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Projects Delivery Lead
Powerco

New Plymouth, Taranaki, New Zealand

Permanent

Applications close:

23 Sep 2026

Are you passionate about helping teams deliver complex projects successfully? Do you enjoy developing people, strengthening project practices, and solving delivery challenges? Are you experienced in leading project delivery capability in digital, IT or business transformation?


Overview

About the role


As Projects Delivery Lead, you will lead and develop a team of project management and coordination professionals who support initiatives across Powerco. You will ensure programme and project teams can access capable people, practical delivery frameworks and fit-for-purpose tools that can be adapted to different delivery contexts.


You will draw on experience across a range of project environments, particularly IT and digital, to strengthen delivery capability and help enable reliable delivery of outcomes.


You will partner with programme and project leaders, the PMO, Digital Design & Delivery teams, IT Operations, enabling functions and external suppliers. You will establish and continuously improve project delivery frameworks and toolkits, align practices with the PMO, and ensure change management is considered from the outset as an essential part of successful project delivery.


This is a people and practice leadership role for someone who can balance structure with flexibility, build trusted relationships and influence consistent ways of working across a complex organisation.


Requirements

What you’ll bring

  • Proven experience leading and developing multi-disciplinary teams of project management and coordination professionals.
  • A strong people leadership focus, with experience building capability at both individual and practice levels.
  • Project delivery experience in complex organisational environments, particularly within digital, IT or business transformation contexts.
  • Experience creating or tailoring project delivery frameworks, toolkits and playbooks, with the judgement to balance consistency, accountability and flexibility.
  • A strong understanding of change management as an enabler of sustainable project outcomes, along with familiarity with programme management and continuous improvement approaches.
  • Experience developing and managing effective partnerships with external suppliers of project delivery services.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively with people at all levels.
  • Confidence navigating organisational dynamics, building trust and aligning teams around practical ways of working.
  • A growth mindset, with openness to learning, feedback and continuous improvement.


What we can offer you

What we offer you

  • Positive and supportive team culture and the opportunity to thrive in a genuinely caring and fun environment
  • Loads of flexibility – we embrace hybrid working!
  • All the usual stuff, but way better- 4% KiwiSaver, ability to buy extra leave, paid volunteer days, free fruit in the office, amazing Parental Leave entitlements, free life and medical insurance – Wow!!!
  • As much growth and development as you can take! We are one of the top workplaces to grow your career (2023 LinkedIn Top Companies List for Aotearoa).

Who we are

Our purpose is to connect communities. It's at the heart of everything we do as we serve our customers now and into the future. At Powerco, we're passionate about doing mahi that keeps over 1.1 million customers connected and enables energy choices as we leverage Aotearoa low carbon electricity system and grow our economy towards a net zero 2050 goal.  

 

Applications will be reviewed as they are received, so we encourage interested candidates to apply early as screening may begin before the closing date.


📅 Applications close: Wednesday 23rd September, 2026