Principal Advisor - Remuneration and Reward
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Tēnei tūranga – About the role
The Principal Advisor Remuneration & Reward is a team member position in MBIE. The Principal Advisor Remuneration &Reward is responsible for delivering timely, high quality, accurate and consistent remuneration advice as well as delivering solutions and initiatives centred on business' needs.
The Principal Advisor Remuneration &Reward is a lead technical expert that helps lead the operations of the Remuneration & Reward team. The team is responsible for providing quality expert remuneration and reward advice to the organisation on a day to day basis as well as leading and supporting key projects with a remuneration and reward focus, such as annual remuneration reviews, job evaluation and pay frameworks as well as gender pay and pay equity as well as being integral to collective bargaining and its implementation.
The Principal Advisor Remuneration & Reward will work within this context is responsible for ensuring quality and consistency of advice and practices in relation to their contribution and leadership to the team’s work.
Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role
Personal specifications
- Significant demonstrated expertise as a remuneration specialist, or Senior HR Advisor with the ability to provide specialist advice in the broader remuneration, recognition and job evaluation fields.
- Experience in leading large and complex remuneration reviews within a Public Sector context.
- Ability to clearly articulate remuneration principles and ideas to a broad range of stakeholders with varying degrees of remuneration knowledge. This includes the ability to influence at a senior level.
- Ability to interpret information into usable insights.
- Ability and willingness to quickly assimilate new information or areas of work.
- Can-do attitude.
- Ability to quickly establish and build strong working relationships inside and outside of the team.
- Ability to engage with stakeholders anticipate risks and recommend best options to meet information needs.
- Ability to project manage an information request from early discussion to delivery.
- Good communication skills both written and verbal with experience in drafting executive level papers and advice.
- Proven ability to develop trust and credibility with managers and staff.
- Tertiary qualification, preferably in Human Resource Management, or comparable relevant experience and/or experience in remuneration and reward.
- Strong analytical skills including intermediate to advanced excel knowledge.
- Strong understanding of HR & ER processes and the connection with reward.
- Experience in partnering with Unions and involvement in collective bargaining.
- Demonstrated understanding of gender pay and pay equity issues and solutions.
- Experience in providing professional HR advice to meet business needs.
- The ability to take a strategic system view to the design of remuneration frameworks.
- Experience in international remuneration pay practices.
- Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand.
Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables
The Principal Advisor Remuneration & Reward will be required to deliver results in the following areas:
- Providing appropriate, relevant and professional remuneration, job evaluation policies, processes and systems, advice and support to MBIE managers, staff and the wider People & Culture branch.
- Leading the delivery of the annual remuneration review, including systems and processes (both on shore and offshore).
- Leading the configuration of the MBIE remuneration system to reflect changing business requirements as required.
- Conducting analysis and providing insights arising from annual performance and remuneration reviews.
- Drafting of remuneration related SLT and CEO recommendations and papers/memos.
- Provide best practice remuneration coaching, mentoring and training to assist in capability uplift across P&C and MBIE managers.
- Ensure knowledge of relevant legislation and remuneration best practices (both onshore and offshore) remains current, through research and maintaining professional relationships.
- Overseeing the job evaluation process, ensuring internal and external relativities are appropriate and outcomes are fair and are communicated and recorded.
- Leading key pieces of work for the team. This will include; Career & Pay Progression development, Gender Pay & Pay Equity, development of options for the next round of collective bargaining as well as refining and iterating our remuneration framework.
- Delivery of services, products and programmes that actively support and contribute to the achievement of the Ministry’s outcomes and that deliver to the needs of internal and external stakeholders.
- Develop relationships with stakeholders to understand and deliver on their information needs and objectives. Engage and discuss information sources and benefits early in the process to achieve best outcomes.
- Take a system view when designing solutions and thinking strategically not only across MBIE but wider implications across the sector.
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 Principal Advisor Remuneration and Reward position reports into the Head of Remuneration & Reward within the People and Culture branch. The branch sits within the Ngā Pou o te Taumaru group.
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
