Strategic Partnerships & Growth Initiatives Lead

Vanguard Group; Lees (PA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard Group seeks a Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships Lead to identify, develop, and launch strategic partnerships that advance enterprise priorities and create value for clients. The role spans enterprise strategy, business development, and partnership execution, connecting internal priorities with external ecosystems.

Responsibilities include translating priorities into partnership opportunities, leading assessments, analyzing markets, supporting negotiations, and coaching teams on

Qualifications

• Excellent judgment, communication, presentation, negotiation, persuasion, and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate enterprise aspirations, strategic priorities, and business needs into partnership opportunities delivering both quantitative and qualitative analyses, including financial models and scenario analysis, to estimate potential value.
• Lead Build / Buy / Partner assessments for strategic capability gaps and growth opportunities, including business-case development and scenario analysis.
• Conduct market, ecosystem, and competitive analysis to identify emerging opportunities and assess potential partners based on strategic fit and complementary capabilities.
• Support the design, structuring, and negotiation of strategic partnerships by developing commercial models, governance frameworks, operating structures, and key business terms.
• Support development of partnership frameworks, tools, and best practices that improve how Vanguard identifies, evaluates, and structures strategic partnerships
• Work independently with attention to detail and sensitivity to deadlines. Lead individual workstreams of a deal and contribute to larger deal team.
• Coach less experienced crew in financial methodologies, partnership frameworks and approaches, and inorganic growth best practices based on deep knowledge of emerging trends and industry standards.
• Strong conceptual thinking and time management, as well as analytical, problem solving, negotiation, and persuasion skills.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

Job description

Vanguard Group seeks a Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships Lead to identify, develop, and launch strategic partnerships that advance enterprise priorities and create value for clients. The role spans enterprise strategy, business development, and partnership execution, connecting internal priorities with external ecosystems.

Responsibilities include translating priorities into partnership opportunities, leading assessments, analyzing markets, supporting negotiations, and coaching teams on