Group General Manager System Leadership - Nzta

Group General Manager System Leadership - NZTA

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi (NZTA) is New Zealand's largest safety regulator and a Crown entity with over 2,500 staff.

NZTA's functions include long-term transport planning, investment management, oversight of land transport initiatives and a multi-billion-dollar programme.

They regulate safety and compliance, deliver improvements, maintain the state highway network and provide customer services for transport access and use.

The Group General Manager - System Leadership is a key member of the Executive Leadership team and requires the capacity to lead at a pan-sector, whole-of-system level.

This role is accountable for leading close to 200 staff, through teams with expertise in organisational and sector strategy, policy, planning, analytics, safety, environment and kaupapa Maori.

You will be accountable for providing strategy, policy and thought leadership, informed by research, data, insights and intelligence.

The Group's mahi supports internal clients as well as regional and local government and other stakeholders to innovate, improve and effectively target interventions and investment across our land transport system.

To be credible and effective, you will need to traverse commercial, central and local government strategy, relationships and perspectives.

You will be an integrator capable of synthesising and simplifying complexity to inform long-term direction and medium-term decision making across the land transport network.

You will require proven leadership experience across strategic, policy, economic, financial and people / culture domains, gained within complex organisations and sectors.

Other requirements include :

An engaged people leader, able to develop collaborative, high-performing teams

Capability to think and operate across systems and sectors

Strategy and policy development experience

Ability to lead and understand change impacts, including unintended consequences

Capacity to lead strategic, enduring Crown Maori partnerships

Exceptional communication, influencing and relationship management skills, including with Ministers, Boards, iwi and commercial leaders

Confidential enquiries and applications should be directed to Guy Brew or Vishnu Nair at Ichor Leadership Search by 5.00pm on Monday 6 October 2025.

Contact via email at

• or call +64 4 499 8230.

Seniority level : Executive

Employment type : Full-time

Job function : Management and Manufacturing

Industries : Staffing and Recruiting

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