Te Tākinatanga | Our Story   

Ko tā Contact e whakapono nei, ko te taiao tonu te taonga nui katoa o te ao.

Koinei mātou e whai atu nei kia mahue atu i a mātou tētahi ao hauora ake, tēnā i te ora i kuhu ai mātou.

He pakihi whakarato hiko, ipurangi mātou, engari arā kē atu anō ā mātou taha.

Kei te whakawhanake mātou i ā mātou mahi ake, i ngā ara hoki e whai hiko ai a Aotearoa, kei te kōkiri kia tukua te hiko tukurua, ā, kei te whakaputa i tētahi wheako matihiko mō ā mātou kiritaki kāore anō kia kitea i tēnei whenua.

He tīma kotahi mano mātou nō ngā hau e whā, e ngākau nui ana ki ā mātou mahi, e aroha ana tētahi ki tētahi, e ako ngātahi ana, e whakapono tahi ana ki ā mātou tikanga ārahi: mā te manaaki kia toa, ka mana te katoa.

At Contact, we believe home is the most important place in the world. It's all part of our vision to leave Aotearoa better than we found it. We’re a power and broadband company, but we’re so much more than that. We are transforming the ways we mahi, and how Aotearoa is powered, leading the charge on renewable energy and digitising customer journeys in ways not yet seen here. A team of 1000+ from all walks of life who love what we do, look out for each other, and learn from one another every day, we’re stoked to be guided by our tikanga: we touch lives to make life better.

Kōrero mō te tūranga | About the role

In this role, you will be responsible for coordinating and facilitating the planning and scheduling of initiatives to be delivered by our ICT department. This includes managing the supply and demand of resources for ICT delivery, working closely with resource managers, delivery leads, and other key stakeholders to ensure the teams are appropriately sized.

Additionally, you will support the scheduling of initiatives into delivery teams and communicate updates back to relevant stakeholders. Regular reporting and representation to various governance forums and stakeholders will be a key part of your duties. You will help maintain a project toolkit with templates and support materials that aid in project right-sizing, irrespective of delivery methodology, and ensure that new team members are trained in using these tools. Furthermore, you will create and provide input into regular reports on the status of the ICT capital portfolio, and support or facilitate governance forums to update on all core technology projects to the ICT leadership team and other key stakeholders.

Just to make this role even more unique, we need someone with solid experience in financial management with no surprises and providing insights on resource management. This includes making recommendations on where to increase or decrease resources, identifying potential skill shortfalls, and opportunities to realign delivery teams. You will also manage the portfolio capital expenditure, regularly forecasting and reporting on it, and maintain portfolio-level risks, issues, and dependencies, ensuring these are appropriately managed by assigned individuals.

You will form close working relationships with delivery managers to align new work with delivery teams and support the practice manager in identifying areas for process improvement. Your proactive reporting and insights will inform the health of the portfolio, and you will support the head of planning and delivery, delivery leads, and other stakeholders to ensure smooth delivery

Ko wai koe | About you

Ideally you'll have the following:

• Extensive experience in programme or portfolio level management of all governance and reporting aspects of multi-faceted projects.
• Experience in project scheduling and resource management across a range of functions.
• Experience in a multi-disciplinary, multi-site project environment.  E.g. Agile, Iterative, Waterfall etc.
• Superior problem solving, analysis and decision making skills.
• Excellent financial management capability including budgeting and forecasting.
• A high level of integrity, personal and professional standards.
• Relevant professional qualification including project management e.g. Prince2.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to clearly convey information to colleagues and business areas.

We're more interested in your skillset than your location, so we welcome applications from all locations within NZ (however the closer you are to the Wellington office the better). 

There are a bunch of perks to being a permanent Contact kaimahi (employee). Along with great leadership, teammates, development, and growth and progression opportunities, you’ll enjoy flexible working, free health insurance cover, better-than-your-average leave, access to Contact Shares, a ‘Good to be Home’ annual payment toward your home set up & wellbeing, a trail-blazing parental leave policy, discounts on Contact Energy products, and more.

Please note, only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role.
 

APPLICATIONS CLOSE 5PM FRIDAY 28 JUNE 2024

Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet 60% of the criteria, women and those in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they tick every box. We're not about box ticking, so if you think you have what it takes but don't meet everything stated above, please still get in touch. We'd love to kōrero.