Principal Analyst - Performance Reporting Products

New Zealand Government; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 134,000 - 148,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks annual leave

Flexible working arrangements

Insurance (life, income protection, CI

Job summary

NZTA | Waka Kotahi is seeking a Principal Analyst - Performance Reporting Products to lead the evolution of performance dashboards across New Zealand’s state highway portfolio. This senior role focuses on translating leadership needs into trusted, practical reporting products and ensuring adoption in governance and decision-making.

You will steer priorities, backlogs, and agile delivery, collaborating with business and technical teams while coaching analysts to lift capability and consistency

Qualifications

• Proven leadership across analytics teams and product delivery.
• Strong ability to translate customer needs into practical dashboard solutions.
• Experience with planning and prioritising in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead ownership and continuous improvement of IDD's performance reporting dashboards.
• Gather customer needs; translate into clear dashboard requirements.
• Own the dashboard backlog with prioritisation and delivery planning.
• Lead improvement initiatives through planning, delivery and adoption using structured and agile approaches.
• Set and maintain fit-for-purpose reporting standards and processes.
• Collaborate across business and technical teams to ensure usable, sustainable dashboard solutions.
• Coach and mentor analysts to lift capability and consistency.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Performance reporting

Product management

Agile methodologies

Dashboard design

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Permanent, full-time * Auckland or Wellington

Shape and improve the dashboards that support decisions across New Zealand's state highway infrastructure portfolio. Do you understand how leaders use performance information, and can you turn their needs into clear, trusted and practical reporting products? We are looking for a Principal Analyst - Performance Reporting Products to lead the business ownership, development, continuous improvement and adoption of Infrastructure Development & Delivery's (IDD's) performance reporting dashboards. You will work across business and technical teams to ensure dashboards remain trusted, intuitive and aligned with the information leaders need to support governance and executive decision-making.

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity

This senior role sits at the intersection of performance reporting, customer needs and digital product development. You will provide leadership across IDD's reporting products, setting priorities, influencing stakeholders and shaping how performance information is used to support governance, investment and delivery decision-making.

You will lead the ongoing evolution of IDD's reporting products, balancing competing customer, organisational and delivery priorities to make informed trade-offs about where investment and effort are directed. Working with stakeholders across the business, you will help IDD strengthen the use of trusted performance information and support the shift towards digitally enabled performance management.

This includes:

• Leading the business ownership and continuous improvement of IDD's performance reporting dashboards.


• Gathering customer needs and translating business requirements into clear, practical dashboard solutions.


• Owning and managing the dashboard backlog, including prioritisation, enhancement planning and transparent communication of delivery priorities.


• Leading improvement initiatives through planning, delivery and adoption, using structured and agile approaches.


• Setting and maintaining fit-for-purpose reporting standards, business rules and processes.


• Working across business and technical teams to ensure dashboard solutions are useful, sustainable and aligned with customer needs.


• Coaching and mentoring analysts and senior analysts to lift capability, quality and consistency.

View the position description.

Appointment base salary is from $133,632 to $148,480, commensurate with skills and experience.

Ko koe tēnei | About you

You will be a curious, customer-focused analytical leader who can work confidently across business and technical teams. You will understand how portfolio, programme and project performance information is used, while bringing a strong working knowledge of Power BI, dashboards, data and product management to shape clear requirements and lead practical improvements. You'll bring:

• Demonstrated curiosity and critical thinking, with the ability to challenge assumptions and identify practical improvements.


• Proven experience gathering customer needs, defining requirements and translating them into clear reporting and dashboard solutions.


• Experience leading the continuous improvement of reporting products, using structured and agile approaches to planning, prioritisation and delivery.


• Experience working with portfolio, programme and project performance data in a large or complex organisation.


• Strong relationship management skills and the ability to work effectively across business and technical teams.


• Strong ability to communicate and present complex information to technical and non-technical audiences.


• Understanding of product management principles, including prioritisation, continuous improvement and user adoption.


• Strong working knowledge of Power BI, reporting systems and user-centered dashboard design principles, including how visual presentation, consistency and usability support effective decision-making.


• Strong analytical capability and experience coaching and mentoring others.

Ko wai mātou | About us

Infrastructure Development & Delivery leads the development and delivery of NZTA's national land transport capital programme. The Portfolio Performance & Insights team provides trusted, integrated and decision-ready performance reporting and insights for the state highway infrastructure portfolio, supporting effective governance, accountability and confident decision-making.

This role provides an opportunity to shape how leaders access and use performance information across one of New Zealand's most significant infrastructure portfolios, while building sustainable reporting capability and improving the experience of dashboard users.

What we offer

• 5 weeks annual leave and other leave provisions


• Flexible working arrangements


• Life, income protection and critical illness insurance for permanent employees


• Ongoing professional development
  
• The opportunity to improve performance reporting and decision support across a nationally significant infrastructure portfolio

Rā Katinga | Applications close : 5 October 2026

To be considered for this position you must have a legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

NZTA| Waka Kotahi is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion and are committed to providing a working environment that embraces these values. Please let us know if you need any support or have any access requirements that will help you through the recruitment process.

Please note that we may begin shortlisting as we receive applications. We encourage early applications as we may withdraw the advertising at any time.