Corporate Strategy Consultant, Specialist
Vanguard•2w ago
United StatesHybridFull-time
Top focus
Strategy Consultant
Corporate Strategy is a critical enterprise-wide function that helps shape Vanguard’s strategic agenda and develops future leaders of the firm. The team partners with senior leaders to solve complex, ambiguous, and future-focused business challenges, bringing objective analysis, strategic insight, and actionable recommendations to support enterprise decision making
Responsibilities
- Lead enterprise strategy workstreams focused on Vanguard's long-term direction, competitive positioning, growth opportunities, operating model evolution, and emerging business challenges.
- Partner with senior leaders to frame ambiguous strategic questions, define decision points, and develop recommendations that influence enterprise-level priorities and strategic choices.
- Conduct quantitative and qualitative analyses to evaluate strategic opportunities, risks, and tradeoffs and generate insights that inform long-term business direction.
- Translate strategic insights into clear, compelling executive communications, including presentations and leadership discussions.
- Effectively articulate complex concepts, strategic implications, and recommended courses of action for senior decision-makers.
- Drive alignment on strategic initiatives by facilitating cross-functional discussions, influencing stakeholders, and building consensus around strategic priorities, decisions, and next steps across the enterprise.
- Maintain a deep understanding of industry trends, competitive dynamics, emerging technologies, and evolving customer needs.
- Identify developments that may create opportunities or risks for Vanguard and proactively inform strategic discussions.
- Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Five years of relevant experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, enterprise strategy, business strategy, strategic planning, or related fields.
- Experience supporting enterprise-level strategic initiatives and senior executive decision-making preferred.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.
- Master's degree or MBA preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to frame and solve complex, ambiguous, and future-oriented business questions.
- Ability to develop strategic hypotheses, evaluate alternative scenarios, assess tradeoffs, and recommend clear paths forward despite incomplete information.
- Ability to think beyond functional or business unit boundaries and develop recommendations that consider enterprise-wide impacts, interdependencies, and strategic tradeoffs.
- Strong stakeholder management and internal consulting skills, including the ability to build relationships, influence outcomes, and partner effectively with senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
- Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex information into concise, compelling recommendations and narratives for senior leadership audiences.
- Financial services industry experience preferred.
- 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.
- To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients.
- To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives.
- To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team.
- From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
- How We Work Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection.
- We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.