Insights Analyst

Tēnei tūranga – About the role

The Digital, Data and Insights group leads, connects, and strengthens MBIE's core data and insights, digital and technology capabilities.

The Digital Operations group:

• Manages digital operations across MBIE, including the management and administration of hardware, software, and network infrastructure.
• Maintains enterprise-wide operational integrity.
• Manages the ongoing development of all digital production and pre-production environments.
• Ensures the integrity, performance, and operational readiness of the production environments.
• Manages all MBIE digital and technology vendor / supplier relationships.

The Insights Analyst is an integral role to uncovering ICT commercial insights about business-critical ICT suppliers, such as Datacom and Vodafone, by working with ICT supplier data to provide greater transparency of outsourced ICT costs. This enables:

• A better understanding of ICT supplier cost drivers and to actively manage consumption.
• Independent validation of charges from ICT suppliers, ensuring that the prices are in accordance with the contract and that the volumes enable the identification of actionable insights to manage cost.

The Insights Analyst will use their technical expertise to:

• Source and integrate information on the ICT Business Analytics Platform.
• Work on with others or on their own, initiatives and projects to solve ICT supplier challenges, delivering advice and guidance to teams and stakeholders on ICT supplier data and insights capability and facilitating work and partnerships.
• Use in data interrogation techniques such as data mining and advanced analytics.
• Apply an innovative approach to undertaking ICT supplier statistical and pattern analysis including identification, preparation, and oversight of data mining algorithms.
• Collaborate with colleagues to develop, test, maintain and continuously improve ICT supplier analytical and statistical models.

The role reports to the Insights Manager.

Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role

Personal specifications

• Good understanding of data and insights practices.
• Excellent relationship management skills, with the ability to communicate appropriately and effectively with the stakeholders at all levels.
• Being able to ask the right questions and find the answers that will help the business generate better business results or know who to work with to be able to elicit the information they need.
• Data visualization – being able to convey information in a meaningful way so stakeholders can make sense of it.
• Design data solutions to test hypotheses.
• Sound analytical skills and a desire to learn from others who are more technical.
• Curious and experimental orientation.
• Accessing data, collection and set up of data, understanding and piecing data together.
• Proficient in a range of tools such as Excel, Power BI, DAX, SQL, R Studio and cloud services (Azure or AWS).
• Fosters an open, collaborative environment that encourages quality, innovation, ongoing learning, and knowledge sharing.
• Proactively identifies key relationships and possesses an ability to quickly establish and build strong working relationships.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to present complex issues in a way that engages the audience.
• Proven ability to develop trust and credibility with managers and staff.
• Must be a NZ citizen or hold a residence class visa.

Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables

Delivers quality results that contribute to the Ministry’s outcomes

• The Insights Analyst is required to deliver results in the following areas: Work with the business to hypothesize, identify data requirements, gather data, analyse data, compare data, comment, uncover insights and prepare recommendations.
• Produce high quality dashboards, content, and reports.
• Apply critical and analytical thinking to understand and address problems and identify solutions.
• Contribute to development and implementation of frameworks and standards to improve data and insights quality, consistency, and relevance.
• Scans the horizon for risks, relevant issues, and opportunities to increase data and insights capability and supports continuous improvement and innovation.
• Developing and reporting on impacts, costs and value derived from the Government’s investment.
• Research, evaluation and analysis activities.
• Scopes, shapes, plans, and manages research and analytical projects for the purpose of providing insights.
• Uses a range of evidence including data, research, and other information from a range of sources to provide the foundation for evidence-based analysis.
• Applies appropriate analytical and research methodologies.
• Proactively engages with clients and stakeholders to shape projects, including in development of viable options; analysis and evaluation, and monitoring and reviewing processes.
• Applies advanced frameworks and methods of analysis to identify problems, analyse the issues, and identify and assess strategies to advance knowledge and understanding.

Research, evaluation and analysis activities

• Scopes, shapes, plans, and manages research and analytical projects for the purpose of providing insights.
• Uses a range of evidence including data, research, and other information from a range of sources to provide the foundation for evidence-based analysis.
• Applies appropriate analytical and research methodologies.
• Proactively engages with clients and stakeholders to shape projects, including in development of viable options; analysis and evaluation, and monitoring and reviewing processes.
• Applies advanced frameworks and methods of analysis to identify problems, analyse the issues, and identify and assess strategies to advance knowledge and understanding.
• Applies system, strategic and critical thinking, clear and logical reasoning, and sound judgement to analyse evidence and issues.
• Critically synthesises information from a wide variety of domains and uses in-depth knowledge of the subject area and advanced technical skills to draw sound conclusions.
• Develops innovative, practical, effective, and durable analytical approaches and research and evaluation findings solutions that will help to achieve the desired outcomes.
• Provides clear, accurate and well-reasoned analysis products and communicates issues and concepts clearly and succinctly.

Work management

• Uses solid data analysis techniques to effectively carry out work.
• Identifies the overall objectives and seeks guidance where required and uses initiative to resolve conflicts, manage risks and coordinate work with others.
• Contributes to meetings, including where matters are complex, sensitive, or require solutions.
• Adherence to best practice data management principles.
• Prioritises the business needs for the development and implementation of new reporting requirements as and where needed.

Capability development

• Takes responsibility for own professional development of core, transferable research/analytical skills and seeks opportunities to learn.
• Helps build the capability of others in the team through coaching, mentoring and written and verbal knowledge and skills transfer.

Wellbeing, health & 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 Insights Analyst position reports into the ICT Data and Insights Manager within the Digital Operations branch. The branch sits within the Digital, Data and Insights group.

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 Aotearoa New Zealand for All.

To Grow Aotearoa New Zealand for All, we put people at the heart of our mahi. 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