Job Description

• Influence enterprise investment and change decisions at ELT and governance level

• Lead joined-up portfolio planning, prioritisation, and delivery confidence

• Shape enterprise-wide change as part of the CFO Finance Leadership Team

Shape, Align, and Strengthen Enterprise Priorities

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity

As the Manager – Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO), you will lead NZTA Waka Kotahi’s enterprise hub for portfolio planning, governance, and assurance.

Reporting to the CFO and part of the CFO Finance Leadership Team, you will provide insight, challenge, and advice to the Executive Leadership Team and governance forums. The role helps NZTA make better enterprise decisions by bringing clarity to priorities, trade-offs, sequencing, affordability, and delivery confidence.

You will connect the enterprise Business Change Plan with wider financial and operational planning cycles, helping leaders make joined-up, value for money investment decisions. Working across finance, investment, digital, and business teams, you will support major initiatives delivered through agile, hybrid, and traditional approaches in a complex Crown entity and public service environment.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise Business Change Plan, ensuring alignment to strategy, priorities, resourcing, delivery capacity, and affordability

• Provide strategic advice and challenge on trade-offs, sequencing, risks, benefits realisation, and delivery confidence

• Set clear enterprise guardrails across planning, governance, benefits, risk, resourcing, and prioritisation

• Connect portfolio decisions with financial and operational planning to support joined-up, value for money investment

The Position Description can be viewed here

Ko koe tēnei | About you

What You’ll Bring to the Role:

You will be a credible enterprise leader who can influence at the most senior levels. You will bring strategic thinking, sound judgement, strong financial and commercial acumen, and a business partnering approach that connects enterprise change to priorities, affordability, and delivery confidence.

You will also bring:

• Experience shaping enterprise planning, prioritisation, trade-offs, and investment decisions in complex environments

• Highly developed communication and analytical skills, with the ability to turn complexity into clear executive insight

• Experience supporting significant business and digital initiatives across agile, hybrid, and traditional delivery environments

• A strong business partnering approach, with the ability to connect change decisions to wider planning and financial stewardship

• Credibility, systems thinking, and sound judgement, including the ability to support prioritisation and trade-off decisions

You will also demonstrate, or be willing to develop, an understanding of Te Ao Māori, tikanga and Te Tiriti o Waitangi as they apply in the public sector.

Mō mātou |About Us

Te Ama, Commercial and Corporate, provides business planning, financial, investment, and assurance services for Waka Kotahi and the land transport sector. Our Corporate Capability and Support team delivers shared support services, enables improvement of commercial and corporate business functions, and leads business planning and alignment across Te Ama.

Me pēhea te tuku tono | How to apply:

Please click apply to upload your CV and cover letter detailing your suitability for the role.

Rā Katinga | Applications close:

4 June 2026

For further information, email: careers@nzta.govt.nz

To be considered for this position you must have a legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

Waka Kotahi is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We recognise the importance of diversity and inclusion and are committed to providing a working environment that embraces these values. Please let us know if you need any support or have any access requirements that will help you through the recruitment process.

Please note that we may begin shortlisting as we receive applications. We encourage early applications as we may withdraw the advertising at any time.