Senior Manager, Executive Talent Management

Vanguard is seeking a strategic leader to evolve our executive talent management approach, including talent identification and assessments, succession planning and sourcing across internal and external markets. This role is about reimagining how we identify, assess, and develop our current and future executives. You’ll be at the forefront of designing and delivering innovative processes and frameworks to elevate our executive talent management offer. If you’re energized by big-picture thinking, cross functional collaboration, and driving measurable outcomes, this could be your next move.

What you’ll do:

• Redesign or build new executive talent management frameworks and tools to support evolving business needs and enhance senior leader experience.
• Streamline and scale succession planning processes by ensuring clarity on needs, existing talent and capabilities and the steps to close gaps.
• Build and maintain strategic pipelines through internal and external talent market mapping.
• Design and implement executive assessments that integrate quantitative analytics with qualitative leadership insights to enable objective, insight-driven decisions for hiring, mobility and development actions.
• Engage with Senior HRBPs and business leaders to facilitate critical talent processes.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team fostering cross-functional collaboration across HR COE’s, HRBPs, and business leaders.
• Partner closely with executive recruiters to ensure alignment across sourcing, assessment, and succession planning strategies.
• Partner closely with executive development leader and specialists to share insights, recommend evolution of development offers, and ensure effective deployment of succession plans.

What it takes:

Qualifications:

• Eight years related work experience, with at least three years of Talent Management experience. Supervisory experience preferred.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.

Competencies:

• Strategic thinking & application
• Stakeholder management
• Change management
• Leadership
• Prioritization
• Decision making & judgment

Experiences:

• Experience designing and implementing talent programs and/or strategies.
• Led work in an HR (talent strategy/priorities) or business area in a complex, highly regulated or global organization.
• Contributed significantly to solving a critical business problem or delivering a large initiative from strategy to execution.
• Experience directly and indirectly leading across all levels (senior executives, peers, crew) in a cross functional environment.

Nice to have:

• Used talent data and insights to inform workforce planning and succession strategies.
• Built or scaled talent assessment practices to inform talent selection and mobility decisions.
• Presented enterprise talent strategy and outcomes to executive leadership or governance bodies.
• Experience leveraging technology and AI in talent processes.

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.