Strategic Business Analyst

Maritimenz; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 141,000 - 172,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Income Protection

Life Insurance

Job summary

Maritime NZ is seeking a Strategic Business Analyst to work with senior leaders across the organisation, shaping complex problems into future-state solutions that guide investment and transformation. You will bring structured thinking and a collaborative approach to identify opportunities for lasting impact.

You will engage executives to understand challenges, explore options, and develop clear strategies, operating models and investment plans that align with NZ waterways guardianship and

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading or shaping complex organisational or enterprise-wide change initiatives.
• Ability to frame ambiguous issues, test assumptions and identify root causes.
• Experience undertaking strategic analysis to inform enterprise-level decisions.
• Experience designing how structures, capabilities, processes and technology work together to deliver strategy.
• Ability to identify patterns and opportunities across large systems.
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and supporting strategic decision-making.
• Strong written communication to prepare high-quality strategic advice.

Responsibilities

• Engage with executives and senior leaders to understand challenges and options.
• Define strategic pathways, operating models and investment approaches to enable change.
• Provide insights to guide investment decisions and transformation outcomes.
• Frame problems clearly and guide investment and change initiatives across the organisation.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic analysis

Change management

Problem framing

Systems thinking

Stakeholder influence

Written communication

Job description

Our Vision: Preventing Harm. Saving Lives. Securing our Future

We play a key role in the guardianship of New Zealand waterways. We’re bringing together our aroha, work and skills to achieve our outcomes of sustainable supply chains and sectors, safe people and operations, secure ports and ships, and clean seas and waterways.

Our values are about who we are as individuals and the behaviours we expect from each other at Maritime NZ.

Care | Kia Tika - We care for each other and do the right thing

Courage | Kia Māia - We are brave, capable and confident

The CE Office, Strategy and People Group brings together strategy, governance, performance, and organisational capability to set direction and support delivery across Maritime NZ.

Within this, the Organisational Transformation function ensures our people, systems, and processes evolve together as we deliver our strategy. It brings together multidisciplinary teams to design and roll out new policies, practices, and digital tool, and to support leaders and teams to adopt new ways of working.

Te tūnga | The role

As the Strategic Business Analyst you will be working with senior leaders across Maritime New Zealand, you'll draw on your experience in problem definition and strategic analysis to help define complex problems, shape future-state solutions, and provide the insight needed to guide investment and organisational change that delivers lasting impact.

You'll work across a broad range of organisational priorities, bringing structure and clarity to complex issues, framing the right problems to solve, identifying opportunities for improvement, and helping shape the investment and transformation decisions that will influence our future.

In this role you'll be engaging with executives, senior leaders and subject matter experts to understand challenges, explore options and develop a clear view of what success looks like. From there, you'll help create the strategic pathways, operating models and investment approaches needed to make change happen.

You'll bring:

• Demonstrated experience leading or shaping complex organisational or enterprise-wide change initiatives
• Proven experience framing ambiguous or complex issues, testing assumptions, identifying root causes and clarifying what needs to be solved
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking capability, with experience undertaking strategic analysis to inform enterprise-level decisions
• Experience designing or reshaping how an organisation's structures, capabilities, processes and technology work together to deliver strategy
• The ability to identify patterns, connections and opportunities across large systems
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and supporting decision-making at a strategic level
• Confidence navigating ambiguity and competing priorities
• Strong written communication skills, including the ability to prepare high-quality strategic advice
• A collaborative approach and the ability to build trusted relationships across diverse teams

Experience within the public sector, transformation programmes, operating model design, business case development or enterprise planning environments would be advantageous.

Maritime NZ recognises and respects te Tiriti o Waitangi and we are committed to working with Māori to build strong, meaningful and enduring relationships to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.

We aim to be a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported with a sense of belonging. We encourage our people to actively contribute to our workplace culture where we all thrive and authentically live our MNZ values.

Upon joining us you’ll receive a full range of benefits including Income Protection & Life Insurance.Check out our full range on our careers page to find out more about why we love working here.

Salary range $140,735 -$171,946 depending on skills and experience + superannuation.

Applications for this role close midnight 26 October2026. Please also note that you must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand to be considered for this role.