Research and Data Analyst

Tēnei tūranga – About the role

The Research and Data Analyst supports the Business & Consumer branch providing analysis to help shape the branch strategic direction and deliver tangible outcomes, especially supporting the Digital Business Enablement team, with a primary focus on eInvoicing and Consumer Data Rights programmes of work.

The Research and Data Analyst:

• Delivers high-quality data analysis, reporting, and insights that inform decision-making and enhance performance.
• Applies critical thinking and scenario analysis to navigate complex challenges and support strategic goals.
• Leads end-to-end research projects, including survey design, deployment, analysis, and presentation of findings.
• Ensures that all insights and recommendations are evidence-based and aligned with business needs.

Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role

Personal specifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification preferred and/or comparable experience.
• A good understanding of data and insights practices.
• Highly experienced in MS Excel and Power BI and have experience creating dashboards and reports.
• Able to manipulate large datasets design and develop smart business solutions from complex data sources.
• Able to proactively identify key relationships and possesses an ability to quickly establish and build strong working relationships, through trust and credibility.
• Excellent communication skills. A large part of this role is understanding the needs of our stakeholders and communicating complex ideas to them. Therefore, being confident and able to clearly communicate complex ideas in a way that engages them is a key skill required for this role.
• Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables

Critical measures of success

• Data management and analysis including solving complex problems with efficient and reproducible analytics; statistical/econometric modelling; data visualisation; and statistical/econometric modelling, inference and forecasting/prediction in domains such as complex surveys and time series.
• Applies appropriate analytical methodologies, frameworks and methods of analysis to identify problems.
• Uses a range of evidence including data, research and other information from a range of sources to provide the foundation for evidence-based analysis.
• Research, data and analytics are delivered in the most efficient way and the information provided is accurate and trusted.
• The ability to foster an open, collaborative environment that encourages quality, innovation, and ongoing knowledge sharing.
• Contribute to and support others in the development of policy advice, briefings, research issues for internal clients, Ministers, Cabinet, Parliamentary Select Committees and other stakeholders.
• Continually looks to improve and enhance the reporting available to help drive insights.
• Provides information to key stakeholders in a regular and ad hoc basis to aid thinking and inform decision-making.

Technology outcomes

• Design and deliver highly usable solutions focused on meeting stakeholder needs while ensuring high levels of data integrity and always with data analytics best practice.
• Find effective ways to extract and manipulate the data available to you and reinvent this into meaningful information which empowers our business users and the wider MBIE.
• Deliver easily consumed solutions, with a focus on continuous improvement of the utility of the Ministry’s data.
• Along with the wider team, adding value to the Ministry by genuinely taking ownership of the solutions it designs and delivers.

Leadership

• Provide intellectual leadership by bringing new ideas, techniques and knowledge to analytical discussions and supports strategic conversations in the domain area.

Work management

• Uses data management techniques to effectively carry out work.
• Contributes to meetings, including where matters are sensitive, or require solutions.
• Seeks guidance where required and uses initiative to highlight risks and coordinate work with others.
• Prioritises the business needs for the development and implementation of new reporting requirements as and where needed.

Communication and relationship management

• Build strong relationships with managers and teams/managers across MBIE.
• Participates as an active team member and contributes knowledge and expertise needed to achieve team and MBIE outcomes.
• Collaborates with the wider B&C branch to ensure relevant information is shared across teams.

Wellbeing, health and safety

• Displays commitment through actively supporting all safety and wellbeing initiatives.
• Ensures own and others' safety at all times.
• Complies with relevant safety and wellbeing policies, procedures, safe systems of work and event reporting.
• Reports all incidents/accidents, including near misses in a timely fashion.
• Is involved in health and safety through participation and consultation.

Tō tūranga i roto i te Manatū – Your place in the Ministry

The Research and Data Analyst position reports into the Manager Strategic Business Operations within the Business and Consumer branch. The branch sits within Te Whakatairanga Service Delivery.

More information about MBIE’s structure

To mātou aronga – What we do for Aotearoa New Zealand

Hīkina Whakatutuki is the te reo Māori name for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Hīkina means to uplift. Whakatutuki means to move forward, to make successful. Our name speaks to our purpose – Grow New Zealand for All.

To Grow New Zealand for All, we put people at the heart of our mahi (work). Based on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi, we are committed to upholding authentic partnerships with Māori.

• As agile public service leaders, we use our breadth and experience to navigate the ever-changing world.
• We are service providers, policy makers, investors and regulators. We engage with diverse communities, businesses and regions. Our work touches on the daily lives of New Zealanders.
• We grow opportunities (Puāwai), guard and protect (Kaihāpai) and innovate and navigate towards a better future (Auaha).

Ngā matatau – Our competencies

Cultivates innovation We create new and better ways for the organisation to be successful by challenging the status quo generating new and creative ideas and translating them into workable solutions.

Nimble learning We are curious and actively learn through experimentation when tackling new problems by learning as we go when facing new situations and challenges.

Customer focus We build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions by listening and gaining insights into the needs of the communities we serve and actively seeking and responding to feedback.

Decision quality We make quality and timely decisions that shape the future for our communities and keep the organisation moving forward by relying on an appropriate mix of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgement to make valid and reliable decisions.

Action oriented We step up, taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with purpose, urgency and discipline by taking responsibility, ownership and action on challenges, and being accountable for the results.

Collaborates We connect, working together to build partnerships with our communities, working collaboratively to meet shared objectives by gaining trust and support of others; actively seeking the views, experiences, and opinions of others and by working co-operatively with others across MBIE, the public sector and external stakeholder groups.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

As an agency of the public service, MBIE has a responsibility to contribute to the Crown meeting its obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti).

Meeting our commitment to Te Tiriti will contribute towards us realising the overall aims of Te Ara Amiorangi – Our Path, Our Direction, and achieve the outcome of Growing New Zealand for All.

The principles of Te Tiriti – including partnership, good faith, and active protection – are at the core of our work.

MBIE is committed to delivering on our obligations as a Treaty partner with authenticity and integrity and to enable Māori interests. We are committed to ensuring that MBIE is well placed to meet our obligations under the Public Service Act 2020 (Te Ao Tūmatanui) to support the Crown in strengthening the Māori/Crown Relationship under the Treaty and to build MBIE’s capability, capacity and cultural intelligence to deliver this.

Mahi i roto i te Ratonga Tūmatanui – Working in the public service

Ka mahitahi mātou o te ratonga tūmatanui kia hei painga mō ngā tāngata o Aotearoa i āianei, ā, hei ngā rā ki tua hoki. He kawenga tino whaitake tā mātou hei tautoko i te Karauna i runga i āna hononga ki a ngāi Māori i raro i te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ka tautoko mātou i te kāwanatanga manapori. Ka whakakotahingia mātou e te wairua whakarato ki ō mātou hapori, ā, e arahina ana mātou e ngā mātāpono me ngā tikanga matua o te ratonga tūmatanui i roto i ā mātou mahi.

In the public service we work collectively to make a meaningful difference for New Zealanders now and in the future. We have an important role in supporting the Crown in its relationships with Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi. We support democratic government. We are unified by a spirit of service to our communities and guided by the core principles and values of the public service in our work.

What does it mean to work in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Public Service?(external link) — Te Kawa Mataaho The Public Service Commission