What you’ll do:

• Redesign or build new executive talent management frameworks and tools to support evolving business needs and enhance senior leader experience.
• Streamline and scale succession planning processes by ensuring clarity on needs, existing talent and capabilities and the steps to close gaps.
• Build and maintain strategic pipelines through internal and external talent market mapping.
• Design and implement executive assessments that integrate quantitative analytics with qualitative leadership insights to enable objective, insight-driven decisions for hiring, mobility and development actions.
• Engage with Senior HRBPs and business leaders to facilitate critical talent processes.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team fostering cross-functional collaboration across HR COE’s, HRBPs, and business leaders.
• Partner closely with executive recruiters to ensure alignment across sourcing, assessment, and succession planning strategies.
• Partner closely with executive development leader and specialists to share insights, recommend evolution of development offers, and ensure effective deployment of succession plans.

What it takes:

Qualifications:

• Eight years related work experience, with at least three years of Talent Management experience. Supervisory experience preferred.
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.

Competencies:

• Strategic thinking & application
• Stakeholder management
• Change management
• Leadership
• Prioritization
• Decision making & judgment

Experiences:

• Experience designing and implementing talent programs and/or strategies.
• Led work in an HR (talent strategy/priorities) or business area in a complex, highly regulated or global organization.
• Contributed significantly to solving a critical business problem or delivering a large initiative from strategy to execution.
• Experience directly and indirectly leading across all levels (senior executives, peers, crew) in a cross functional environment.

Nice to have:

• Used talent data and insights to inform workforce planning and succession strategies.
• Built or scaled talent assessment practices to inform talent selection and mobility decisions.
• Presented enterprise talent strategy and outcomes to executive leadership or governance bodies.
• Experience leveraging technology and AI in talent processes.

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.