Vanguard Group, Inc.

Manager, Retail Marketing Project Management Team

Posted on: 21 Mar 2021

Malvern, PA

Job Description

Reimagining the way marketing adds value to the business
The Retail Marketing leadership team has spent the last several months developing a future state organization that will enable us to become a leading marketing company. Driven by core tenets of modern marketing agile marketing, digital experience, Big Data, customer-centricity, compelling content, and marketing automation we focused on designing structures and processes that will enable us to achieve new levels of retail growth.

The Retail Marketing team has an opening for a Manager-Retail Marketing Project Management Team. As the Manager-Project Management Team, you will lead a team of talented Project Managers responsible for managing and deploying marketing projects and assets to market. Ideal candidates will have a strong operational background with a track record of driving continuous improvement on teams to reduce cycle time, improve quality and standardize processes across a department. Candidates should also be able to navigate multiple relationships to achieve their operational outcomes and attract support to the improvement initiatives they drive.

In this role, you will:

* Hire, evaluate, and supervise crew. Provide guidance and training as necessary to develop crew. Set performance standards, review performance, and make informed compensation decisions in accordance with all applicable Human Resources policies and procedures.

* Manage crew and project activities. Follow all phases of the project lifecycle from inception through implementation while ensuring that business objectives are delivered with high quality and within targeted timeframes.

* Oversee all project-level communication and change management activities in support of all project workstreams. Supervise capacity, complexity, and scope of project messaging and delivery of all communications.

* Build and maintain relationships across sub-divisions and both internal and external partners to support project initiatives. Develop strong relationships with project leadership and workstream leads. Influence key decisions across stakeholders.

* Assist team with the identification, evaluation, and resolution of potential obstacles which may have an impact on the completion of projects or communications. Elevate items of high concern to senior management, focusing on recommended courses of action.

Fulfilling Your Mission

This group shares in Vanguards mission to take a stand for all investors. You will support this mission while driving the organization forward through the continuous development of both new and existing crew. You'll gain consensus on strategy, positioning, and story ideas through your keen ability to engage and influence others within the Retail Marketing space. Are you up for the challenge?

What it takes:

* Minimum of three years related work experience. Two years of managing a project team. Financial Services or function-specific experience preferred.

* Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience.

***Vanguard does not provide sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

We are Vanguard. Together, were changing the way the world invests.

For us, investing doesnt just end in value. It starts with values. Because when you invest with courage, when you invest with clarity, and when you invest with care, you can get so much more in return. We invest with purpose and thats how weve become a global market leader. Here, we grow by doing the right thing for the people we serve. And so can you.

We want to make success accessible to everyone. This is our opportunity. Lets make it count.

Inclusion Statement

Vanguards continued commitment to diversity and inclusion is firmly rooted in our culture. Every decision we make to best serve our clients, crew (internally employees are referred to as crew), and communities is guided by one simple statement: Do the right thing.

We believe that a critical aspect of doing the right thing requires building diverse, inclusive, and highly effective teams of individuals who are as unique as the clients they serve. We empower our crew to contribute their distinct strengths to achieving Vanguards core purpose through our values.

When all crew members feel valued and included, our ability to collaborate and innovate is amplified, and we are united in delivering on Vanguards core purpose.

Our core purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

Vanguard Group, Inc.

Malvern, PA

The Vanguard Group is an American registered investment advisor based in Malvern, Pennsylvania with over $5.3 trillion in assets under management. It is the largest provider of mutual funds and the second-largest provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the world after BlackRock's iShares. In addition to mutual funds and ETFs, Vanguard offers brokerage services, variable and fixed annuities, educational account services, financial planning, asset management, and trust services.

Founder and former chairman John C. Bogle is credited with the creation of the first index fund available to individual investors, and was a proponent and major enabler of low-cost investing by individuals. Vanguard is structured as a mutual company; it is owned by funds managed by the company, and is therefore owned by its customers. Vanguard offers two classes of most of its funds: investor shares and admiral shares. Admiral shares have slightly lower expense ratios but require a higher minimum investment, often between $10,000 and $100,000 per fund.

In addition to mutual funds and ETFs, Vanguard offers brokerage services, variable and fixed annuities, educational account services, financial planning, asset management, and trust services. Several mutual funds managed by Vanguard are ranked at the top of the list of US mutual funds by assets under management.

Vanguard's corporate headquarters is in Malvern, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. It has satellite offices in Charlotte, North Carolina and Scottsdale, Arizona. The company also has offices in Australia, Asia, and Europe.