Manager Business Planning Services

WorkSafe New Zealand; Wellington; On-site; NZD 153,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life insurance

Health insurance

Eyecare discounts

Five weeks' annual leave

15 days' sick leave

Rewards framework

Employee networks

Job summary

WorkSafe New Zealand, the primary workplace health and safety regulator, is seeking a Manager, Business Planning Services in Wellington. You will lead and mature the organisation's planning capability, connecting strategic priorities with delivery across teams and ensuring ownership of the plans.

The role requires strong leadership, governance experience and the ability to influence senior stakeholders, with a focus on coherent, achievable business plans and improved visibility of activity.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading business or organisational planning.
• Ability to design and implement organisation-wide planning processes.
• Proven track record of turning priorities into actionable plans and delivering results.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mature WorkSafe's organisation-wide business planning capability.
• Coordinate planning cycles across the organisation and align plans.
• Develop practical planning frameworks, standards and tools.
• Build relationships and encourage ownership of plans and delivery.
• Identify interdependencies and risks to ensure achievable outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Stakeholder engagement

People management

Change management

Job description

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• Lead and strengthen WorkSafe's organisation-wide planning capability
• Turn agreed priorities into coherent, achievable business plans
• Permanent role, Wellington preferred; other locations may be considered

About Us

WorkSafe New Zealand | Mahi Haumaru Aotearoa is the primary workplace health and safety regulator. Our vision is that everyone who goes to mahi comes home healthy and safe. We live by our values:

• Whakakotahi – we are united in a strong purpose
• Tiakina mai – we are entrusted with a duty of care

Enterprise Planning and Implementation is a new group established at WorkSafe to strengthen planning, coordination, and implementation across the organisation, particularly to improve how work is prioritised, sequenced, and supported through to delivery.

Business Planning Services sits within the Enterprise Planning and Implementation group. The team helps WorkSafe create a shared view of organisational priorities, capacity and planned activity.

You will lead two direct reports and work across the organisation to coordinate planning cycles and improve visibility of how plans connect. The team supports leaders to identify alignment, interdependencies and pressure points while business units retain ownership of their plans and delivery.

About the role / Ō te tūranga

As Manager, Business Planning Services, you will lead and continue to mature WorkSafe's organisation-wide business planning capability.

Working with leaders and teams across the organisation, you will help connect strategic priorities, business plans, operational activity and change initiatives into a shared and realistic view of what can be delivered.

You will build strong relationships, strengthen planning capability and encourage a more connected approach to planning across WorkSafe, helping leaders identify interdependencies, make informed decisions and maintain focus on organisational priorities while retaining ownership of their plans and delivery.

What You'll Do / Ko tōu ake mahi

• Lead and continuously improve WorkSafe's business planning discipline
• Coordinate transparent and well-timed organisation-wide planning cycles
• Establish practical planning frameworks, standards and tools
• Build strong relationships across WorkSafe and support leaders to strengthen planning capability and ownership
• Help leaders develop clear, coherent and achievable plans aligned to organisational priorities
• Identify interdependencies, risks and pressure points across plans
• Provide insight on organisational capacity, priorities and sequencing
• Encourage a more connected, organisation-wide approach to planning that supports collaboration and informed decision-making
• Significant experience leading business or organisational planning
• Experience designing and operating organisation-wide planning processes
• Strong understanding of prioritisation, capacity and sequencing
• Experience advising senior leaders on planning and delivery risk
• Proven ability to influence, align and build commitment across a broad range of stakeholders
• Strong relationship management skills, with the ability to work effectively with people at different levels of planning maturity
• A collaborative and pragmatic approach, with a track record of building capability and encouraging ownership
• Strong people leadership, coaching and capability-building skills

Familiarity with portfolio or programme governance, public sector planning and data or reporting tools used to show progress, capacity and interdependencies would be advantageous.

Salary range / Awhe utu

The expected appointment base salary range for this role is $152,761 - $168,932. KiwiSaver or SSRSS employer contributions are additional. From 1 April 2026, our KiwiSaver employer contribution increased to 3.5%.

We offer a range of benefits including:

• Free life insurance for the duration of your employment
• Health insurance and eyecare discounts
• Five weeks' annual leave
• 15 days' sick leave
• A Reward and Recognition Framework that celebrates the impact our kaimahi make
• Employee-led networks supporting our diverse communities

WorkSafe Mahi Haumaru is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and actively welcome applicants from all backgrounds, including people with disabilities and those who are neurodivergent. We believe different perspectives strengthen our mahi and help create an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.

This vacancy has been established as part of changes to WorkSafe's organisational structure after a review of WorkSafe's operating model identified opportunities to improve role clarity, ways of working and organisational effectiveness. As part of these changes, WorkSafe has established a number of new roles to ensure we are well placed to meet expectations now and in the future. Kaimahi whose roles were affected by the structure change will be given preference for all vacancies and will be considered in the first instance.