Propositions Portfolio Lead

BNZ; Auckland, Wellington; Remote; NZD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Generous leave

Wellbeing support

Job summary

BNZ is seeking an experienced Propositions Portfolio Lead to guide the end-to-end development of wealth and insurance propositions. You will lead a roadmap, ensure strong customer outcomes and balance short-term value with long-term strategy in a banking context.

You’ll manage a talented team, collaborate with internal and external partners, and drive compliant, commercially sound propositions across Auckland or Wellington. The role offers growth and leadership opportunities within BNZ.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience in financial services, including significant wealth and/or insurance experience.
• Strong technical product knowledge in wealth and/or insurance (such as KiwiSaver, investments, life, health or general insurance).
• An understanding of how wealth and insurance products are distributed at scale, particularly within a banking environment, is advantageous.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to build collaborative relationships across partnerships.
• Experience creating and managing business cases, including managing spend within budget.
• Extensive experience managing the overall customer experience, including root cause investigation, proposition development and conduct management.
• Senior management experience, with a track record of developing individuals and teams to drive performance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development and delivery of our wealth and insurance propositions roadmap, ensuring each proposition delivers exceptional customer outcomes and a sustainable competitive advantage.
• Prioritise, sequence and deliver initiatives that drive BNZ’s strategic goals.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and external partners to bring propositions to life.
• Lead compelling internal and external communications across channels, aligned to strategy and delivered in market with excellence.
• Ensure governance and regulatory compliance across all proposition content and processes.
• Secure development funding for initiatives and manage your cost centre and team spend within plan.
• Provide clear direction so your team understands desired outcomes and milestones, removing blockers for efficient delivery.
• Build a high performing team through coaching, goal setting and development plans.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Commercial acumen

Product management

Regulatory awareness

Job description

Propositions Portfolio Lead# Job Opportunities## Propositions Portfolio LeadApply: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand: Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand: Full time: Posted Today: End Date: November 18, 2026 (14 days left to apply): JR122308Worker Type:PermanentHere at BNZ, it's about more than just banking. We work together in an agile, energising environment to create innovative solutions through our promise \"If you can imagine a better future, let's find a way.\"We support wellbeing, flexible working and have a generous leave offering. There is the opportunity for growth, learning and career development. No two days are the same.**Mō te Tūranga | About the Role:**We’re looking for an experienced senior leader to join our Customer, Product & Services team as Propositions Portfolio Lead. This role can be based in Auckland or Wellington. Reporting to the Head of Wealth & Insurance - Partnerships and Proposition, you’ll lead the creation, enhancement and end-to-end management of BNZ Wealth and Insurance propositions. You’ll own a clear, insight-led roadmap that balances short-term value with long-term strategic opportunities, aligned to BNZ’s cohort strategy. You’ll draw on your technical product experience in wealth and/or insurance to shape propositions that are well designed, compliant and commercially sound. This is a key senior leadership role that will help shape the future of Wealth & Insurance at BNZ. You’ll drive the direction for our propositions and play a leading role in how they are designed, developed and brought to life across the bank. Working closely with BNZ’s banking domains, you’ll embed Wealth & Insurance into our core banking propositions, ensuring they show up at the right time for customers and respond to their needs, while delivering strong commercial outcomes. You’ll also lead a talented team, building a collaborative culture with clear ownership and a strong focus on execution. What you’ll do day-to-day: * Lead the development and delivery of our wealth and insurance propositions roadmap, making sure each proposition delivers exceptional customer outcomes and a sustainable competitive advantage.* Prioritise, sequence and deliver initiatives that drive BNZ’s strategic goals* Partner with internal stakeholders and external partners to bring propositions to life.* Lead compelling internal and external communications across channels, ensuring messaging is clear, engaging, aligned to strategy and delivered in market with excellence.* Ensure technical accuracy, governance and regulatory compliance across all proposition content and processes.* Secure development funding for initiatives and manage your cost centre and team spend within plan.* Provide clear direction so your team understands desired outcomes, success measures and key milestones, removing blockers and resolving ambiguity so they can deliver efficiently.* Build a high performing team through coaching, goal setting and development plans, across both your direct team and matrixed ways of working. **About You:**You’re an experienced financial services leader with deep wealth and/or insurance knowledge, strong commercial judgement and a talent for turning customer insight into a focused, achievable roadmap. You’ll also bring: * 7+ years’ experience in financial services, including significant wealth and/or insurance experience.* Strong technical product knowledge in wealth and/or insurance (such as KiwiSaver, investments, life, health or general insurance), including how products are designed, priced, distributed and governed, and the regulatory requirements that shape them.* An understanding of how wealth and insurance products are distributed at scale, particularly within a banking environment, is advantageous.* Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to build collaborative relationships with and across partnerships.* Experience creating and managing business cases, including managing spend within budget.* Extensive experience managing the overall customer experience, including root cause investigation, lead identification, proposition development and conduct management.* Strong commercial acumen to identify key focus areas and support sound business decisions.* Senior management experience, with a track record of developing individuals and teams to drive performance. **Nau Mai ki te Pēke o Aotearoa | Come to the Bank of New Zealand**This is an exciting opportunity to join us! We're bold thinkers who are taking brave steps to create a company that people want to work for, and customers want to bank with. If you're ready to join a fun organisation where we are proud of our culture and how we are helping New Zealander's to 'Find their way', then show your interest by submitting your application - we can't wait to read it. *Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini\" - Success is not the work of an individual, but the work of many.”*Closing Date: 17 November 2026Applications will be reviewed regularly across the advertising period, but we do reserve the right to close applications early.