Resilience Specialist (Business Continuity)

Air New Zealand Limited; Auckland; Vor Ort; NZD 120.000 - 160.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Staff travel

FlexiLeave

Learning culture

Employee discounts

KiwiSaver

Zusammenfassung

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

Qualifikationen

• 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.

Aufgaben

• 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.

Kenntnisse

Business continuity

Risk management

Disaster recovery

Crisis management

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical thinking

Ausbildung

Tertiary qualification in relevant field

Jobbeschreibung

Kia ora!

Help strengthen the resilience of one of New Zealand's most iconic organisations. As our Resilience Specialist (Business Continuity), you'll play a critical role in ensuring Air New Zealand can continue delivering for our customers, people and communities when it matters most. Your work will help protect essential operations, minimise disruption and build confidence across the business. We welcome candidates who bring strong experience, fresh thinking and transferable skills to help us continue evolving our resilience capability.

Air New Zealand is consistently recognised as one of New Zealand's most attractive employers, with a strong reputation for innovation, customer service and culture. As we continue our journey to build a more resilient and future-ready business, you'll work with teams across the organisation to strengthen business continuity, risk readiness and operational resilience in an environment where your expertise will have visible enterprise-wide impact.

How you'll make an impact

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

What we're looking for

• Significant experience leading or coordinating complex business continuity, resilience, risk, emergency management, or related programmes
• Experience developing and documenting business continuity, complimenting digital disaster recovery, or crisis management planning
• Strong analytical capability, with experience conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis, business impact assessments and risk evaluation
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the confidence and ability to influence leaders, presenting complex information clearly and ensuring business continuity is prioritised accordingly
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic concepts into practical, business-focused solutions
• Comfortable working in dynamic environments, managing ambiguity and balancing priorities independently and collaboratively
• Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent skills and experience are preferred in Business, Engineering, Science, Aviation, Computing, Risk Management, or a related discipline
• Qualifications in business continuity, disaster recovery, emergency management, or crisis management will be highly regarded.

If you meet the majority of the criteria and are excited by the opportunity, we'd love to hear from you.

What we can offer you

We want our people to live their best lives and access great benefits that support their lives outside work.

• Generous staff travel benefits for you, and opportunities to share travel privileges with your friends and whānau
• FlexiLeave, giving you the option to purchase up to four additional weeks of leave each year
• A strong learning culture with development opportunities, on-the-job growth, and experiences that help you reach your full potential
• Access to a wide range of employee discounts, wellbeing resources, Employee Assistance Programme support, and medical cover options
• KiwiSaver and FlexiSaver retirement savings options with employer matching contributions, where applicable.

Ready for take-off?

If you're passionate about strengthening organisational resilience, influencing meaningful change, and helping Air New Zealand prepare for tomorrow's challenges, we'd love to hear from you. Join a team where your expertise will make a lasting impact across one of New Zealand's most trusted and innovative organisations.

Applications close Tuesday, 10th November

Additional Information

At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles.

Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.

"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."