Partnerships Specialist, Business Unit Strategy

Vanguard is embarking on an exciting new phase of growth and is seeking a Strategic Partnership Specialist to join our newly created Partnership Enablement team. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in expanding and strengthening Vanguard's partnership ecosystem across the UK and Continental Europe.

Working at the intersection of strategy, partnerships, commercial analysis, and market intelligence, you'll help drive key decisions that influence how Vanguard collaborates with some of Europe's most important distribution, advisory, and investment partners.

This role is ideal for a commercially minded professional who enjoys solving complex problems, turning data into strategic insight, and influencing senior stakeholders through clear recommendations and compelling storytelling.

What You'll Be Doing

Drive Partnership Strategy Through Insight

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

Deliver Meaningful Commercial Analysis

You'll 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.

• 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 workstreams 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)

• Please note that we review applications on a rolling basis and may close this role early if there is a high level of interest. To avoid missing out, we recommend applying as soon as possible