Lead Strategic Business Analyst

New Zealand Government; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 141,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Income Protection & Life Insurance

Job summary

Maritime NZ is seeking a Lead Strategic Business Analyst to sit at the intersection of strategy, transformation and decision-making. You will work with senior leaders to define problems, shape future-state solutions, and provide insights to guide investment and organisational change that delivers lasting impact.

You will engage with executives, senior leaders and experts to understand challenges, explore options and develop a clear view of success.

Qualifications

• Experience working on complex organisational or enterprise-wide change initiatives.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking capability.
• The ability to identify patterns, connections and opportunities across large systems.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and supporting decision-making.
• Excellent facilitation and engagement skills.
• Confidence navigating ambiguity and competing priorities.
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to prepare high-quality strategic advice.
• A collaborative approach and the ability to build trusted relationships across diverse teams.
• Experience within the public sector, transformation programmes, operating model design, business case development or enterprise planning environments would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Define and shape complex problems and future-state solutions at an enterprise level.
• Provide insight to guide investment and organisational change.
• Engage with executives and senior leaders to understand challenges, options and success criteria.
• Develop strategic pathways, operating models and investment approaches to drive change.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder influence

Facilitation

Ambiguity management

Written communication

Collaboration

Public sector experience

Job description

Mō mātou | About Us

Our Vision: Preventing Harm. Saving Lives. Securing our Future

We play a key role in the guardianship of New Zealand waterways. We’re bringing together our aroha, work and skills to achieve our outcomes of sustainable supply chains and sectors, safe people and operations, secure ports and ships, and clean seas and waterways.

Our values are about who we are as individuals and the behaviours we expect from each other at Maritime NZ.

• Care | Kia Tika - We care for each other and do the right thing
• Connect | Kotahitanga - We unite in a common purpose
• Courage | Kia Māia - We are brave, capable and confident
• Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the team

The CE Office, Strategy and People Group brings together strategy, governance, performance, and organisational capability to set direction and support delivery across Maritime NZ.

Within this, the Organisational Transformation function ensures our people, systems, and processes evolve together as we deliver our strategy. It brings together multidisciplinary teams to design and roll out new policies, practices, and digital tool, and to support leaders and teams to adopt new ways of working.

Te tūnga | The role

As Lead Strategic Business Analyst, you’ll sit at the intersection of strategy, transformation and decision-making. Working with senior leaders across Maritime New Zealand, you’ll help define complex problems, shape future-state solutions, and provide the insight needed to guide investment and organisational change that delivers lasting impact.

You’ll work across a broad range of organisational priorities, bringing structure and clarity to complex issues, identifying opportunities for improvement, and helping shape the investment and transformation decisions that will influence our future. In this role you’ll be engaging with executives, senior leaders and subject matter experts to understand challenges, explore options and develop a clear view of what success looks like. From there, you’ll help create the strategic pathways, operating models and investment approaches needed to make change happen.

This is a rare opportunity to operate at an enterprise level, partnering with senior leaders to understand what needs to change, why it matters, and how to turn strategic ambition into practical, achievable outcomes.

Nōu te rourou | What you bring

You may currently be working in strategic business analysis, organisational transformation, operating model design, consulting, business architecture, enterprise change or a similar field. Whatever your background, you’ll bring a proven ability to connect strategy with execution and help leaders make confident decisions.

You’ll bring:

• Experience working on complex organisational or enterprise-wide change initiatives
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking capability
• The ability to identify patterns, connections and opportunities across large systems
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and supporting decision-making
• Excellent facilitation and engagement skills
• Confidence navigating ambiguity and competing priorities
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to prepare high-quality strategic advice
• A collaborative approach and the ability to build trusted relationships across diverse teams
• Experience within the public sector, transformation programmes, operating model design, business case development or enterprise planning environments would be advantageous

Mōu | For you

Maritime NZ recognises and respects te Tiriti o Waitangi and we are committed to working with Māori to build strong, meaningful and enduring relationships to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.We aim to be a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported with a sense of belonging. We encourage our people to actively contribute to our workplace culture where we all thrive and authentically live our MNZ values.

Upon joining us you’ll receive a full range of benefits including Income Protection & Life Insurance.Check out our full range on our careers page to find out more about why we love working here.

Salary range $140,735 -$171,946 depending on skills and experience + superannuation.

Applications for this role close 8th September 2026. Please also note that you must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand to be considered for this role.