Head of Network Design and Planning | Auckland

Mō te Tukurau Aotearoa - About NZ Post

At NZ Post - whatever the role - we share the same goal.  Delivering.  For Aotearoa New Zealand.  For each other. There's something truly special about our people and the exceptional work we do at NZ Post Tukurau Aotearoa. From the top of the north to the bottom of the south, our teams work with care and dedication around the clock to keep New Zealanders connected.

Kōrero mō te tūranga - About the role

We're looking for a visionary leader to take on the role of Head of Network Design and Planning at NZ Post. This pivotal role leads our integrated Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process. You will be bringing together forecasting, network design, capacity planning, and optimisation to ensure our end-to-end network is aligned with strategic goals, commercially sustainable, and operationally effective. You'll be responsible for shaping the network across short- and long-term horizons, from seasonal peaks to future transformation, determining how products flow, where they're processed, and how they're delivered.

You'll lead network design and capacity planning across a 1-18-month horizon, translating demand forecasts into executable plans that balance service, cost, and capability. Collaboration is key, you'll work closely with Sales, Operations, and other internal teams to ensure plans are informed, integrated, and responsive to changing business needs. Once plans are finalised, you'll hand over to the Network Control team for seamless execution, ensuring resilience and adaptability across NZ Post's evolving network. You'll also play a critical role in reviewing performance outcomes, identifying improvement opportunities, and feeding insights back into future planning cycles, driving continuous improvement and strengthening network maturity. Our network is vast and on a journey of evolution.

Mōu - About you

As the ideal candidate for this role, you'll be able to clearly demonstrate the following skills and experience: 

• Multiple years' experience at senior leadership level within a large complex operations environment, successfully carrying out Network Management, Planning and Design duties with proven success. But you're still happy to be hands on, roll your sleeves up, and get the job done alongside your team as needed.
• Logistics management industry expertise.
• Experienced leading and driving change and improving performance inside an operations business. 
• Exceptional people leadership skills, the ability to develop and enable teams to thrive and grow.
• Inclusive stakeholder management skills, building effective and constructive relationships.
• Commercial acumen and experience successfully managing multi-million-dollar budgets.

Hiahia? - Interested? Come and join the whānau!

Apply today, or find out more details about this opportunity by downloading the JD on the NZ Post Careers page.  If you require additional information, please contact Gemma Corbett via gemma.corbett@nzpost.co.nz or 027 372 4705.

Applications for this opportunity close on 31 August 2025.

All successful applicants will be required to provide proof of their eligibility to work in New Zealand and will be subject to a security check and reference checks.  Some of our roles may also require a credit check and/or a drug test. 

If you're interested in a role, please apply directly through our online portal. No one knows what we do and how we do it better than us, and our in-house talent team are experts at finding the right people for the right roles.  We won't consider candidates through agencies unless this has been previously approved. 

There's something really special about being part of the team here at NZ Post - Tukurau Aotearoa, who we are and what we stand for is grounded in our values.

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