Upper Hutt Management Job Listings

Senior Programme Manager 64074471758466110

Trademe

Senior Programme Manager

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Programme Manager to join our client on a full-time contract basis in Wellington, with the contract running through to 31 March 2025. **What We're Offering:** * Immediate Start * Fixed Term Until 31 March 2025 * Wellington-Based **About the Role:** As a **Senior Programme Manager**, you will lead the initial phase of a key transformation programme, focused on upgrading multiple systems - including critical platforms such as payroll. You will also play a vital role in supporting the development of our Enterprise Risk Management Programme. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to meaningful change across multiple workstreams in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. **Key Responsibilities:** * Lead and manage the initial phase of multiple technology system upgrades * Oversee delivery of large, complex technology programmes * Support development and implementation of the ERM Programme * Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure transparency, alignment, and delivery of outcomes * Provide high-quality documentation and reporting throughout the programme lifecycle **What We're Looking For:** * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field * Proven senior-level experience managing multiple technology implementation programmes * Demonstrated success delivering large, complex programmes * SAP experience is a plus but not essential * Strong documentation and communication skills * Ability to work collaboratively within a high-performing team * Confidence and credibility when engaging with stakeholders at all levels Your proven experience in similar roles and ability to influence across all levels of an organisation will be key to your success in this position. Ready to step into a critical leadership role in a transformative programme? Apply now to join us in shaping future-ready systems and enterprise capabilities.

Wellington, New Zealand

Negotiable Salary

Manager Business Technology Operations63995661530113111

Trademe

Manager Business Technology Operations

Porirua City is a great place to live, work and raise a family, with significant growth and opportunities. We're upgrading our infrastructure, connecting our city and managing how we grow. We're developing and creating a resilient, liveable city for our future generations and need skilled people like you to help make it all happen. Our Business Technology Group provides and manages Porirua City Council's computing environment, IT infrastructure and information management. This includes managing PCs, laptops, telephony, software and applications, networks, record keeping, official information and security. About the role We're looking for a dynamic Manager Business Technology Operations to lead a team and keep Council's systems running reliably, securely, and efficiently. This is a fixed term role until 30 September 2026. This role is about more than technology—it's about people. You'll inspire and mentor a talented team, deliver outstanding customer-focused service, and introduce new solutions that make a real difference for our organisation. What you'll do * Lead and support a high-performing operations team. * Oversee day-to-day IT systems, networks, and infrastructure. * Drive new technology projects and improvements. * Provide trusted advice to the CIO and senior leaders. * Build positive relationships across Council and beyond. About you If you're ready to lead with purpose and create real impact through technology, we'd love to hear from you. You'll need to show us that you have: * Strong leadership skills with a people-first approach. * Proven IT operations management experience in an Information and Cyber Security, Information Technology, Service Desk Management or Operational Delivery role * Broad knowledge of IT Systems, Infrastructure and Information Security principles and practices. * Broad understanding of IT principles associated with networks, internet, email, operating systems, firewalls, VPNs, databases, AV management and intrusion detection. * Ability to communicate technical concepts and align them with business goals and objectives. * Great communication and relationship-building skills. * A balance of strategic thinking and hands-on know-how. * A high level of resilience and the ability to cope with change What you need to do now Come and join our business Technology team, shape the future of technology at Council, and make a real impact on how we deliver for our community. Please contact Mukul Govan on 04 237 1447 for more information. Porirua City embraces and values diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications by people from all backgrounds and are a member of Diversity Works. If you have any support or access requirements during our recruitment process, please let us know when you apply, and we'll do our best to get you sorted. You will need to apply via our careers centre: www.poriruacity.govt.nz/careers. To find out more about working for Porirua City Watch this video Applications close on Thursday 23 October 2025.

Porirua, New Zealand

Negotiable Salary

Trademe

Engineering Manager

This is a pivotal leadership role within the Jobs Leadership Team (JLT). You will play a critical role in translating strategy into a clear, actionable technical roadmap, fostering a culture of technical excellence, and continuously elevating our engineering practices to meet the evolving demands of the market and our users. **What success looks like role:** In this role, your success will be defined by your ability to strategically lead and deliver, with a clear focus on commercial outcomes and long-term impact. You will be highly successful if: * **You're a Strategic Technical Leader:** Own and drive the technical roadmap for Jobs, aligning with business strategy to position Trade Me for future innovation and market leadership. Your decisions will directly contribute to our competitive advantage and sustained growth. * **You Elevate Engineering Practices Speed to Value:** Empower the team to deliver high-quality products that create measurable value. You'll champion the evolution of our engineering practices, increasing agility for faster, more efficient feature delivery. * **You Ensure Platform Health and Scalability:** Balance new product development with strategic maintenance, ensuring the long-term health, reliability, and scalability of our technical platforms. Proactively identify and mitigate risks. * **You Foster a High-Performing, Empowered Team:** Cultivate an engaged, motivated, and continuously growing team. Through coaching, mentoring, and clear communication, you'll build a resilient team capable of tackling complex challenges. * **You Drive Cross-Functional Alignment and Collaboration:** Build strong relationships across product, design, data, and other engineering teams. Your ability to align technical efforts will ensure holistic solutions that drive strategic outcomes for Trade Me. * **You Champion Technical Excellence and Innovation:** Lead in advocating for and implementing best-in-class engineering practices, architectural decisions, and innovative solutions that enhance our product and capabilities. * **You Proactively Manage Risk and Dependencies:** Anticipate and address technical risks, dependencies, and challenges, ensuring smooth project delivery and maintaining system integrity **What you will bring to our team:** * **Experienced Practitioner (10+ years):** Deep understanding of architecture, design patterns, and modern engineering practices. Proven track record delivering complex, strategic technical initiatives in agile environments. * **People Leadership (5+ years):** Successfully led, mentored, and developed medium-to-large engineering teams, achieving strategic objectives and fostering continuous improvement. * **Technical Breadth and Depth:** Experience across various technologies and architectures. Ability to collaborate with technical leaders and PSEs to establish high-impact architecture and practices. * **Customer-Centric Focus:** Passion for creating exceptional customer experiences, understanding technology's direct impact on user value. * **Strategic Mindset:** Ability to feed into overall strategy, build clear technical vision for Jobs, define plans, and inspire diverse teams. Anticipates future needs. * **Results-Oriented and Commercial Acumen:** Understands business context, translates technical decisions into commercial impact, and delivers measurable value. * **Collaborative and Influential:** Excels at building alignment with teams and stakeholders, influencing decisions, and driving consensus toward strategic goals. * **Strong Communication and Storytelling:** Articulates complex technical concepts clearly to all audiences, influences stakeholders, and celebrates achievements. * **Problem-Solving and Decision Making:** Strong analytical skills, makes sound, data-informed decisions under pressure, even in ambiguous environments. We know some candidates can be reluctant to apply for roles if they feel they don't 'tick all the boxes'. If you're excited about this opportunity, we'd still really like to hear from you so please send us your resume and a short cover note outlining the "Why". Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.

Wellington, New Zealand

Negotiable Salary

Trademe

Head of Technology

We are seeking an aspirational IT leader looking to make their mark and lead technology change within the IT Services department and across Massey University.  Mō wai mātou | About Us Massey University is a world-leading institution across many academic disciplines and research fields. Our research is distinctive in its connection to communities and industry. Working collaboratively across disciplines and locations, we solve national and global challenges through fundamental, applied, and interdisciplinary research, while also enriching culture and the arts. A new CIO has recently joined Massey, providing strategic leadership and vision for a modernised IT function prepared for a changing future in higher education. A new operating model has been designed and implemented. The CIO is building a talented, energetic, and forward-thinking senior leadership team to drive the University’s digital transformation. This is a full-time role. While the team is based in Palmerston North, the position can be based at our Wellington campus. Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this Role The Head of Technology leads the delivery of the core technology services that underpin all digital and IT services used by staff and students. You’ll advise the CIO on IT strategy and lead implementation of strategic improvement programmes. You’ll oversee several technology teams responsible for the full lifecycle of IT services (design, build, procure, evaluate, deploy, support, maintain, improve, retire), while contributing to the technology roadmap. A key part of the role will be optimising the mix of on-premises, cloud, and vendor-provided services to deliver the best value and performance. You’ll be accountable for ensuring high-quality technology services that meet the current and future needs of the University and delivering transformation initiatives in line with overall IT strategy. Āu Mahi | What You Will Do  • Lead the delivery of technology services that meet defined organisational needs. • Coordinate technology strategies to adopt common approaches that benefit the University. • Provide expert advice and direction in your area of specialisation. • Identify and assess new and emerging technologies, products, services, and methods. • Align technology strategy with the University’s business mission and processes, documenting this using architectural models. • Influence stakeholders to achieve outcomes that deliver mutual benefit. • Drive performance by developing individuals and teams to meet agreed objectives. • Support employee engagement, wellbeing, and new ways of working. Ko koe tēnei | Who You Are  You’ll bring the following experience and qualifications: • A tertiary qualification in IT or business management, or equivalent extensive industry experience. • Certification in IT Service Management at practitioner or manager level. • Recent experience in a senior IT leadership role – either as CIO/CTO/CDO of a mid-sized function, or as a direct report to one in a larger organisation. • At least 12 years’ experience in IT roles, including deep expertise in IT infrastructure management. • Experience delivering and operating technology services through a blend of internal, cloud, and vendor/partner models. • Proven success in leading large-scale technology transformation initiatives. • A strong understanding of strategic issues facing IT departments, ideally in a university or NZ government setting. • Experience in business services and process improvement. Applications will be reviewed as received, and we may interview before the role closes if a preferred candidate is identified. Applications close: 17th August 2025 Interviews will be held: Week of 18th August 2025

Wellington, New Zealand

Negotiable Salary

Trademe

Head of AI and Data

At Trade Me, we're about connecting Kiwi to create the life they want. Whether it's the big things like finding a home, a job, a car or growing their business, or the smaller things, like finding that right bedside table or parting ways with some old stuff. At Trade Me our vision is to be the place where Kiwi look first. As a Senior Leader within the Technology team, your role will be vital in shaping and delivering Trade Me's AI and Data strategy. You will be at the forefront of driving innovation and leveraging data and AI to enhance our platform, improve decision-making, and deliver exceptional value to our customers. You will lead the evolution of our data platforms and enable self-service, define our AI platform strategy and drive AI adoption across Trade Me. **Here is what success looks like:** * AI is successfully driven, embraced and utilised across different businesses, processes, and product offerings, driving strategic impact. * Trade Me has a clear and effective AI platform strategy, with a high level of understanding across the organisation of the opportunities and challenges of AI. * Our data platforms are well-managed and support the needs of the business. And our Data Platform migration is completed and delivers on our vision of Data Self-Service, transforming how the organisation accesses and leverages data. * You'll effectively influence and collaborate with your peers to ensure the right capabilities are delivered to support Trade Me's strategies and product roadmaps. * You are seen as a champion of our values, living these daily. You're creating and fostering a diverse and inclusive environment. * You're driving a lot more innovation and adoption of AI and data in our decision-making. Trade Me is moving at pace. **What you will bring to our team:** * 10+ years in Data/AI related positions * 5+ years in AI * 10+ years of leadership experience * Deep understanding of AI/ML, with the ability to drive AI adoption across the whole organisation (platforms, processes, and product offerings). * Good understanding of Data Platforms (Data pipelines, Data Mesh, Data Warehouses, etc.) * Experience driving transformations (ways of working, etc.) * Experience working in online properties (e-commerce, classifieds portals). * Experience working in agile organisations that move at pace. * Experience articulating and communicating a vision and a strategy * Senior Leadership experience, adept at laying out a vision and direction for the team, building team culture and capability, coaching, and leading the team to deliver great outcomes. * Experience working with diverse stakeholders. A strong leader, with good experience influencing big teams and motivating people, hiring and developing great talent. * A good strategist and creative thinker - commercially astute and easily able to grasp and contribute to our wider business imperatives. * Able to demonstrate an ability to affect meaningful change across an organisation. * Naturally curious, with a demonstrated inclination to try new things. * Energetic and optimistic. * Naturally focused on solutions, and will be good at balancing strong theory with practical application. * A great communicator and team player, able to gain the respect and trust of people of all different skill-sets and levels of seniority **You'll have the best time working at Trade Me, and this is why:** **#Flexibility:** Flexibility means different things to different people and we support you to find what works, including a home office set up and utilities allowance. We value team connection and come together in person on Monday and at least one other day a week. **#Leave:** We support you with leave when you need it, including 5 days of wellness leave each year and 10 days of sick leave from day 1. **#Social:** Nothing beats getting together to have some fun and celebrate our success. Join us in the office on payday for company paid lunches. Regular Friday drinks and nibbles, annual Trade Me company awards, celebrations and more. **#Learning:** Whether it's on the job, formal training, mentoring or something else, you'll grow with us from Day 1. We know some candidates can be reluctant to apply for roles if they feel they don't 'tick all the boxes'. If you're excited about this opportunity, we'd still really like to hear from you so please send us your resume and a short cover note outlining the "Why". Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.

Wellington, New Zealand

Negotiable Salary