Position description

Position / Chief Executive
Department / Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE)
Mission / Purpose / MBIE’s purpose is to Grow New Zealand for all with a focus on a stronger performing economy that delivers sustainable growth and higher standards of living and quality of life for New Zealanders.
MBIE is the Government’s primary micro-economic and business-facing agency. MBIE is central to the Government’s goal of building a more productive and internationally competitive economy for all New Zealanders.
The Chief Executive will lead a high performing organisation that delivers results across its significant service delivery, regulatory and policy functions
Performance Profile
Critical Success Factors / ·  Continue to strengthen MBIE, to be a unified business with a collaborative, energised and high performing culture committed to delivering a shared vision and purpose;
·  Refresh and as necessary provide advice on the economic growth agenda – lead and mobilise the economic sector to deliver a clear and credible programme for continuing to improve New Zealand’s economic performance through lifting business productivity and international competitiveness;
·  Cement MBIE’s role as the Government’s lead business facing agency - deepen and broaden its engagement with business, Crown entities and other stakeholders to build shared ownership of the economic strategy, gain insights and experience of how business operates and the challenges they face and use this to identify opportunities to improve service, policy and regulatory design and delivery;
·  Move forward at pace with work to improve MBIE’s ability to generate intelligence and insight from data, analytics and other information to improve all aspects of performance;
·  Lead the system to sustain New Zealand’s international standing in regulatory performance, including through the Better for Business programme (BPS Result 9) and by ensuring best practice informs all aspects of MBIE’s regulatory design and delivery work.
Person profile
The Chief Executive of MBIE must have the credibility and mana to lead significant cross-government initiatives and deliver results across policy, service delivery and regulatory functions. The Chief Executive must provide superior governance and leadership of the MBIE executive to deliver results across these functions.
She or he must have an excellent grasp of operational service delivery, policy development, and regulation in areas vital to the economic growth of New Zealand.
This requires experience in managing the efficient delivery of services to the public and businesses as well as thought leadership of contestable policy issues. Given MBIE’s significant system responsibilities the Chief Executive must excel in creating the conditions for effective collaboration and partnership with multiple stakeholders.
As well as being a strong, strategic leader who can embed large scale change and drive an organisation’s culture to deliver results, she or he needs to be able to work constructively across government, with a large number of Ministers, and influence the range of areas that intersect with economic development. Deep and broad networks, as well as credibility in the economic sector, will be essential to the level of influencing envisaged.
Key external relationships / Government and Parliament:
Ministers of/for: ACC; Economic Development; Science and Innovation; Skills and Employment; Tourism; Building and Construction; Immigration; Workplace Relations and Safety; Social Housing; Communications; Energy and Resources; Commerce and Consumer Affairs; Small Business; Regulatory Reform.
Sector:
·  Chairs the Result 9 Steering Group, Tourism Chief Executives Group, Housing Chief Executives Group and Regulatory Chief Executives Group.
·  Co-Chairs (with Treasury) the Economic Chief Executives Group and BGA Leadership Group (comprising Chief Executives of the Treasury, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Ministry for Primary Industries, the Ministry for the Environment, and New Zealand Trade and Enterprise).
·  Co-Chairs (with the Ministry of Education) the Skilled and Safe Workplaces CEs Group.
·  Member of the Natural Resource Sector Leadership Board and the Border Sector Governance Group.
·  Broader government agencies, including Crown entities, in the employment and skills, science, building and construction, housing, immigration and border sectors.
Communities and the public:
·  New Zealand and international business interests
·  Unions and employee organisations
·  Iwi and Māori organisations
·  Local and regional government.
·  Licencing and accreditation bodies
·  Universities, polytechnics and industry training organisations
·  Landlords’, tenants’ and property owners’ representative groups
Security Clearance / Appointment will be subject to a New Zealand Government Top Secret security clearance.

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Annex

Targets / Objectives / MBIE’s operational target is to:
·  increase real median household income of 40% by 2025, from $1,300 (in 2012) to $1,800 per week.
Supporting this target MBIE has three objectives:
more competitive businesses – double labour productivity growth and increase exports/GDP ratio to 40%
·  job opportunities for all – unemployment under 4%
·  affordable housing – lower ratio of housing costs to income.
MBIE has 5 long-term sector outcomes to support the attainment of these objectives:
·  more supportive and dynamic business environment;
·  an increased number of highly skilled people and innovative firms;
·  the built environment supports a well-functioning economy;
·  greater value sustainably derived from the natural environment;
·  more productive and prosperous sectors, regions and people.
Context / MBIE has over 3000 FTEs and has responsibilities for approximately $4 billion total appropriated expenditure across three Votes: Building and Housing; Business, Science and Innovation; and Labour Market.
MBIE was established in 2012, amalgamating the Ministries of Science and Innovation and Economic Development with the Departments of Building and Housing and Labour. The value proposition for its creation was to:
·  create a more consistent and effective regulatory environment for, and service delivery to, business;
·  reduce the complexity of developing and integrating advice across a number of areas;
·  realise efficiencies through increased synergies, reduced duplication and fragmentation.
MBIE operates in a complex environment. It supports Ministers across a very broad policy agenda and a wide range of regulatory and service delivery responsibilities.
Key functions / MBIE has policy and operational responsibilities across 16 distinct regulatory systems, and stewardship responsibilities for approximately 140 pieces of legislation. MBIE:
·  is directly responsible for a range of service and regulatory delivery functions, including Immigration New Zealand, the Labour Inspectorate and Companies Office.
·  helps set the strategic policy direction for and monitors a wide range of 27 regulatory and service delivery Crown entities (including New Zealand Tourism Board, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, WorkSafe New Zealand, Callaghan Innovation, Crown Research Institutes, Commerce Commission, and the Financial Markets Authority) and is also responsible for over 30 statutory bodies and advisory boards.
·  has leadership on whole of government issues: Result 9; functional lead for procurement and property; Government Regulatory Practice; Business Growth Agenda (co-lead); the Maori Economic Development Strategy and Action Plan, He Kai Kei Aku Ringa (co-lead); and Dispute Resolution (co-lead).
The Chief Executive’s challenge is to harness the significant resources at MBIE’s disposal, including its business relationships and intelligence, to drive and influence positive system-wide change for businesses, workers and citizens. This involves setting the strategic direction and leveraging MBIE’s broad range of interventions to create an environment for business that supports innovation and encourages sustainable growth.

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