Brand Associate

Ko mātou tēnei | This is Us 

Our role as the Bank of New Zealand is to help navigate New Zealand towards a better future, this means working in an energising environment built around our customers to help our communities prosper. This is an engaging & rewarding tūranga (role) with plenty of opportunity to ako (learn). If you can imagine a better future, let's find a way! 

He Waka Eke Noa | Creating Great Together  

If you’re a motivated marketer with an eye for creative and top-notch project management skills, we have an awesome opportunity for you! 

We’re looking for someone with a few years of post-uni experience developing their traditional marketing communications skills, that’s ready for the next step. This is a varied role where you’ll get to support, lead, and learn, as we bring our brand promise to life through brand identity, insight-led communications, and brand experiences – ensuring we always look, feel, and sound like BNZ. 

Mō te Tūranga | About the Role 

We sat down with our Senior Brand Communications Manager (who you’d report to), and she let us know the following about the role: 

What are some of the day to day tasks the person in this role will complete? 

• Support the brand comms team to develop and execute a wide range of brand initiatives that substantiate our ‘let’s find a way’ brand positioning – from above the line storytelling comms, to campaigns that celebrate key cultural moments, to delivering consistent brand experiences across our customer touchpoints. 

• Alongside the Senior Brand Comms Manager, you’ll collaborate with design, creative, and media agency partners to drive maximum usage of our distinctive brand assets, and deliver best-practice, brand safe work to market that’s on time, and makes effective use of our budget. 

• Day to day will involve working alongside your brand teammates in providing brand support and approvals through our central inbox to ensure BNZ shows up as ‘One BNZ’ across all mediums – this includes guiding the usage of our brand identity, tone of voice, copywriting guidance, and meeting our risk obligations. 

• You’ll be responsible for the ongoing coordination and maintenance of the BNZ Brand Toolkit, ensuring it’s up-to-date, accessible, and clearly communicated to all BNZ colleagues. 

What is the team culture and environment like? 

At BNZ we work in a collaborative, creative and motivated environment with a strong focus on your learning, development and career progression. Our team is a tight knit group of high-performing brand specialists, we openly support each other and share knowledge, and we're excellent company too! 

What is the most exciting thing about this opportunity? 

This is a rare opportunity to specialise your marketing skill-set and get involved in all thing's ‘brand’. You’ll get to help on big creative production projects, as well as lead your own end-to-end brand initiatives with plenty of support to help you succeed. No two days will be the same, and you’ll have a lot of fun doing it! 

What attributes will this person display to be successful in this role? 

As the Brand Associate, you'll be someone with a degree in marketing and 2-3 years’ experience in a brand, marketing, or advertising role. 

Our ideal candidate: 

• Must be able to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of marketing fundamentals, and experience with successfully implementing comms to drive positive outcomes. Tell us about your marketing achievements! 

• You consider yourself an English language and grammar guru, with a strong creative eye and excellent attention to detail – especially as you’ll be reviewing and feeding back on the work of others. 

• Have a collaborative working style and proven experience managing relationships with a variety of stakeholders – bonus if this is with creative and agency partners too. 

• Above all, you’re a motivated go-getter who brings a positive attitude and loves to get stuck-in to whatever comes your way! 

Nau Mai ki te Pēke o Aotearoa | Come to the Bank of New Zealand 

Please Note: Applications for this vacancy will close on Thursday 9 July 2026. We review applications as we receive them and may close advertising early.