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Air New Zealand is on an accelerated journey to deliver the best flying experience on Earth. Our purpose is to enrich our country by connecting New Zealanders to each other and New Zealand to the world. As part of our brand promise, we embrace Manaaki – taking care further than any other airline and creating meaningful experiences that empower and connect. 

To support this vision, we’re looking for a permanent Delivery Enablement Specialist (Project and Programme delivery and Change Management) to join our Delivery Enablement team. This role is about more than managing plans and timelines; were after someone who thrives in agile environments and brings a practical, outcome-focused mindset to delivery. Youll work across Tribes and Squads, helping navigate complexity and drive momentum by unblocking barriers and supporting the team to deliver value early and often. 

You’ll lead cross-functional initiatives that span teams, vendors, and business areas, managing interdependencies and creating alignment to ensure delivery success. Youll need to be comfortable flexing across traditional delivery disciplines and bring the confidence to lead in fast-paced, ambiguous environments where the path forward isn’t always obvious. 

Key Roles and Responsibilities:   

• Lead delivery activities for a project or initiative to support the timely delivery of value, by being an expert problem solver you will unblock constraints, leverage the full potential model to drive the outcomes.  

• Relentlessly manages to milestone delivery, unblocking the system where required. 

• Manages complex initiatives with diverse stakeholders across locations, time zones, and delivery methods 

• Identify, track, and mitigate risks and issues in collaboration with relevant stakeholders.  

• Develop and maintain effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to ensure stakeholders requirements are balanced and to manage stakeholder expectations.  

• Builds a culture where the team works together toward shared goals. 

• Monitor and analyse teams’ throughput, identifying opportunities to improve delivery accuracy and efficiency. 

• Actively ensure the safety and security of all people, assets, systems & procedures engaged in or associated with own area of responsibility or otherwise under own control or influence.  

• Works within the governance structures in place, will be actively involved with vendors during RFI/RFP and resulting contractual arrangements 

• Experience in Agile Project methodologies.  

Experience & Skills:   

• 10 years’ experience leading and delivering technology and business outcomes in a corporate environment.  

• Significant experience leading large-scale organisational transformation efforts.   

• Thinks critically to assess uncertainty and find clear solutions to complex situations. 

• Experience across the traditional project delivery areas of Change Management, Project Management and Business Analysis with the ability to apply these skills to meet the value goals.  

• Strong influencing and engagement skills that enable you to work with diverse stakeholder groups while managing expectations.  

• Active listener and clear communicator, enabling effective technical discussions to closure.  

• Experience in aviation, transport, logistics, or operations a plus.   

What’s in it for you? 

This is a rare permanent opportunity to help shape how Air New Zealand delivers complex, cross-functional initiatives in a dynamic environment. You’ll work with passionate teams who are focused on continuous improvement, value delivery, and making a real impact across the organisation. If you’re looking for variety, meaningful work, and a role where you can truly influence how things get done… we’d love to hear from you. 

To be considered for this opportunity, please apply with an updated CV. Applications cannot be received via email. This role closes 11:59pm, Thursday 10 July 2025.

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. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.

If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

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."