Investor Relations Senior Manager

Kia ora

Air New Zealand is on an accelerated journey to deliver the best flying experience on Earth. Our purpose is to enrich our country by connecting New Zealanders to each other and New Zealand to the world. As a brand promise, we offer Manaaki to our employees and customers, taking care further than any other airline and creating experiences that empower and connect.

Shape Air New Zealand’s capital markets story

We’re looking for an Investor Relations Senior Manager to join our Corporate Finance team, reporting to the Head of Investor Relations. This is a high impact role with significant exposure to senior leadership, the Board and the broader investment community.

You will lead and evolve Air New Zealand’s Investor Relations strategy, acting as a trusted advisor to the CFO, CEO and Board on capital markets positioning, investor sentiment and disclosure considerations. You will serve as a front-line representative of the airline to the investment community, partnering closely with senior leadership, Communications, Fleet and Strategy teams to shape clear, credible and consistent market messaging.

To succeed, you will combine strong financial capability with clear and compelling storytelling. You will be comfortable in a fast moving, deadline driven environment and confident engaging with senior executives, research analysts and institutional investors.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead financial reporting delivery: plan and deliver interim and annual results materials, including media releases and analyst presentations, coordinating cross functional inputs to ensure accurate and cohesive communications.
• Drive investor engagement: engage analysts and institutional investors through roadshows, conferences, investor days and the Annual Shareholders’ Meeting to strengthen understanding of our performance and strategy.
• Shape the capital markets narrative: educate the market on airline economics, valuation drivers and capital allocation, building a clear and credible investment proposition.
• Provide market intelligence and insight: analyse share price movements, analyst models, peer performance and shareholder ownership, advising senior leadership on market perception, risk considerations and capital markets positioning.
• Ensure disclosure excellence: manage operating statistics releases, market disclosures and the investor centre website, working closely with Communications to maintain transparency and alignment.

What we’re looking for

• 10 plus years professional experience, with at least 5 years in investor relations, fund management, equity research.
• Direct Investor Relations experience preferred, though strong capital markets exposure will be considered
• Demonstrated experience advising senior executives on capital markets strategy or disclosure considerations within a listed environment.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong financial modelling literacy and analytical capability.
• Impeccable judgement and integrity when handling sensitive financial and strategic information within a listed environment.
• Self-led, hands on and comfortable navigating complexity and nuance.

Your journey starts here 

This role sits at the centre of Corporate Finance, partnering across capital planning, funding strategy and investment governance. It provides enterprise-wide visibility across strategy, fleet investment and capital allocation, with direct engagement across global investors, government stakeholders and senior leadership.

If you are motivated by shaping the capital markets story of one of New Zealand’s most recognised brands, we look forward to receiving your application with an updated CV.

Applications close at 11:59pm on Sunday 15 March 2026.

Additional Information

At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.

If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.

"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."