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PHARMAC
Director Corporate Services
Wellington
FULL TIME
November 24, 2024
At Te Pātaka Whaioranga | Pharmac we endeavour to deliver the best health outcomes for all New Zealanders through investment in medicines and medical devices.
We are a close-knit whānau with around 180 kaimahi. We take pride in what we do, work hard, and have fun along the way.
The Corporate Services Directorate is responsible for ensuring financial sustainability, driving innovation, and supporting strategic decision-making to enable Pharmac to deliver on its strategic priorities.
The Directorate comprises the finance, legal, IT, HR, analysis, information and knowledge management, and business services functions.
Ngā uruatanga, our values, ground our behaviour and guide our thinking:
Whakarongo - we listen with intent and empathy to understand
Tūhono - we connect with people, communities, the health system and each other
Wānanga - we draw on evidence and people's experiences to improve
Māia - we challenge ourselves
Kaitiakitanga - we safeguard wellbeing for New Zealanders, now and for the future
Mō tēnei tūranga | About the Role
Pharmac has several strategic decisions to be made that have implications for our Corporate Services workforce. This includes the decision on who will deliver Medical Devices, and what our data and digital and people and capability strategies will be going forward. Reporting to the Chief Executive, this fixed term role will lead a programme of work to assess the Corporate Services' longer-term resource and workforce requirements to reflect these key strategic decisions.
In addition you will:
- Lead the development and implementation of the organisational strategies to ensure Pharmac decisions contribute to its strategic outcomes.
- Develop and maintain cross-agency relationships to support the achievement of key outcomes including engagement with Health New Zealand, the wider health sector and other key stakeholders across the public sector.
- Hold accountability for Pharmac's financial, ICT, people and capability and other corporate services functions, and the effective leadership of these teams.
- Contribute as a member of the Senior Leadership Team to organisational leadership, performance and success.
This is a unique opportunity to have a direct impact on equitable health outcomes for New Zealanders.
Ko wai koe? | Who are you?
This is a key strategic, senior people leader role and would be suited to someone with experience building trust and credibility internally during a time of change. Given the breadth of the role, you will be a well-rounded and considered leader, someone that can demonstrate a high level of strategic foresight, complex problem-solving skills, creativity and innovation.
To be successful in this role, you will need to bring with you:
- Proven success in leading others and managing cross-agency change, through the development and implementation of strategy.
- Demonstrated successful functional leadership at a senior level.
- Proven experience in successfully managing corporate services functions, with expertise in leading finance, ICT and/or people and capability functions as a distinct advantage.
- Strong engagement and communication capability with proven success in building productive and trusting relationships with cross-agency partners.
- Demonstrated proficiency in risk identification, mitigation and management with a focus on financial, operational and compliance risks.
- Politically aware and comfortable working within the political context.
- A strong commercial focus.
Te Pātaka Whaioranga invite you to share who you are, your personal values, your whakapapa, as well as your interests and motivations in ing for this role. We are interested to learn about your personal attributes, experiences and the diverse perspectives you could bring to the role and Te Pātaka Whaioranga and acknowledge attributes may extend to having been gained outside of the workforce and encourage you to share these in your application.
Joining Te Pātaka Whaioranga | Pharmac
This is an exciting senior leadership opportunity for someone who has a passion for leading enabling functions to support better health outcomes for New Zealanders. This role will support a visionary leader to influence and future-proof Pharmac's corporate services functions.
Pharmac offers flexible working arrangements, generous professional development support as well as five weeks annual leave, three additional days leave over the Christmas break, and an annual hauora (wellbeing) allowance.
We may identify our preferred candidate earlier than the listed closing date of 5pm, Sunday, 8 December 2024, so if this sounds like your next exciting career move, today!
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