Project Manager – CRM & Digital Transformation

Are you a capable Project Manager who enjoys delivering complex digital systems and working across business, technology and vendor teams?

We are looking for a hands-on Project Manager to join a well-known Auckland organisation and deliver a varied portfolio of customer and digital transformation initiatives. Experience delivering Salesforce CRM implementations would be advantageous; however, we would also love to hear from you if you have successfully delivered comparable CRM, ERP or enterprise digital platforms involving complex data and system integrations.

This role would suit an experienced Project Manager ready to take ownership of complex projects and build their experience within a collaborative organisation.

The role

You will manage end-to-end delivery across projects: Salesforce CRM rollouts, improvements and platform enhancements; CRM and Single View of Customer initiatives; Integrations connecting CRM, eCommerce, point-of-sale and related platforms

You will be responsible for scope, planning, budget, resources, risks, dependencies, governance, vendors, testing, change, cutover and transition into business-as-usual operations.

What we are looking for

• Proven experience delivering complex digital or enterprise-system implementations

• CRM implementation experience with Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP CRM/CX, Oracle CX, HubSpot or a comparable platform is highly desirable

• Alternatively, experience delivering complex ERP, HRIS, eCommerce, customer portal, CMS, POS, procurement, analytics or other integrated systems

• Strong understanding of data migration, systems integration, testing, cutover and operational transition

• Experience managing external vendors and multidisciplinary business and technology teams

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage technical specialists, executives and non-technical operational stakeholders

• Strong planning, governance, risk, budget and dependency-management capability

• A practical, collaborative approach and willingness to roll up your sleeves in a lean technology environment

• Public-sector or similarly complex organisational experience would be advantageous

This is a permanent opportunity for someone seeking stability, meaningful delivery ownership and the chance to contribute to projects that support Auckland’s people, businesses and experiences.

If this sounds like the right next step for you, please apply with your updated CV

We are only able to consider those candidates with relevant NZ work rights who are already based in NZ.

Desktop / IT Support Engineer

Whakatāne, Bay of Plenty | Contract until January 2027 | Attractive daily rate

Join our client’s IT support team and provide hands-on, face-to-face technical support to hospital staff. This onsite contract offers an ASAP start through to January 2027, with potential extension.

You’ll help keep end-user technology running smoothly, resolving day-to-day issues and providing friendly, practical support in a busy healthcare environment.

What you’ll be doing

• Providing Windows desktop and end-user support.
• Troubleshooting laptops, desktops, docking stations, printers and peripherals.
• Supporting Microsoft 365 applications, including Outlook and Teams.
• Resolving user account, login and access issues.
• Logging, prioritising and managing incidents and service requests through ServiceNow.
• Working with other IT teams to escalate complex issues and keep users informed.

What you’ll bring

• Experience in desktop, deskside or Level 2 end-user support.
• Practical knowledge of Windows environments, Microsoft 365 and hardware troubleshooting.
• Experience resolving account and access issues, ideally using Active Directory.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow or a similar IT service management platform.
• Strong communication and customer service skills, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly.
• The ability to prioritise requests and take ownership through to resolution.

Previous healthcare IT experience would be useful, although candidates from other enterprise support environments are encouraged to apply.

What’s on offer

• An attractive daily rate.
• An ASAP start, with a contract through to January 2027 with potential extension.
• The opportunity to support technology used by frontline healthcare staff.

Location

This role is onsite in Whakatāne. We welcome applications from candidates across the Bay of Plenty who can travel onsite, as well as those willing to relocate or stay locally for the contract.

Only applicants currently based in New Zealand with valid work rights will be considered.

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• Auckland | Permanent | 37.5 hours per week

  • Lead and develop a high-performing team of Business Analysts.
  • Shape BA standards and capability within a Delivery & Change Centre of Excellence.
  • Turn AI opportunities into practical solutions and measurable business value.

  About the role

  We’re looking for a Business Analysis Practice Lead to lead and develop a team of Business Analysts, strengthen analysis capability and drive practical AI adoption across a Delivery & Change Centre of Excellence.

  Combining people leadership, business analysis expertise and hands-on AI enablement, you’ll improve how teams discover, analyse and deliver change, creating measurable gains in productivity, quality and delivery capacity.

  What you’ll do

  • Lead, coach and develop Business Analysts, supporting performance, career growth and continuous learning.
  • Evolve BA standards, frameworks and quality assurance practices across the CoE.
  • Manage workforce planning, capability development and resource allocation.
  • Provide expert guidance across discovery, inception and delivery.
  • Identify and implement AI-enabled improvements using Microsoft 365 Copilot and the wider Microsoft ecosystem.
  • Develop and scale prompts, AI agents, templates, guidance and automated workflows.
  • Support adoption through coaching, training and stakeholder engagement.
  • Measure benefits while embedding responsible AI, security, privacy and governance practices.

  What you’ll bring

  You’ll be an experienced BA leader who combines strong people management with practical delivery experience and a passion for improving ways of working.

  We’re particularly interested in:

  • Experience leading and developing BA teams in complex delivery or transformation environments.
  • A track record of improving BA practice standards, capability and quality.
  • Practical experience implementing AI-enabled productivity, automation or process improvements.
  • Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365 Copilot and the broader Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
  • Experience taking initiatives from discovery through implementation, adoption and benefits realisation.
  • Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation and influencing skills.
  • An understanding of responsible AI, information security, privacy and risk management.

  You don’t need to meet every requirement. If you bring strong BA leadership and relevant AI enablement experience, we’d welcome a conversation.

  Why join ?

  Help shape the future of business analysis and delivery within a major banking organisation. Our client offers opportunities to learn and grow, flexible working arrangements, wellbeing support and an inclusive workplace that values diverse perspectives.

  Interested?

  Apply with your updated CV, highlighting your BA leadership, practice development and practical AI implementation experience.

An excellent opportunity for an experienced Policy Manager to lead a small team and lead some substantial peices of work.

The team work on a wide breadth of work across some significant and priority areas, some of which are high profile. This team’s focus is the legislation administered by this public sector organisation, with work at various stages from potential bills in development through to a recently passed Act.

We’re seeking:

• an experienced central government policy manager
• people leadership experience
• strong relationship and stakeholder management
• a high level of comfort and competence in the first principles policy space.

You’ll lead a small team within the broader policy group and be well supported in this fixed term role. The initial term is for six months, however may extend beyond that.

With more legislative reform in the pipeline, this is an excellent opportunity to lead a team engaged in varied, complex and interesting pieces of work.

If that sounds like you, reach out for a confidential chat today.

Senior SOC Analyst – Incident Response & Threat Hunting

Auckland CBD | Permanent | Hybrid – two office days | No on-call

Take the technical lead when it matters most.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Security Operations Centre (SOC) Analyst to join a well-established security operations environment. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you will lead high-severity incidents, guide other analysts and influence how the SOC detects, investigates and responds to threats.

You will be the trusted technical authority and escalation point-not a people manager. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced SOC professional who enjoys leading from the front, mentoring others and improving security operations without the politics of formal team management.

The opportunity

You will take ownership of complex security incidents from initial investigation through containment, remediation and review. Alongside incident response, you will conduct proactive threat hunting, support the development of other analysts and help strengthen SOC workflows, playbooks and detection capabilities.

You will work closely with technical teams and business stakeholders, providing clear advice and maintaining calm, decisive leadership during critical incidents.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the investigation and resolution of high-severity security incidents
• Act as a technical escalation point for SOC analysts
• Perform proactive threat hunting and identify emerging security risks
• Analyse network activity, alerts and security events
• Use SIEM and EDR/XDR platforms to investigate and respond to threats
• Support the development and improvement of SOAR processes and playbooks
• Mentor analysts and promote effective knowledge sharing
• Contribute to detection engineering and broader SOC capability uplift
• Communicate incident impact, risk and recommended actions to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Identify opportunities to improve operational processes and response effectiveness

What you will bring

• At least five years of dedicated Security Operations Centre experience
• Previous senior, lead or technical escalation responsibilities
• Advanced experience with SIEM platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel or Splunk
• Strong knowledge of EDR/XDR technologies such as Microsoft Defender
• Demonstrated ownership of complex security incident response
• Practical threat-hunting experience
• Strong understanding of network analysis and intrusion detection
• Experience working with SOAR technologies and security playbooks
• The ability to remain calm and make pragmatic decisions under pressure
• Clear communication skills across technical and business audiences
• A genuine interest in mentoring others and sharing knowledge

Experience improving SOC processes, detection capability, playbooks or team maturity would be particularly valuable.

What is on offer

• Hybrid working with two days per week in the Auckland CBD office
• No on-call requirement
• Southern Cross UltraCare 400 health insurance
• Life, trauma, income protection and permanent disability insurance
• Employer KiwiSaver contribution grossed up so eligible employees receive the full 3%
• Monthly fitness reimbursement of up to $100
• Additional wellbeing initiatives and employee benefits
• A supportive culture with flexible working arrangements
• Genuine influence over SOC processes and capability development

Earlier-career SOC opportunities

We are also interested in hearing from developing SOC Analysts with approximately one to three years of relevant, hands-on Security Operations and incident-response experience. If you are earlier in your SOC career but have practical SIEM and security investigation experience, we encourage you to apply.

Apply now

If you are an experienced SOC professional who wants to remain technically hands-on while leading incidents, mentoring others and improving operational capability, we would like to hear from you.

Applicants must be based in New Zealand and hold a valid work visa to be considered for this role. Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Senior Azure Cloud Platform Engineer – DevSecOps

Auckland CBD | Six-month contract | Hybrid working

• Lead a practical uplift across CI/CD, application security and engineering practices

• Work in an Azure-focused enterprise environment

• $ Competitive daily rate

The opportunity

We are looking for a senior, self-sufficient Azure Cloud Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer or DevSecOps specialist to join a leading enterprise organisation in Auckland.

This is an assessment, uplift and implementation role-not a position focused on building a new DevOps environment from scratch. The organisation already has established CI/CD pipelines, application-security tools, code-quality tooling and engineering processes.

You will assess what is working, identify gaps and lead practical improvements across how software is developed, secured, tested and released.

The role combines approximately 50% technical DevSecOps capability with 50% technical leadership, stakeholder engagement and influence. You will work closely with software engineers, testers, delivery teams, platform teams and senior stakeholders to embed stronger engineering practices across the organisation.

Key responsibilities

• Assess existing CI/CD pipelines, development processes, security controls and release practices

• Identify gaps, risks and opportunities across the software-development lifecycle

• Improve Azure DevOps pipelines and associated engineering practices

• Embed application-security and code-quality controls into CI/CD workflows

• Strengthen source-control, testing, release-governance and deployment standards

• Work with engineering teams to improve secure-development practices

• Develop practical recommendations and support their implementation

• Influence technical and non-technical stakeholders to adopt improved ways of working

• Provide technical guidance, coaching and leadership across multiple teams

• Support the adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices where appropriate

What you will bring

• Senior-level experience in DevSecOps, cloud platform engineering, SRE or software engineering

• Strong practical knowledge of CI/CD, source control, testing and release management

• Experience with Azure DevOps and Azure Cloud

• Knowledge of secure-SDLC and application-security practices

• Experience embedding security and quality controls into delivery pipelines

• Exposure to SonarQube or similar code-quality tooling

• Experience with SAST, SCA or application-security tools such as Mend, Fortify, Snyk, Checkmarx or equivalent

• The ability to assess an existing environment and turn findings into practical improvements

• Strong stakeholder-management, communication and influencing skills

• Experience coaching engineers and driving adoption across delivery teams

• Exposure to GitHub Copilot or other AI-assisted engineering tools would be advantageous

Contract details

• Initial six-month contract with potential for extension

• Auckland CBD location

• Minimum three days per week in the office

• 37.5 hours per week

This opportunity would suit a senior Cloud Platform Engineer, SRE or DevSecOps specialist who combines strong technical capability with the confidence to influence teams, challenge existing practices and lead meaningful engineering uplift.

Apply now or contact Jenny Nguyen at Talent International for a confidential discussion.

Please note: We can only consider applicants who are already in New Zealand and hold valid working rights.