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Senior Director, Transformation & Integration

3 days ago• Malvern, PA

Provides deep transformation expertise and functional leadership across large, complex, multi-stakeholder enterprise transformation programs. Serves as a recognized internal authority, directing senior specialists and influencing strategic enterprise post-acquisition integration priorities and execution decisions to accelerate business and client outcomes.

Core Responsibilities:

  • Determines the transformation approach for post-acquisition integration. Identifies transformation challenges and defines requirements across people, process, technology, operating model, and business readiness. Integrates work across major components and recommends solutions that address enterprise dependencies and accelerate intended business outcomes.
  • Serves as the escalation point for the most complex, ambiguous, or unprecedented integration issues. Evaluates data, enterprise dependencies, risks, control considerations, and competing perspectives to develop defensible recommendations and enable informed decisions.
  • Leads the development and continuous improvement of enterprise integration standards, playbooks, methodologies, and diagnostic tools. Provides guidance on enterprise transformation, strategic execution, and business readiness. Ensures transformation work aligns with overall enterprise strategy and relevant market conditions.
  • Builds and maintains strategic relationships across sites, departments, divisions, and internal and external partners to support enterprise transformation initiatives. Advises senior leaders, sponsors, and transformation teams on complex decisions, design alternatives, and implications. Uses enterprise perspective and insights to challenge assumptions, clarify trade-offs, and influence approaches and business outcomes.
  • Provides expert review and quality assurance for integration strategies, roadmaps, readiness assessments, and intervention plans. Identifies gaps, interdependencies, and unintended consequences and recommends changes before critical decisions or execution milestones.
  • Leverages deep transformation expertise to provide mentorship to senior specialists and other experienced team members across complex transformation work. Sets expectations, reviews and challenges approaches, coaches through novel issues, and builds enterprise transformation capability across the discipline.
  • Leads development of evaluation frameworks and measures for transformation success that help business partners assess readiness, adoption, effectiveness, value realization, and sustainability. Evaluates insights across initiatives to identify systemic themes, improve transformation practices, and inform future approaches and priorities.
  • Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

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Qualifications:

    • Minimum of ten years related work experience, with six years of business transformation or strategy consulting experience.
    • Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required. Graduate degree preferred.

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.

Client-provided location(s): Malvern, PA
Job ID: Vanguard-182505
Employment Type: FULL_TIME
Posted: 2026-10-03T22:20:57

Perks and Benefits

  • Health and Wellness

    • FSA
    • HSA
    • Health Reimbursement Account
    • Fitness Subsidies
    • On-Site Gym
    • HSA With Employer Contribution
    • Health Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Vision Insurance
    • Life Insurance
    • Short-Term Disability
    • Long-Term Disability
    • Mental Health Benefits
    • Virtual Fitness Classes
    • Pet Insurance
  • Parental Benefits

    • Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
    • Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
    • Fertility Benefits
    • Adoption Assistance Program
    • Family Support Resources
    • Adoption Leave
  • Work Flexibility

    • Flexible Work Hours
    • Hybrid Work Opportunities
  • Office Life and Perks

    • Company Outings
    • Commuter Benefits Program
    • Casual Dress
    • Happy Hours
    • Snacks
    • Some Meals Provided
    • On-Site Cafeteria
  • Vacation and Time Off

    • Personal/Sick Days
    • Paid Holidays
    • Paid Vacation
    • Volunteer Time Off
    • Leave of Absence
  • Financial and Retirement

    • Relocation Assistance
    • Performance Bonus
    • 401(K) With Company Matching
    • 401(K)
    • Financial Counseling
    • Profit Sharing
  • Professional Development

    • Promote From Within
    • Mentor Program
    • Shadowing Opportunities
    • Access to Online Courses
    • Tuition Reimbursement
    • Internship Program
    • Lunch and Learns
    • Leadership Training Program
  • Diversity and Inclusion

    • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
    • Employee Resource Groups (ERG)

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