Job Description
Kia ora!
At Air New Zealand, we’re known for our culture, service and innovation, and we’re on a mission to become the world’s leading digital airline. Behind the scenes, our corporate teams are enabling performance, shaping strategy, and building a future-fit business, and we're looking for an Enterprise Value and Performance (EVP) Lead to sit at the heart of this. This EVP Lead will guide and evolve our company QBR process, support strategic prioritisation, and strengthen how we implement our strategy.
You’ll play a central role in embedding our Full Potential operating model—ensuring we learn quickly, prioritise with discipline, and execute with focus. You’ll help ensure decisions are informed by high-quality insight—turning data into actionable, strategic choices. More specifically, you’ll be responsible for facilitating the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) process, supporting group performance management, and building the capability and culture of the QBR centre of excellence (CoE).
Responsibilities:
- Supporting the delivery of our Air NZ Kia Mau strategy by ensuring alignment of activity across the airline
- Facilitating an effective and efficient company-wide QBR process
- Enabling the Leadership Squad to prioritise confidently based on a deep understanding of strategy and performance
- Supporting leaders across the airline define clear, outcome-focused objectives aligned with strategy
- Injecting global best practice and feedback to continuously improve the process
- Building a strong, inclusive team culture within the CoE and across the business
You’ll thrive in this role if you:
- Have a sharp strategic mindset and turn long-term vision into clear, shorter-term priorities
- Can gain clarity from complexity
- Communicate with clarity and influence, bringing data to life through storytelling
- Build trust quickly and influence across a wide range of stakeholders
- Lead with confidence and a focus on outcomes
- Take a proactive approach to continuous improvement
- Understand the essence of agile operating models
You’ll bring experience in areas such as:
- Strategy development and execution
- Financial modelling and quantitative analysis
- Portfolio management and prioritisation
- Process excellence and continuous improvement
What we can offer you
- A high-impact leadership role with visibility across the airline
- The opportunity to shape how strategy comes to life in a complex, fast-moving environment
- A supportive, purpose-driven team culture where your ideas and leadership will be valued
- Access to world-class travel benefits and flexible working options
- The chance to be part of a globally recognised brand with a uniquely Kiwi spirit.
If you are a senior leader who is passionate about enabling performance, shaping strategy, and creating clarity in a fast-moving environment, we'd love to hear from you. Applications close on 11/07/2025.
Please note that while we will provide an outcome to every applicant, due to the high volume of applications we will only organise conversations with shortlisted candidates.
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. 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."
