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Digital Workforce Manager

Palmerston North, Manawatu-WanganuiFull-time2026-10-30 → 2026-11-03

Core

Lead the management, governance, and continuous improvement of NZTA's Digital resourcing and workforce operations services, including strategic workforce planning and the end-to-end contingent workforce lifecycle.

Role type

Senior workforce management and operations manager

Builds

Strategic workforce plans, governance frameworks, and reliable workforce data/insights for the Digital team

Domain

Public sector transport (NZTA) / Digital workforce operations

Deliverable

dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Workforce strategy and planning, workforce modelling and forecasting, contingent workforce lifecycle management, workforce data analytics, commercial awareness (costs/utilisation), stakeholder partnership, process improvement

Preferred skills

Experience in digital context workforce planning, knowledge of Te Ao Māori and Te Tiriti o Waitangi

Technologies

Workforce management systems, data analytics tools

Responsibilities

Lead workforce strategy and planning initiatives, deliver meaningful workforce reporting and insights, identify workforce trends and risks, partner with Chapter Leads to ensure internal capability fit, lead the end-to-end contingent workforce lifecycle, oversee contractor and consultant engagements, monitor engagement metrics and costs, strengthen workforce processes and controls, support workforce planning and budgeting

Seniority

Senior, hands-on leadership