Vanguard’s distribution strategies continue to evolve in both scale and complexity. As sales interactions become more personalized, iterative, and product driven, this evolution highlights an opportunity to further align regulatory, governance, and enablement frameworks with today’s operating environment—supporting more efficient execution and greater clarity for frontline teams.
This role supports a dedicated Sales Regulatory Enablement function with a clear mandate: enable Distribution’s ability to deliver on key distribution and product strategies in a compliant way, while strengthening regulatory confidence, consistency, and speed to market.
This role will lead regulatory enablement efforts across complex Sales-led initiatives and act as a strategic advisor to ensure business activities, processes, and communications are compliant, well-controlled, and aligned with regulatory expectations.
Core Responsibilities
- Leads regulatory enablement activities across initiatives and business processes, ensuring alignment with applicable rules, regulations, and internal policy requirements. Manages projects or multiple workstreams within a broader project or program. Develops, implements, and monitors project plans. Contributes expertise to major project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks.
- Provides insight on best practices and common obstacles based on prior experiences. Serves as a trusted advisor to ensure projects are aligned with the overall company strategy and market conditions. Serves as a subject matter expert on regulatory requirements, providing guidance on interpretation, applicability, and implementation. Partners with Business, Legal, Compliance, and Risk to translate requirements into actionable controls and operational practices.
- Reviews and challenges business processes, client communications, and deliverables to ensure regulatory compliance, accuracy, and client clarity. Provides oversight and support where risks or gaps are identified.
- Communicates project status and issues regularly to stakeholders, including leaders, team members, and senior managers.
- Builds and maintains effective relationships. Proactively fosters communication between internal and external project stakeholders. Influences key decisions across stakeholder groups, ensuring regulatory considerations are balanced with business objectives and client experience.
- Identifies, assesses, and mitigates regulatory and operational risks. Proactively surfaces issues, drives resolution strategies, and escalates as appropriate to senior leadership and control partners.
- Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned, with a focus on strengthening regulatory compliance and enablement capabilities.
Qualifications
- Minimum of five years related work experience. Two years of managing a project preferred. Financial Services and function-specific experience preferred.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required. Graduate degree preferred.
Preferred Skills
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, multi‑year initiatives that require both project management and change management expertise, ideally in regulated or risk‑focused environments.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence across levels, functions, and competing priorities.
- Experience in risk management, controls, audit, or compliance is highly valued.
- Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, structure work, and drive results in evolving program environments.
- A collaborative, consultative leadership style with a passion for improving how work gets done and enabling sustainable change.
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.
Skills Required
- Minimum of five years related work experience
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience
- Two years of managing a project
- Graduate degree
- Financial services and function-specific experience
- Experience in risk management, controls, audit, or compliance
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
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Retirement Support — Retirement support appears unusually strong through a 401(k) design that includes a match plus an additional employer contribution, which can materially lift long-term total rewards. HSA seeding and an enhanced employer match further strengthen the savings-and-benefits value of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle support is reinforced by a sizable annual FlexFund stipend that can be applied across many day-to-day categories such as fitness, childcare, and other personal expenses. On-site or virtual clinics and fitness options add practical health and wellness convenience.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare and related benefits are positioned as comparatively affordable via heavily subsidized medical plans and broad coverage options. This affordability can offset moderate base pay for employees who place higher value on out-of-pocket cost reductions.
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What We Do
We are a community of 30 million who think – and feel – differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests. Since our founding in 1975, helping our investors achieve their goals is our sole reason for existence. With no other parties to answer to and therefore no conflicting loyalties, we make every decision—like keeping investing costs as low as possible—with only your needs in mind. Vanguard is one of the world's largest investment companies, offering a large selection of high-quality low-cost mutual funds, ETFs, advice, and related services. Individual and institutional investors, financial professionals, and plan sponsors can benefit from the size, stability, and experience Vanguard offers. As of April 30, 2019, we managed more than $5.6 trillion in global assets. In addition, we have 189 funds in the United States and 225 funds in global markets. For Commenting Guidelines & Important information, visit here: http://vanguard.com/linkedin Vanguard Marketing Corporation, Distributor.
