Senior Director, Transformation & Integration

The Vanguard Group; Malvern (Chester County); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Vanguard Group seeks an senior transformation leader to guide enterprise post-acquisition integration and drive cross‑functional execution. You will shape transformation approaches, manage senior specialists, and influence critical decisions to accelerate business and client outcomes.

With a decade of transformation experience, you will define requirements across people, process and technology, align major components, and mentor teams while ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and

Qualifications

• 10+ years related work experience in transformation or strategy consulting.
• At least 6 years in business transformation or strategy consulting.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent required.
• Graduate degree preferred.
• Special factors: visa sponsorship not offered.

Responsibilities

• Provides deep transformation expertise and functional leadership across large, complex programs.
• Directs senior specialists and influences integration priorities and execution decisions.
• Determines the transformation approach for post-acquisition integration.
• Identifies transformation challenges and defines requirements across people, process, tech, operating model and readiness.
• Integrates work across major components and recommends solutions addressing dependencies.

Skills

Transformation leadership

Stakeholder management

Enterprise strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Graduate degree preferred

Job description

Core Responsibilities

• Provides deep transformation expertise and functional leadership across large, complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise transformation programs.
• Serves as a recognized internal authority, directing senior specialists and influencing strategic enterprise post-acquisition integration priorities and execution decisions to accelerate business and client outcomes.
• Core Responsibilities: Determines the transformation approach for post-acquisition integration.
• Identifies transformation challenges and defines requirements across people, process, technology, operating model, and business readiness.
• Integrates work across major components and recommends solutions that address enterprise dependencies and accelerate intended business outcomes.
• Serves as the escalation point for the most complex, ambiguous, or unprecedented integration issues.
• Evaluates data, enterprise dependencies, risks, control considerations, and competing perspectives to develop defensible recommendations and enable informed decisions.
• Leads the development and continuous improvement of enterprise integration standards, playbooks, methodologies, and diagnostic tools.
• Provides guidance on enterprise transformation, strategic execution, and business readiness.
• Ensures transformation work aligns with overall enterprise strategy and relevant market conditions.
• Builds and maintains strategic relationships across sites, departments, divisions, and internal and external partners to support enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Advises senior leaders, sponsors, and transformation teams on complex decisions, design alternatives, and implications.
• Uses enterprise perspective and insights to challenge assumptions, clarify trade-offs, and influence approaches and business outcomes.
• Provides expert review and quality assurance for integration strategies, roadmaps, readiness assessments, and intervention plans.
• Identifies gaps, interdependencies, and unintended consequences and recommends changes before critical decisions or execution milestones.
• Leverages deep transformation expertise to provide mentorship to senior specialists and other experienced team members across complex transformation work.
• Sets expectations, reviews and challenges approaches, coaches through novel issues, and builds enterprise transformation capability across the discipline.
• Leads development of evaluation frameworks and measures for transformation success that help business partners assess readiness, adoption, effectiveness, value realization, and sustainability.
• Evaluates insights across initiatives to identify systemic themes, improve transformation practices, and inform future approaches and priorities.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum of ten years related work experience, with six years of business transformation or strategy consulting experience.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required.
• Graduate degree preferred.
• Special Factors Sponsorship Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

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. Vanguard, one of the world's leading investment management companies, serves individual investors, institutions, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and financial professionals. We have a diverse and talented crew with a culture that promotes teamwork, along with an unwavering focus on serving our clients' best interests.