Strategy Manager, Personal Banking

ASB Bank; Auckland; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

ASB Bank is seeking a Strategy Manager to join the Personal Banking Strategy team in Auckland and help solve some of the division's most important business challenges. You will influence strategic decisions, work with senior leaders, and blend market insights, customer understanding, commercial thinking and data analysis to develop practical recommendations that support the division's long-term success.

The role offers exposure to high-impact initiatives, cross-functional collaboration, and

Qualifications

• Proven experience in strategy development, consulting, or solving complex business problems.
• Strong analytical and commercial thinking with ability to turn data into insights.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing capability.
• Ability to work through ambiguity and develop practical strategic recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Support strategic clarity, problem solving, and decision making across Personal Banking.
• Contribute to strategic planning, performance tracking, and reporting.
• Communicate strategic priorities across the business and influence leaders.

Job description

At ASB, we're focused on helping our customers and communities thrive. We're looking for a Strategy Manager to join our Personal Banking Strategy team and help solve some of the division's most important business challenges.

This is an opportunity to influence strategic decisions, work closely with senior leaders, and contribute to the future direction of one of ASB's largest businesses.

Reporting to the Head of Strategy, you'll support strategic clarity, problem solving, and decision making across Personal Banking.

This is a broad role where you'll work on a variety of strategic initiatives, helping leaders understand complex challenges, identify opportunities, and make informed decisions. You'll combine market insights, customer understanding, commercial thinking, and data analysis to develop recommendations that support the division's long-term success.

You'll also play a key role in strategic planning, performance tracking and reporting, and communicating strategic priorities across the business.

Ngā mea kia whai angitū ahau? | What do I need to be successful?

We're looking for someone who enjoys tackling ambiguous challenges and can bring structure, insight, and commercial thinking to complex business problems. You'll be naturally curious, comfortable working with data, and able to connect information from multiple sources to identify opportunities and recommend practical actions.

You'll likely bring experience from a strategy, consulting, professional services, or large corporate environment where you've worked with senior stakeholders and contributed to strategic decision making.

To be successful, you'll bring:

• Proven experience in strategy development, consulting, or solving complex business problems.
• Strong analytical and commercial thinking skills with the ability to turn data into meaningful insights.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing capability.
• The confidence to work through ambiguity and develop practical strategic recommendations.A collaborative approach and the ability to build trusted relationships across all levels of an organisation.

Experience within financial services is beneficial, but not essential. We're equally interested in people who can demonstrate strong strategic thinking, problem-solving capability, commercial acumen, and the ability to influence outcomes through strong relationships and communication.

Te mahi ki ASB | Working for ASB

At ASB, our values are more than just words. They're anchors to who we are and where we've come from. They guide how we work together, how we show up for our customers and communities, and how we shape the future of ASB.

• Kia Manaaki | Care – Care is about lifting our people, customers and communities to reach their potential.
• Kia Māia | Courage – Courage is about doing the right thing even when it feels hard.
• Kia Mahira | Curiosity – Curiosity is about better decision making and applying judgement before we act.

Joining the Personal Banking Strategy team means working on some of ASB's most important opportunities and challenges. You'll partner closely with senior leaders, help shape decisions that impact thousands of customers, and contribute to the future direction of one of New Zealand's leading banks.

We also offer:

• Career growth through training, mentoring and internal opportunities.
• Meaningful benefits like discounted banking, insurance, and parental leave top-up.

Please note that applicants must hold the legal right to work in New Zealand.

Successful candidates will be required to complete pre-employment checks, which may include a Police Check, Credit Check, AML compliance checks, verification of qualifications, and relevant overseas checks if applicable

To serve a diverse community, we need a diverse organisation. We encourage applicants from allbackgrounds who bring unique perspectives and thinking styles that add to the culture andperformance of our team.