Senior Data Analyst

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment; Christchurch, Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 101,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

KiwiSaver & Wellness Benefits

Higher duties allowance

101k to 121k+ per year

Job summary

Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment is seeking a Senior Data Analyst (Fixed Term) to shape national tourism data usage. Design and deliver dashboards, data products and insights for government and industry decision-makers, covering the full data product lifecycle.

You will collaborate with MBIE teams, ensure data quality, and drive self-serve analytics while supporting the Tourism Data and Insights Work Programme. Wellington or Christchurch location, 21-month contract.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in data management, analysis and visualisation.
• Strong experience using R and/or Python to manage, transform and analyse data.
• Strong SQL skills with complex datasets.
• Experience developing dashboards and interactive analytics products.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve tourism data products, dashboards, and analytical tools across the full data product lifecycle.
• Make tourism information accessible, meaningful and easy to use through reports and interactive tools.
• Collaborate with MBIE and industry partners to deliver trusted, user-focused insights.

Skills

Data management

Data analysis

Data visualization

R and/or Python

SQL

Stakeholder engagement

Written and verbal communication

User-focused product design

Public policy context

Tools

Power BI

SQL

Python

R

Power Automate

Job description

Senior Data Analyst (Fixed Term)

Help shape how New Zealand's tourism data is accessed, understood and used. Design and deliver impactful dashboards, data products, visualisations and insights for government and industry decision-makers. Apply your data, analysis and storytelling skills to turn complex information into practical evidence. Join a high-performing, collaborative team with a strong reputation for analytical excellence and stakeholder engagement.

Contract: Fixed-term or secondment position (21 months).

Location: Wellington (preferred) and Christchurch.

• $101k to $121k+ per year
• KiwiSaver & Wellness Benefits
• Higher duties allowance if applicable

About the Role - Tēnei tūranga:

We are seeking to bring an experienced Senior Data Analyst to join the Tourism Domain team in MBIE's Data, Intelligence and Insights Branch. This fixed-term role will support the Tourism Data and Insights Work Programme while helping maintain core tourism data, reporting, stakeholder engagement and data stewardship activities.

You will develop and improve tourism data products, dashboards, and analytical tools across the full data product lifecycle from understanding user needs and managing data to analysis, visualisation and delivery. A key focus will be making tourism information accessible, meaningful and easy to use, including through reports, interactive tools and the Tourism Evidence and Insights Centre.

Working with colleagues across MBIE and the tourism sector, you will improve data quality, modernise processes, strengthen data storytelling and expand self-service analytics. The Tourism Domain team delivers nationally significant evidence products and works with policy teams, industry partners, destination management organisations, Māori tourism stakeholders, government agencies and international organisations to provide trusted, relevant and user-focused tourism insights.

Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and Experience Required

We are looking for a skilled analyst who combines strong technical capability with a passion for helping people understand and use data. You will ideally bring:

• Significant experience in data management, analysis and visualisation.
• Strong experience using R and/or Python to manage, transform and analyse data.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with complex datasets.
• Experience developing dashboards, reports and interactive analytical products using Power BI or similar tools.
• Three or more years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience designing user-focused data products that improve accessibility, usability and decision-making.
• Experience gathering stakeholder requirements and translating them into practical analytical solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and conveying the messaging tailored to the audience.
• A commitment to innovation, continuous improvement and delivering high-quality customer-focused products.
• The legal right to live and work in New Zealand and the ability to satisfy MBIE's security clearance requirements if required.

Highly desirable but not essential:

• Experience working with tourism, economic, regional or government data.
• Knowledge of New Zealand's tourism sector, public policy environment or official statistics system.
• Experience developing public-facing dashboards, websites or data products.
• Experience with Power Automate, SharePoint or other modern information management and collaboration tools.

About MBIE - Ētahi kōrero mō MBIE:

MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders. We do this by working with others to create an environment that supports businesses to be more productive and internationally competitive, enables all New Zealanders to participate in the economy through improved job opportunities and by working to ensure quality housing is more affordable.

People are at the heart of our mahi, our way of working is guided by our values which shape our behaviours.

Mahi Tahi - Better Together Māia - Bold and brave Pae Kahurangi - Build our Future Pono Me Te Tika - Own It.

Our aspirations are echoed in our Māori identity - Hīkina Whakatutuki - which broadly means 'lifting to make successful'. MBIE recognises the partnership founded under Te Tiriti o Waitangi between Māori and the Crown and is committed to giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We will do this through enduring, meaningful and effective partnerships with iwi, Māori, other Māori groups/organisations and the Crown, as this is critical to enable economic and social development, both for Māori and for wider Aotearoa New Zealand.

We are committed to continuing to partner with iwi in order to find new sustainable solutions to address long standing systemic and cross-cutting issues facing Māori and wider Aotearoa New Zealand and we are also committed to identifying opportunities for iwi to lead and creating an enabling environment for iwi to leverage these opportunities.

Application deadline: Applications close on 20th of October 2026.