Manager Learning

About the role

As part of our People & Culture team, you'll lead the Bank's Learning function while providing parental leave cover for our Learning Manager. You'll be responsible for maintaining delivery of our learning strategy and priorities, ensuring employees have access to the skills, knowledge and development opportunities needed to support customer outcomes, regulatory requirements and our Future Bank Strategy.

Working across the organisation, you'll partner with leaders to identify capability needs, oversee our learning frameworks and systems, and provide strategic advice on learning and development. This is an exciting opportunity to influence workforce capability while ensuring continuity of key programmes, stakeholder relationships and learning governance activities.

This is a 10 month fixed-term parental leave cover opportunity based at our Wellington Head Office.

You'll bring the following experience to the table:

• Proven experience leading a Learning and Development function or team, ideally within a complex or regulated environment
• Strong experience developing and implementing learning strategies, frameworks and capability initiatives that deliver measurable outcomes
• Experience working with learning management systems, learning governance, reporting and compliance requirements.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to balance strategic, operational and regulatory priorities.

ProvExperience Better with Us

WeWe're a small and mighty Bank driven by the shared goal of helping New Zealanders bank better. As a proudly customer-owned Bank and Certified B Corporation, not only will you be helping Kiwis achieve their goals, but you'll also experience better simply by working here:

· Purpose: As a smaller bank, your impact is bigger-you'll see how your work makes a real difference in delivering exceptional customer experiences and financial outcomes, every single day.

· Career Growth: Expand your skills, take on new challenges and tap into a range of areas across the Bank.

· Support: We support you to balance life and work through generous benefits including Wellbeing Leave, Parental Leave Benefits, Life and Critical Illness insurance, Employee Assistance Programme, Banking Benefits, Profit Share and Workride.

· Belonging: You will feel like part of the team from day one. From the way we work together, our commitment to Pride Pledge, and focus on diversity and inclusion, you'll be part of a team that's making banking better for New Zealanders, together.

We've been operating for nearly 100 years and support over 180,000 customers across New Zealand. If you're looking for a role where we work together to make an impact, and you can build a career your proud of, you've found the right place.

We understand that no candidate is a perfect match for every qualification listed. So, if you are passionate about helping people to bank better and possess some of the key skills, we encourage you to submit your application. For any questions, please contact [email protected].

Position Description

Applications Close: 24 September 2026.