Senior Regulatory Enablement Specialist

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.

• Leads regulatory enablement activities across initiatives and business processes, ensuring alignment with applicable rules, regulations, and internal policy requirements. Manages projects or multiple work streams 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.