Senior Commercial Analyst | Wellington City

Job Description

Job title: Senior Commercial Analyst

Role type: Full time preferred, fixed term for six months

Location: Wellington

Salary band & range: D $100,934 to $129,804 depending on skills and experience

About the Role - Kōrero mō te Tūranga

This role supports biosecurity's future investment planning by applying commercial awareness, analytical thinking, and strategic insight. You'll help turn high-level ideas into robust investment plans, using frameworks to analyse, prioritise, and justify decisions. You'll be the hub between border commissioners, cost recovery, and policy teams, ensuring financial perspectives are aligned and investment choices are well-informed.

You'll proactively ask the right questions, challenge assumptions, and work through complex problems with clarity and confidence. Your understanding of operational environments and biosecurity risk will support annual levy planning and strengthen investment rigour. You'll bring together diverse business areas along with your business and commercial acumen to map workflows, identify priorities, and support strategic investment decisions.

Key responsibilities are to:

• Support investment analysis and business case development
• Apply frameworks to assess and rank funding decisions
• Connect financial, policy, and operational perspectives
• Map workflows and identify strategic priorities
• Triage investment ideas and justify decisions
• Ask critical questions to guide planning and prioritisation
• Understand biosecurity risk and operational contexts
• Contribute to annual levy investment planning for cargo and passengers
• Provide commercial and financial insight to shape investment frameworks
• Facilitate collaboration across teams to align investment strategy

About You - Mōu

You bring strong commercial awareness, a strategic mindset, and the confidence to ask the right questions and challenge assumptions. This role suits someone who wants to move beyond monthly reporting and dive deep into operational realities. You understand how financial decisions link to biosecurity outcomes and can work across frameworks, business cases, and investment planning. You're a self-starter with broad experience and a practical approach to solving complex problems.

You will need to:

• Show commercial experience across diverse environments
• Demonstrate confidence in challenging and problem solving
• Ask clear, practical questions to guide decision-making
• Understand operational and biosecurity investment contexts
• Contribute to business case and framework development
• Link financial decisions to tangible biosecurity outcomes
• Work across teams to support investment prioritisation
• Apply analytical thinking to assess spending options
• Bring a strategic and a commercial mindset to investment planning
• Step away from routine financial reporting to explore deeper analysis

About the Team - Mō tō mātou Rōpū

You'll work closely with finance, cost recovery, border commissioners, principal advisers, and policy colleagues across the organisation. The role is fast-paced, collaborative, and focused on real financial outcomes rather than routine reporting. The team works across the country, with many interactions happening online. This is a forward-focused, project-based environment where understanding biosecurity risk and operational realities is key to success.

About MPI - Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua

We're a large organisation with massive scope from the frontline to policy development and beyond.

Benefits of working at MPI - Ngā hua o te mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua

• Additional MPI leave days
• Professional membership reimbursement
• Access to free professional confidential counselling

https://www.mpi.govt.nz/about-mpi/careers/working-mpi/benefits/

Are you ready to make a difference? - Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake?
We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whānau and hāpori.

We aspire to reflect the diverse communities we serve, so we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, and identities. As an organisation, we are committed to making Manatū Ahu Matua Ministry for Primary Industries a great place to work for all.

In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes, and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.

To view the position description and/or apply online, please click “APPLY FOR THIS JOB” or visit the MPI Careers Site. To apply, you must hold the right to work in New Zealand or be eligible to obtain it – click here to find out more about work visa eligibility and options.

Applications close at 11.59pm 30 October 2025  

If you have any questions about the role, please email Sophie.Hallett@mpi.govt.nz 

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