Insights Analyst

At the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), we are a future-focused organisation working to grow a healthy, high-performing New Zealand economy. Our diverse range of functions and international reach means real career pathways within MBIE. We underpin this with development and training, and a culture that enables our people to work to their natural best.

Our ICT Contracts, Asset and Relationship Management team sits within the Digital Services and Operations group. Within our team we are proactive in managing the contract lifecycle and the relationships with our technology suppliers. We are taking a different approach to tracking our consumption of technology services with the goal of creating transparency that enable financial sustainability.

As an Insights Analyst in our team, you will be hands on in working with our business, fostering supplier

relationships, and furthering our work on our journey towards actionable and proactive insights.

Combiningknowledge of financials and ICT environments you will use tools like Power BI to tell compelling stories about our ICT spend and savings. You will use tools like R studio to automate ingestion process to make the process more robust and repeatable. This role will require you to be detail focused, flexible, and creative to tailor your reports to your audience by understanding their needs. You will take technical speak and raw data and turn it into something that can quickly and easily be understood by people at all levels within our business.

About you

You will be experienced in data mining, data cleansing, data visuals. You will be expected to build and foster

relationships with not just your team, but internal and external stakeholders. To succeed in this role, you will need to walk the line between technical expertise and relationship building. You must be an independent thinker who isn’t afraid to explore the data and find new stories to tell. This role will require you to be detail oriented as your work will lead to business decision that can have far reaching implications.

• Good understanding of data and insights practices.
• Excellent relationship management skills, with the ability to communicate appropriately and effectively with the stakeholders at all levels.
• Being able to ask the right questions and find the answers that will help the business generate better business results or know who to work with to be able to elicit the information they need.
• Data visualization – being able to convey information in a meaningful way so stakeholders can make sense of it.
• Design data solutions to test hypotheses.
• Proficient in a range of tools such as Excel, Power BI, DAX, SQL, R Studio and cloud services (Azure or AWS).
• Excellent communication skills with ability to present complex issues in a way that engages the audience.
• If you are interested in being part of an exciting new branch with a fresh, forward-thinking approach, then apply now.
• Applicants must have the right to live and work in New Zealand

MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders.

We do this by working with others to create an environment that supports businesses to be more productive and internationally competitive, enables all New Zealanders to participate in the economy through improved job opportunities and by working to ensure quality housing is more affordable.

People are at the heart of our mahi, our way of working is guided by our values which shape our behaviours.

• Māia– Bold and brave
• Pae Kahurangi – Build our Future

Our aspirations are echoed in our Māori identity – Hīkina Whakatutuki – which broadly means ‘lifting to make successful'.

MBIE recognises the partnership founded under TeTiritio Waitangi between Māori and the Crown and is committed to giving effect to TeTiritio Waitangi. We will do this through enduring, meaningful and effective partnerships with iwi, Māori, other Māori groups / organisations and the Crown, as this is critical to enable economic and social development, both for Māori and for wider Aotearoa New Zealand. We are committed to continuing to partner with iwi in order to find new sustainable solutions to address long standing systemic and cross-cutting issues facing Māori and wider Aotearoa New Zealand and we are also committed to identifying opportunities for iwi to lead and creating an enabling environment for iwi to leverage these opportunities.

When you are ready to apply please send a CV and cover letter telling us why you're the perfect fit for this role.

All applications must be submitted via our online process.

Applications close on 27th of October 2025

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