Remuneration and People Insights Advisor (Fixed Term)

About the Business Unit:
The People & Partnerships Group manages our people, customer and stakeholder relationships, communications, sustainability, and strategy. They ensure an integrated approach to managing internal and external relationships, promoting a customer-focused and engaged workplace culture. They oversee strategic customer and stakeholder relationships, communications, and the development of Airways Corporate Strategy, including sustainability.

The Group plays a critical role in supporting the business to achieve its objectives by providing high-quality service and advice that is proactive, innovative, and impactful.

About the Role:
We’re looking for a Remuneration and People Insights Advisor to join us on a 12-month full-time fixed term parental cover engagement. This role is based at our Auckland (airport) office, ideally starting in December 2026.

This is a varied specialist role spanning remuneration, people analytics, performance and people systems. You’ll provide remuneration advice and analysis, play a key role in our annual remuneration review, turn people data into meaningful insights, and help improve the systems and processes that support our people.

In the role you’ll:

• Provide remuneration advice and analysis to stakeholders across Airways.
• Play a key role in delivering our annual remuneration review, including modelling, analysis, coordination, and reporting.
• Undertake remuneration benchmarking and market analysis and support the maintenance of salary bands and job sizing outcomes.
• Develop high-quality people reporting, dashboards and insights that help turn workforce data into meaningful information for decision-making.
• Support our performance processes, including the systems and data that underpin the performance cycle.
• Contribute to the optimisation and continuous improvement of our people systems, processes, and data.
• Work closely with stakeholders across the business to understand their needs, solve problems and deliver practical, well-informed solutions.
  

For a full list of tasks and responsibilities, refer to the attached position description on our careers site.

About You:
You’ll bring strong analytical capability together with good practical exposure to remuneration. You might already be working in remuneration or reward, or you may come from a broader HR or people analytics background with a good understanding of remuneration activities and processes.

You don’t necessarily need to have done everything this role covers before. What’s important is that you’re comfortable working with data, have a sound understanding of remuneration, and can turn information into practical insights and advice.

For success, you’ll bring:

• Practical remuneration experience, including exposure to areas such as remuneration analysis, benchmarking or annual review processes.
• Strong analytical and Excel skills, with confidence working with people and remuneration data.
• Excellent attention to detail and a focus on producing accurate, reliable work.
• The ability to build effective relationships and translate data and technical information into clear, practical advice.
• A proactive, organised and solutions-focused approach.
• An interest in developing broader capability across people analytics, performance, and people systems.
• The resilience and agility to work in a dynamic environment, take ownership and collaborate effectively to deliver successful outcomes.
  

It would also be beneficial to have:
Experience with job evaluation, HR systems, dashboards, or data visualisation tools would be an advantage, but is not essential.

About Our Offering:
Airways is a great place to work, providing an inclusive and supportive environment. We offer a competitive salary, free parking, access to retailer discounts and vast learning and professional development opportunities.

To Apply:
If you’re keen to expand your career in a State-Owned Enterprise (SOE) with an international reputation for innovation and success, submit your application (CV and cover letter) via the advert link.

Please note that you must be legally eligible to work in New Zealand to be considered.

This role will require the successful candidate to undergo standard pre-employment background checks linked to the role.

Application closing date is Tuesday, 13 October 2026.

At Airways, our people are at the heart of what we do to keep NZ skies safe. We are committed to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace where people feel they belong and can bring their whole self to work. We make our recruitment decisions based on the best candidate for the job and encourage applications from diverse candidates. We are proud to hold both Rainbow Tick and Gender Tick accreditations.

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