Partnerships Specialist, Business Unit Strategy

What You'll Be Doing

Drive Partnership Strategy Through Insight

You will lead analytical work streams that support the development, evaluation, and optimisation of Vanguard's partnership portfolio. By combining commercial, market, and competitive intelligence, you will help shape partnership strategies and business decisions that drive long-term growth.

Deliver Meaningful Commercial Analysis

You will tackle complex partnership opportunities, evaluating bespoke arrangements and assessing their impact across operations, reporting, data, and client outcomes. Your ability to connect insights with commercial objectives will help guide decision-making at every stage.

Understand the Market and Spot Opportunities

You will stay closely connected to industry developments, emerging partnership models, and competitor activity, translating market intelligence into actionable recommendations that help Vanguard maintain its leadership position.

Create Clear and Compelling Narratives

Whether developing executive presentations, partnership review materials, or strategic insight packs, you will transform complex information into concise, impactful stories that resonate with stakeholders at all levels.

Collaborate Across the Business

You will work closely with partnership teams, distribution, product, strategy, operations, and senior leadership, building strong relationships and acting as a trusted partner in driving business priorities forward.

We're interested in candidates who bring a combination of analytical rigour, commercial thinking, and stakeholder management skills, ideally gained within asset management, wealth management, financial services, consulting, fintech, or a related industry.

You'll need to have:

• Experience in strategy, partnerships, business development, commercial analysis, consulting, or a related function.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving capabilities, with the ability to interpret complex data and identify meaningful insights.
• Commercial acumen and confidence evaluating opportunities, risks, and trade‑offs.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with experience influencing a range of stakeholders.
• A natural curiosity about market trends, industry developments, and competitive dynamics.
• The ability to work independently, manage multiple priorities, and drive work streams from concept through to recommendation.
• Experience creating high‑quality presentations, business cases, and strategic recommendations for senior audiences.

• Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
• This is a hybrid position and would require you to work in the office 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday).

This is an opportunity to join a newly established, high‑visibility team with the mandate to shape how Vanguard's partnership ecosystem evolves across Europe. You'll gain exposure to senior stakeholders, strategic initiatives, and some of the firm's most important growth opportunities.

If you're excited by the prospect of combining commercial strategy, partnerships, market insight, and business transformation in a role with real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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.