Delivery Enablement Specialist

Kia ora!

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. 

Your Impact Starts Here

To help lead the way were looking for a Delivery Enablement Specialist to join our Delivery Enablement team on a contract basis. Youll be right in the mix of our most critical cross-functional initiatives helping set direction build momentum and create the conditions for delivery success. This isnt a role for spectators. Its for someone who wants to get stuck in lead with clarity and make things happen. 

Were looking for a T-shaped professional with deep delivery expertise change management experience and a proven ability to lead and land outcomes at scale. Youll bring experience working across large complex programmes - someone who has delivered in fast-moving enterprise environments. Youll take a hands-on roll your sleeves up approach to delivery guiding teams through complexity breaking down work and working with stakeholders to make sure outcomes are achieved issues are unblocked and progress sticks. You wont just set the plan youll help bring it to life. 

You will champion and leverage our agile operating rhythm to deliver outcomes via large-scale cross-functional initiatives. This will require you to manage complex dependencies between teams third parties and across the organisation to ensure end-to-end delivery success. 

Key Roles and Responsibilities: 

• Drive delivery planning value decomposition and forecasting for a complex programme or initiative. By being an expert problem solver you will unblock constraints leveraging the Air NZ enterprise agile delivery model to drive the outcomes. 

• Relentlessly manage the critical path risks and issues unblocking end to end delivery where required. 

• Work closely with initiative sponsors and leaders to ensure change adoption is embedded and well-supported. 

• Manage diverse external stakeholders and vendors across locations time zones and delivery methods. 

• Develop and maintain effective relationships with key internal stakeholders to ensure business outcomes and expectations are met. 

• Guide teams in optimising flow sequencing and governance.  

• 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 in your area of responsibility. 

Experience & Skills: 

• Proven experience in agile programme portfolio or product delivery (scaled or multi-squad environments). 

• Deep understanding of delivery methods (agile hybrid and traditional) and when to flex them. 

• 10 years experience leading and delivering large-scale technology and business outcomes in a corporate environment. 

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

• Strong facilitation 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.  

• Confidence engaging with sponsors finance partners and vendors with a focus on value risk and change. 

• A collaborative growth-oriented mindset and ability to coach mediate and guide without needing to control. 

Why this role 

This is a rare opportunity to help shape how Air New Zealand delivers its most complex work in a way thats practical purposeful and people-first. Youll join a passionate team focused on continuous improvement delivery momentum and real-world outcomes. If you love making things happen and want to be part of something meaningful wed love to hear from you. 

This role closes Sunday 30 November at 11:59pm.

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.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract