Transformation Design & Delivery - Associate Director | Change Management

Kia ora,

At PwC, our purpose is clear: to build trust in society and solve important problems.

This is a place to keep growing. You’ll learn from the best, take on meaningful challenges, and make a lasting impact for our clients, our communities, and Aotearoa.

Ngā kōrero mo tēnei tūranga / About the role

Join PwC’s Transformation Design & Delivery (TDD) team in Auckland and lead some of Aotearoa’s most complex and high-impact transformation programmes.

At Associate Director level, you’ll partner with executives and senior leaders to set the direction for change, strengthen sponsorship and leadership alignment, and build organisational readiness across complex transformation programmes.

You’ll lead the development and delivery of change strategies that engage stakeholders, build capability, support transition and embed new ways of working. You’ll also grow our change management offering, coach senior clients and develop high-performing change teams that deliver lasting adoption and measurable outcomes.

Make a substantial impact in the following areas:

• Change Strategy and Leadership: Shape and lead change strategies that align people, programme objectives and business outcomes across complex transformations.
• Executive Advisory and Sponsorship: Act as a trusted advisor to executives and senior stakeholders, strengthening sponsorship, leadership alignment and decision-making while constructively navigating resistance and competing priorities.
• Organisational Readiness and Adoption: Lead change impact and readiness assessments, stakeholder strategies, communications, learning and transition activities to drive adoption, embed new ways of working and realise sustainable benefits.
• Change Delivery and Integration: Integrate change management with programme governance and delivery plans, establish meaningful adoption measures, manage interdependencies, and adapt interventions using insight, feedback and data.
• Practice and Market Leadership: Grow trusted client relationships, identify and shape opportunities, lead proposals and engagements, and strengthen our change management capability through methodologies, thought leadership, coaching and team development.

Ngā pūkenga ka kawea mai e koe, ka whakawhanakehia rānei i tēnei tūranga / Skills you will bring or develop in this role

• 10+ years’ experience leading organisational change across complex, multi-stream transformation programmes within a consulting or professional services environment, with evidence of improved adoption, capability and business outcomes. This includes leading client engagements, developing change practitioners and building collaborative, high-performing teams.
• Deep expertise in structured change management approaches, with the judgement to tailor methods and tools to different organisational contexts. Relevant change management accreditation is advantageous.
• Executive-level influencing and facilitation skills, with experience coaching sponsors, aligning leadership teams and navigating resistance, ambiguity and competing stakeholder priorities.
• Experience designing and delivering change impact, readiness, stakeholder engagement, communications, learning and adoption strategies across organisational and technology-enabled transformations.
• Strong commercial acumen and market credibility, with experience identifying opportunities, shaping change-focused solutions and supporting or leading business development activities.

Ngā āhuatanga hirahira o te mahi ki PwC / Highlights of working at PwC NZ

• Rewards - Discretionary bonus opportunities; generous referral bonuses; retail discounts & deals
• Growth - Global network; leadership development; A.I. tools and training; formal learning pathways
• Wellbeing - $250 annual wellbeing allowance; Life & income protection; Sonder/EAP/Headspace; 15 days’ paid sick leave; group-rate health insurance (eligibility applies)
• Reputation - PwC is known for shaping tomorrow. Join us and you’ll accelerate your career while helping clients and communities solve their most important problems.
• Flexibility - Flexible working; supportive coaching culture
• Time off - Two paid recognition days off provided each year during our annual summer shutdown period; purchase up to two extra weeks’ annual leave
• Whānau & community - Paid parental leave for all parents with flexible options and financial planning support; inclusive networks; paid volunteering leave

Mō te aha tāu e tatari ana? / What are you waiting for?

Hit Apply now. To learn how you can grow and shine in your career at PwC, visit our careers site at https://www.pwc.co.nz/careers.html.

Grow here. Go further.

Ngā whakautu ki o pātai / Your questions answered:

Motuhake / Independence: Maintaining independence is fundamental to demonstrating that PwC has not been influenced by any relationships or situations that undermine our objectivity. This role requires an independence review process.

Tono tika mai / Please apply directly: We’re not currently partnering with recruitment agencies for this role. If you’d like to be considered, please apply directly - we’d love to hear from you.

Nau mai ngā tono wawe / We encourage early applications: This role may close before the listed date if we identify a suitable candidate.

Atamai hangahanga / A.I. usage: Please note that secure, A.I.-enabled tools may support parts of our recruitment process, but all applications are reviewed and decisions made by our people.