Job Description

Job title: Manager Food and Seafoods Standards

Role type: Permanent, full-time

Location: Wellington City

Salary band & range: General Salary Range B, $138,938 to $162,716 per annum, depending on skills and experience

About the Role - Kōrero mō te Tūranga

The Manager Food and Seafood Standards sits within the Food Risk Management Directorate within New Zealand Food Safety at the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and plays a key leadership role across the food system.

This role leads the team responsible for developing, maintaining, and implementing New Zealand's food and seafood standards. A central focus of the role is people leadership and performance, alongside delivery of complex, high‑impact work programmes in a regulated and high‑profile environment.

Operating at a system level, the role requires sound judgement to balance public health ...