Supply Execution Manager (Chapter Lead)

Air New Zealand Limited; Auckland; On-site; NZD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Staff Travel

FlexiLeave

Learning culture & development

Wellbeing support

Employee discounts

Job summary

Air New Zealand Limited in Auckland is seeking a Chapter Lead Supply Execution to steer short-term material planning and execution that keeps maintenance operations safe and efficient. You will lead a high-performing team, coordinate with Supply Chain, Engineering, Maintenance and Procurement to resolve constraints and improve execution.

The role emphasizes continuous improvement, agile collaboration across matrixed teams, and building capability to strengthen material availability and aircraft

Qualifications

• Extensive experience across Supply Execution, Supply Operations, Materials Planning, or Supply Chain Planning.
• Proven success leading, coaching, and developing high performing teams in fast-paced settings.
• Strong knowledge of material planning, inventory management, and disruption management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Supply Execution capability to support safe, efficient maintenance operations.
• Coach and inspire a high-performing team across the Chapter.
• Lead material support through MOC with clear coordination and prioritisation.
• Build AOG and disruption management capability to anticipate and recover from time-critical events.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to resolve constraints and improve outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement with data-driven decisions and digital tools.

Skills

Supply chain leadership

Materials planning

Inventory management

Operational excellence

Agile / matrixed environments

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

Kia ora!

Lead the capability that keeps our maintenance operations moving and helps ensure our aircraft are ready to fly.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead the Supply Execution Chapter within Air New Zealand Tech Ops. You'll shape the people, processes, and operational disciplines that connect Supply Chain with maintenance operations, ensuring the right materials are available at the right time to support aircraft maintenance, component repair, and operational performance.

With a strong reputation for culture, service, and innovation, Air New Zealand is consistently recognised as one of New Zealand's most attractive employers. As Chapter Lead Supply Execution, you'll work across Supply Chain, Engineering, Maintenance, Procurement, and operational teams, building a high performing capability that strengthens material execution, responds to operational disruption, and improves aircraft availability.

About the role

• Lead the Supply Execution capability, ensuring short term material planning and execution supports safe, efficient maintenance operations
• Coach, develop, and inspire a high performing team, building capability, consistency, and operational excellence across the Chapter
• Lead material support through the Maintenance Operations Centre (MOC), providing clear coordination, prioritisation, and decision making for operational requirements
• Build and mature AOG and material disruption management capability, strengthening how Supply Chain anticipates, responds to, and recovers from time critical events
• Partner closely with Supply Chain, Procurement, Engineering, Maintenance, and operational teams to resolve material constraints and improve execution outcomes
• Drive continuous improvement across Supply Execution through stronger processes, operating rhythms, digital tools, performance measures, and data driven decision making.

What we're looking for

• Extensive experience across Supply Execution, Supply Operations, Materials Planning, or Supply Chain Planning within a complex operational environment
• Proven success leading, coaching, and developing high performing teams operating in fast paced, operational settings
• Strong knowledge of material planning, inventory management, and supply chain execution, including managing shortages, disruption, and competing priorities
• Demonstrated experience improving operational planning, execution processes, and supply chain performance
• Experience working across matrixed or Agile environments with stakeholders across Supply Chain, Engineering, Maintenance, Procurement, and Operations
• A collaborative leader who thrives under pressure, makes sound decisions, builds trusted relationships, and champions continuous improvement.

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

Why join Air New Zealand?

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 your whānau
• FlexiLeave, giving you the option to purchase up to four additional weeks of leave each year
• A learning culture with development opportunities that help you continue to grow your career
• Wellbeing support through our Wellbeing Hub and Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to a wide range of employee discounts across travel, retail, health, banking, and lifestyle providers.

Ready for take-off?

If you're ready to lead a critical operational capability, develop exceptional people, and shape how Air New Zealand responds to the fast changing demands of aircraft maintenance, we'd love to hear from you. Bring your operational leadership, problem solving expertise, and passion for continuous improvement to help build the future of Supply Execution at Air New Zealand.

Applications close Monday 19th October 2026.

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."