and Emergency Management teams to embed resilience into business strategy and operations.

The role focuses on leading impact assessments, developing continuity plans, and delivering training and live exercises to enhance preparedness and enable timely responses across

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading or coordinating complex programmes in business continuity, resilience, risk, or emergency management.
• Experience developing and documenting business continuity, disaster recovery, or crisis plans.
• Strong analytical capability with quantitative and qualitative analyses, impact assessments and risk evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders to understand business priorities and deliver practical continuity solutions.
• Lead business impact assessments and disruption risk analyses to identify critical functions and strengthen resilience.
• Develop, maintain and improve continuity and disaster recovery plans across the Group.
• Deliver training, awareness, audits and live exercises to improve preparedness and response capability.
• Partner with Digital, Risk, and Emergency Management to align resilience strategies with enterprise objectives.
• Provide expert advice during major disruption events to enable timely recovery of critical operations.
• Champion a culture of safety, resilience and continuous improvement while ensuring policy and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Business continuity

Risk management

Disaster recovery

Crisis management

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical thinking

Education

Tertiary qualification in relevant field

Job description

Air New Zealand Limited is seeking a Resilience Specialist (Business Continuity) to strengthen organisational resilience, protect essential operations and guide recovery during disruptions. You will partner across Digital, Risk, and Emergency Management teams to embed resilience into business strategy and operations.

The role focuses on leading impact assessments, developing continuity plans, and delivering training and live exercises to enhance preparedness and enable timely responses across