Our client is a well-established New Zealand business operating in a specialised logistics niche, where technical expertise and a strong safety culture set them apart. They've spent decades building a reputation few competitors can match, and are backed by genuine shareholder appetite to invest in the business's future as they enter an exciting new growth and diversification phase.

About the Role:
A newly created, first in-house digital leadership role, the first of its kind at the business. You'll own the digital and AI roadmap end-to-end, bringing coherence to a wide sprawl of disparate systems and leading ERP and TMS transformation projects from business case through to delivery. You'll chair the AI governance group, partner with People & Culture on AI and digital training, and manage vendor relationships across IT, hardware and prospective platform partners. 

Skills & Experience:

• Strong experience in IT systems
• Demonstrated leadership (not just contribution) on system or ERP-scale projects
• Hands-on experience with data warehousing, BI tools and reporting (Power BI or Tableau)
• Proven change management and ERP implementation experience
• Strong stakeholder communication that flexes from senior leadership to frontline teams
• Comfortable running workshops to gather requirements and resolve pain points
• SQL, API/cloud familiarity and PMO certification advantageous

Why Work Here?

• Build a brand-new function from scratch and shape it your way
• Direct access to senior leadership
• Genuine shareholder appetite to invest in people and systems, not just protect margin
• A real step up into strategic ownership, for someone ready to lead solo
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