Analytics Team Leader

Auckland Transport-Auckland City, Nova Zelândia

Key leadership role within the Data Analytics team:

  • * Champion and advance AT's analytical capability*:

  • * Permanent opportunity, hybrid working options*


There's much more to Auckland Transport (AT) then meets the eye! Ahead of us are some exciting projects and change, from delivery of our transport services to critical infrastructure projects, we employ some of the best innovators, leaders and talent in the game. If delivering worthwhile and meaningful work matters to you and you are you passionate about mentoring and developing analysts we would like to hear from you.

In our Data and Analytics team, we focus on developing insights to help our organisation ensure that Aucklanders have easy and safe journeys.

We believe that starts with a culture where people work together to solve big issues across Auckland Transport

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The opportunity

Developing our analytics capability is key to Auckland Transport's (AT) strategy to move to an Insights Driven Organisation. We want to leverage and have confidence in our information to provide insights and empower decision makers. We are looking for a Team Leader to lead, motivate and empower our Analytics team.

In this key role, you'll lead, motivate and empower the Analytics team, establishing and embedding agile work in a way that builds a strong, constructive culture that is consistent across all teams and delivery squads.

You will act as a point of escalation for team members and assist team to formulate and develop project specific needs as they relate to reporting & analytics and its capability.

Ko koe tēnei | About you

You will be an authentic and empowering people leader, skilled at leading teams, both with direct staff and indirect project teams, for purposes of delivery and development You will have proven experience in overseeing the direction, development, and implementation of business intelligence and self-service reporting strategies ideally using Power BI. Highly analytical, with evaluative and problem-solving abilities, you will have experience of leading or working with data teams in complex organisations.

You will have strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present ideas in a customer centric and user-friendly language, and using your strong leadership and interpersonal skills, you will have the ability to effectively prioritise and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.

Ko wai mātou | About us & Nōu te rourou - What's in it for you?

AT embraces inclusion and belonging and a commitment to building a diverse workplace. To support this, our hybrid working initiative empowers people to work flexibly. This could include flexibility around hours, remote working and job sharing, supported by advanced remote technology. We are also champions of diversity and its important our people bring their full self to work.

We believe in looking after the health, financial and individual wellbeing of our employees and consistently strive to make Auckland Transport a great place to work. We offer a diverse range of benefits to all of our employees, check them out!

This includes:

  • Joining our high performing, diverse team where we'll help you do your thing even better
  • Parental leave on full salary up to 26 weeks (primary carer or partner) while also accruing annual leave and Kiwisaver contributions.
  • Professional memberships, training & development including paid study leave of up to 10 days
  • Health and Wellbeing benefits including free access to Groovwellbeing app and support tools
  • Technology Benefits with range of discounts at some high-profile technology retailers where you get access to commercial pricing and corporate discounts.

Our values are woven into all we do at AT. We recently refreshed our values as a team to ensure they were meaningful and truly reflect how we behave with one another. Welcoming talent with aligned values is important to us, our values that guide every encounter are: Manaakitanga - We care full stop, Tiakitanga - Safe with us, Whanaungatanga - We connect and Auahatanga - Better, bolder, together.