Vanguard

Vanguard

Strategic Market Development Consultant

Malvern, PA

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 22 days ago
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About the role

  • Strategic Market Development is Vanguard's enterprise capability for navigating disruptive change and next-horizon opportunities that will define the long-term future for Vanguard and our clients.
  • The team helps senior leaders anticipate and assess emerging market, competitive, and technology shifts, surface enterprise implications and choices, and mobilize the company around the most consequential opportunities.
  • Strategic Market Development works hand-in-hand with business and technology leaders to accelerate Vanguard's most ambitious initiatives.

Responsibilities

  • Identify, validate, and advance next-horizon opportunities that shape Vanguard's future.
  • Lead competitive strategy and scenario planning to anticipate market shifts, breakthrough technologies, and evolving client needs.
  • Monitor industry, investor, and innovation trends to develop hypothesis and help senior leaders "see around corners" to prepare for emerging opportunities and threats.
  • Partner with Vanguard's Strategic Consulting team and Strategic Business Development team to help drive enterprise-level strategy and initiatives that position the firm for long-term resilience and success.
  • Collaborate across Vanguard to advance high-impact technology and digital product incubation efforts.
  • deliver compelling materials and presentations to the firm's most senior leadership.
  • Develop creative and technology-enabled solutions that enable new ways of working.
  • Synthesize complex and ambiguous data into actionable recommendations; deliver compelling materials and presentations to the firm's most senior leadership.

Requirements

  • Broad Operational & Analytical Skillset: You're as comfortable analyzing complex data or performing deep research as you are rolling up your sleeves as a front-line operator driving a project.
  • Technical Fluency: You can understand and evaluate novel technologies and assess real-world applicability.
  • First-Principles Thinker: You are skilled at breaking down ambiguous, open-ended problems and synthesizing insights from technology, market trends, and client behavior.
  • Proven Track Record: We look for a demonstrated track record of extraordinary achievement, whether in prior roles, academics, or other endeavors.
  • Domain Expertise: Deep subject matter expertise in financial services and/or financial technology is a significant advantage.
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
  • Technical Fluency: You can understand and evaluate novel technologies and assess real-world applicability. You leverage those technologies in your own work, consistently finding smarter ways to deliver.
  • Ownership & Proactivity: You are a self-starter with an innate drive to tackle challenges and deliver results without waiting for direction.
  • High EQ and Collaboration: You excel at managing complex stakeholder groups and navigating differing views dispassionately in high-stakes settings. You'll be working with senior executives, business leaders, technical teams, and external partners, often acting as the connective bond among them.
  • Five years related experience.
  • Special Factors
  • Sponsorship
  • Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
  • About Vanguard
  • At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission-we're on a mission.

Company info

  • This often includes enterprise capability-building, internal innovation, and engagement with external industry and ecosystem partners.
  • This is a fast-paced environment for ambitious professionals looking to do the best work of their careers.
  • If you are equally happy driving work independently and working collaboratively, thrive in complexity and ambiguity, have a track record of extraordinary achievement, and bring deep expertise in financial services or financial technology, we want to hear from you.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
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