Senior Specialist, Executive Talent Management

About the role

This is a high-impact role for someone who wants to build enterprise-level talent infrastructure, influence senior leaders, and see their work directly improve succession, development, readiness, and inclusion across a global organization. You will have the opportunity to simplify complexity, elevate decision quality, and leave a lasting mark on how Vanguard grows and develops its most critical leaders.

Responsibilities

• Shape enterprise impact by evolving succession planning, talent review, assessment, executive development, and mobility into a cohesive, forward-looking talent approach that improves clarity, objectivity, and decision quality.
• Build what lasts by designing simple, scalable executive talent frameworks and standards that work across businesses and geographies while supporting enterprise consistency and inclusion.
• Modernize how work gets done by leveraging technology, data, and automation to reduce friction, improve insight, and enable fairer, more transparent decisions.
• Be close to the work through hands-on execution of succession and contingency planning for business-critical roles—identify risk, uncover opportunity, and close gaps through development, mobility, retention, and external pipelines.
• Elevate assessment and potential identification by helping define enterprise talent standards and assessment approaches that inform succession, development, and movement of senior talent.
• Connect strategy to development by partnering with Leadership Development to ensure executive development investments are tightly aligned to succession priorities and role-critical capabilities.
• Influence the full talent ecosystem by partnering with Executive Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partners, and external experts to align success profiles, workforce planning insights, and internal and external pipelines.
• Prove value through insight by evaluating the impact of talent programs using meaningful data and translating insights into continuous improvement and sustained enterprise value.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in talent management, organizational strategy, consulting, or a related field. Human capital consulting experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience designing, integrating, and scaling executive talent processes (e.g., succession planning, talent review, assessment)
• Strong ability to simplify and improve processes through practical, value-focused enhancements
• Experience enabling talent processes through technology, data, and automation
• Success designing global talent frameworks that balance enterprise consistency with local relevance
• Proven experience closing executive talent gaps through development, mobility, coaching, and external hiring
• Strong change management skills in complex, matrixed organizations
• Able to partner effectively across HR COEs, HR Business Partners, Leadership Development, Culture, Inclusion & Engagement, and senior leaders
• Data-driven mindset with the ability to translate insights into action
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.