Strategy Analyst

Malvern, PA May 7, 2026 Full Time Workday

Owns specific projects on strategic analysis, competitive research, and product/service evaluation. Derives key insights for FAS through competitive research. Inform division wide strategy and decision making by analyzing complex data, diagnosing business issues or opportunities, evaluating FAS's strategy compared to our competitors, and uncovering ways to improve advisor and investor outcomes across business offerings. 

Responsibilities: 

  • Drive strong business outcomes through accurate, high impact, data-driven analyses, and is comfortable with ambiguity. 

  • Develop and manage effective working relationships with internal clients (primarily senior leaders) and key stakeholders/business partners. 

  • Create compelling storylines through which to deliver strategic, competitive, and product/offer analyses and recommendations to senior leaders. 

  • Provides direction and guidance to a team of strategy analysts aligned with each Vanguard line of business around key strategic topics and questions. 

  • Provides thought-leadership by identifying strategic topics and presenting compelling ideas for research evaluation to the Corporate Strategy organization. 

  • Participates in department-level planning for Vanguard, contributing insights derived from analysis and synthesis of the team. Manages client relationships and anticipates needs. 

  • Conducts efficient and thorough analyses of substantial (i.e., high impact) strategic issues confronting FAS utilizing strategic methodologies.  

  • Leverages and manages cross-functional teams as required. Prepares and presents strategic analysis, findings, and recommendations to senior management (e.g., story-lines, presentations, whitepapers). 

  • Develops and implements strategic plans to achieve departmental objectives. Works with senior management in the planning, development and execution of short and long range goals. 

  • Keeps abreast of industry, market and company trends, and partners with business leaders to understand key concerns and opportunities for each line of business; tailors analysis and synthesis around these topics. 

  • Participates in special projects and other duties as assigned. 

 

Qualifications: 

  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience (Master's degree or PhD preferred). 

  • Minimum of eight years’ business experience, including significant experience in strategy consulting and financial analysis. 

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.

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How to Get Hired at Vanguard

  • The Vanguard Group is the world's second-largest asset manager with ~$10T AUM and ~21,000 employees, headquartered on a 100-acre wooded campus at 100 Vanguard Boulevard in Malvern PA, with major U.S. offices in Charlotte NC, Phoenix AZ, and Scottsdale AZ, plus international offices in London, Melbourne, Mexico City, and Shanghai.
  • Vanguard is mutually owned by its own funds (and through them by the funds' investors) — there is no IPO, no parent company, no founding family equity stake, and no external shareholder. This structure is the source of the firm's roughly 0.07 percent average expense ratio and is referenced in nearly every internal cultural conversation. Engaging with this structure understandingly is the single biggest cultural-fit signal you can send.
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