Business Project Coordinator, Senior Associate

About Vanguard
Founded in 1975, Vanguard is one of the world's leading investment management companies. The firm offers investments, advice, and retirement services to tens of millions of individual investors around the globe-directly, through workplace plans, and through financial intermediaries.

Vanguard's India Office

Vanguard's office in India is a significant milestone in our global expansion. We are committed to establishing an enduring technology center in Hyderabad, Telangana and are excited to be adding talent who will focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), mobile, and cloud-based technologies that drive our business outcomes and deliver a world-class experience for our clients.

Role Summary

This role leads project planning, scheduling, and coordinating activities. Accountable for daily objectives and project activities. It also contributes to standardizing project management practices and consolidating reporting for enterprise-level visibility.

Core Responsibilities

• Completes activities in workstreams of a limited scope or assigned sections of a larger initiative. Monitors the progress of team and tasks, and ensures project milestones are met. Supports project managers with project scheduling and drafting project plans and budgets.
• Builds and maintains effective relationships with stakeholders. Identifies, evaluates and elevates risks and issues that have the potential of impacting the completion of the project. Acts as a business liaison by engaging resources and employing management strategies to resolve problems that impact the project. Negotiates and puts forward implementation approaches for alternative solutions as needed.
• Participates in project meetings, documents the progress of projects and communicates the status of projects to appropriate audiences, including formal presentations and status reports to internal stakeholders.
• Works with appropriate parties to plan, schedule, coordinate, and manage business activities to deliver projects. Assist teams in determining scope, requirements, and implementation of solutions.
• Provides accurate and timely updates to the management team and department as needed. Follows up on assigned areas to ensure adherence to timeline and documents all projects and assignments. Identifies and documents project risks.
• Contributes to the development of project management templates, tools, and best practices to standardize execution across teams.
• Tracks interdependencies across multiple concurrent projects to support timely risk identification and mitigation.
• May assist governance functions by reviewing adherence to approved methodologies, budget allocations, and timelines.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years of experience in project or program management, preferably in financial services or technology-driven organizations.
• Bachelor's degree (B.E./B.Tech) in Cybersecurity, Information Security, Computer Science, or related field.
• Skills include Incident Response, Network Security, Endpoint Security, Cloud Security, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), with proficiency across platforms like Windows, Unix, and Network systems.
• Strong in critical thinking, effective verbal, and written communication, collaborative problem-solving, time management, and multitasking under pressure.
• Ability to work under pressure and respond swiftly to security incidents, with strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Location

This role is based in Hyderabad, Telangana at Vanguard's India office. Only qualified external applicants will be considered.

Our mission

Vanguard adheres to a simple purpose: To take a stand for all investors, to treat them fairly, and to give them the best chance for investment success.

Our commitment to you

Vanguard takes the same long-term view of your success-at work and in life-with Benefits and Rewards packages that reflect what you care about, throughout all the phases and stages of your life. Our Total Rewards programs provide you and your loved ones with wellness support for key areas in your life:

Financial wellness
We're committed to enabling your financial success and provide competitive offers and programs.

Physical wellness
We're committed to providing benefits that support your physical health and wellness.

Personal wellness
We're committed to providing resources that help support the full scope of your life.

How we work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for most of our employees (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.

Client-provided location(s): Hyderabad, India

Job ID: Vanguard-173416

Employment Type: FULL_TIME

Posted: 2025-12-19T20:23:19