Business Lead - Wairakei Group

Te āhua o te tūranga | The nature of the role

As Business Lead, Wairakei Group, you’ll step into a pivotal leadership role within our Geothermal Generation team. This is about setting direction, bringing clarity, and enabling teams to do their best work. You’ll lead a team of teams, working closely with capability leads to align strategy, priorities, and resources so that outcomes are delivered safely, efficiently, and with purpose.

Day to day, you’ll balance big picture thinking with practical decision making. You’ll help shape strategy, translate it into clear outcomes, and empower squads to operate autonomously within agreed guardrails. By removing blockers, managing dependencies, and navigating competing priorities, you’ll create momentum and whakakotahi people around shared goals. You’ll also play a key role in managing risk to generation earnings, identifying opportunities to lift performance through smarter processes, optimisation, and continuous improvement.