The Senior Product Marketing Manager is responsible for leading the marketing strategy, positioning, and go-to-market execution for Vanguard's Workplace Financial Well-Being offer. This role shapes the long-term marketing vision for how Vanguard articulates and delivers value to plan sponsors, consultants, and participants across the full workplace ecosystem. The individual serves as a strategic leader, aligning business priorities with market opportunities, driving audience-led marketing strategies, and partnering across teams to accelerate client retention, engagement, adoption, and business growth.
Responsibilities
- Lead development and execution of multi-year marketing strategies that position Vanguard's Financial Well-Being and Participant Financial Success offerings as key drivers of sponsor and participant outcomes.
- Translate business objectives, market opportunities, and client needs into actionable marketing strategies, annual plans, and measurable objectives.
- Define and evolve audience-specific positioning, value propositions, messaging frameworks, and value stories across plan sponsor, consultant, and participant audiences.
- Develop a deep understanding of audience needs, preferences, motivations, and decision-making dynamics to inform marketing investments and strategy.
- Develop audience segmentation frameworks, journey strategies, and marketing plans that address the unique needs of plan sponsors, consultants, and key buying committees across the workplace ecosystem.
- Leverage market research, client feedback, competitive intelligence, adoption data, and industry trends to identify opportunities and influence business priorities.
- Monitor industry, regulatory, competitive, and workforce trends to identify emerging opportunities and risks that may impact client needs, market demand, and Vanguard's growth strategy.
- Lead go-to-market planning and commercialization efforts for strategic initiatives, solutions, partnerships, and enhancements within the financial well-being ecosystem.
- Partner across Product, Sales, Relationship Management, Strategy, Analytics, Digital, Creative, and Integrated Campaign teams to deliver coordinated marketing programs and experiences.
- Influence stakeholders across functions and business lines to align on priorities, secure support, and drive execution against strategic objectives.
- Drive retention and expansion strategies by identifying opportunities to strengthen client engagement, increase solution adoption, and demonstrate business value.
- Lead retention and expansion marketing initiatives, identifying opportunities to deepen client relationships, increase engagement with Vanguard solutions, and support business growth objectives.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing insight-driven recommendations on audience strategy, market positioning, growth opportunities, and investment priorities.
- Represent Marketing as a strategic thought partner in business planning discussions, helping shape product, client experience, and commercialization priorities through audience and market insights.
- Lead annual and quarterly planning processes to align marketing roadmaps, resources, and investments with enterprise and business objectives.
- Establish and maintain measurement frameworks that assess performance, optimize marketing effectiveness, and support continuous improvement.
- Foster a test-and-learn culture that enables experimentation, innovation, and ongoing refinement of messaging, content, channels, and audience strategies.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum eight years related work experience, including five years of marketing experience.
- Experience developing and executing marketing strategies that drive engagement, adoption, retention, and growth within B2B and/or B2B2C environments.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence cross-functional partners and senior leaders.
- Undergraduate degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, or equivalent experience required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in retirement, workplace benefits, financial wellness, wealth management, or financial services marketing.
- Broad knowledge of Vanguard's investment product line-up and an understanding of the overall investment markets.
- Graduate degree 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.
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.
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.