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Mō te Tūranga | About the Role:

We’re looking for an experienced senior leader to join our Customer, Product & Services team as Propositions Portfolio Lead. This role can be based in Auckland or Wellington.

Reporting to the Head of Wealth & Insurance - Partnerships and Proposition, you’ll lead the creation, enhancement and end-to-end management of BNZ Wealth and Insurance propositions. You’ll own a clear, insight-led roadmap that balances short-term value with long-term strategic opportunities, aligned to BNZ’s cohort strategy. You’ll draw on your technical product experience in wealth and/or insurance to shape propositions that are well designed, compliant and commercially sound.

This is a key senior leadership role that will help shape the future of Wealth & Insurance at BNZ. You’ll drive the direction for our propositions and play a leading role in how they are designed, developed and brought to life across the bank. Working closely with BNZ’s banking domains, you’ll embed Wealth & Insurance into our core banking propositions, ensuring they show up at the right time for customers and respond to their needs, while delivering strong commercial outcomes. You’ll also lead a talented team, building a collaborative culture with clear ownership and a strong focus on execution.

What you’ll do day-to-day:

• Lead the development and delivery of our wealth and insurance propositions roadmap, making sure each proposition delivers exceptional customer outcomes and a sustainable competitive advantage.

• Prioritise, sequence and deliver initiatives that drive BNZ’s strategic goals

• Partner with internal stakeholders and external partners to bring propositions to life.

• Lead compelling internal and external communications across channels, ensuring messaging is clear, engaging, aligned to strategy and delivered in market with excellence.

• Ensure technical accuracy, governance and regulatory compliance across all proposition content and processes.

• Secure development funding for initiatives and manage your cost centre and team spend within plan.

• Provide clear direction so your team understands desired outcomes, success measures and key milestones, removing blockers and resolving ambiguity so they can deliver efficiently.

• Build a high performing team through coaching, goal setting and development plans, across both your direct team and matrixed ways of working.

About You:

You’re an experienced financial services leader with deep wealth and/or insurance knowledge, strong commercial judgement and a talent for turning customer insight into a focused, achievable roadmap.

You’ll also bring:

• 7+ years’ experience in financial services, including significant wealth and/or insurance experience.

• Strong technical product knowledge in wealth and/or insurance (such as KiwiSaver, investments, life, health or general insurance), including how products are designed, priced, distributed and governed, and the regulatory requirements that shape them.

• An understanding of how wealth and insurance products are distributed at scale, particularly within a banking environment, is advantageous.

• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to build collaborative relationships with and across partnerships.

• Experience creating and managing business cases, including managing spend within budget.

• Extensive experience managing the overall customer experience, including root cause investigation, lead identification, proposition development and conduct management.

• Strong commercial acumen to identify key focus areas and support sound business decisions.

• Senior management experience, with a track record of developing individuals and teams to drive performance.

Nau Mai ki te Pēke o Aotearoa | Come to the Bank of New Zealand

This is an exciting opportunity to join us!  We're bold thinkers who are taking brave steps to create a company that people want to work for, and customers want to bank with. If you're ready to join a fun organisation where we are proud of our culture and how we are helping New Zealander's to 'Find their way', then show your interest by submitting your application - we can't wait to read it. 

Ehara taku toa i te toa takitahi, engari he toa takitini" - Success is not the work of an individual, but the work of many.”

Applications will be reviewed regularly across the advertising period, but we do reserve the right to close applications early.