Sales Analyst - Direct Indexing
Role Overview
Vanguard Personalized Indexing (VPI) builds individually customized, direct-indexing, separately managed account (SMA) portfolios for clients of Financial Advisors.
Leveraging decades of indexing and trading expertise, VPI provides unrivaled, daily transparency into the tax management, performance, and ESG/religious values of each account, enabling advisors to improve the investment experience and outcome for the clients they serve.
This role will be a key contributor to the sales strategy, enablement, competitive intelligence, reporting, and home office integration efforts of Vanguard Personalized Indexing (VPI).
Primarily internally focused, this highly independent VPI expert will own several high-impact initiatives and partner closely with Specialty & Field Sales, Marketing, Relationship Management, Operations, and Finance teams.
Key Skills for This Role
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Required Qualifications
- Minimum of five years of related work experience.
- High investment acumen, with the ability to understand and clearly communicate portfolio construction, tax management, indexing, and related investment concepts.
- Strong project management skills, exceptional attention to detail, and a proven ability to coordinate complex, cross-functional work from planning through execution.
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently, take full ownership of high-impact initiatives, and exercise sound judgment in ambiguous or evolving situations.
- Proven track record of using artificial intelligence, automation, or other technology-enabled approaches to solve problems, automate work, and improve processes.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into clear, practical recommendations for business partners and senior leaders.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in direct indexing, personalized indexing, SMAs, investment management, distribution strategy, sales enablement, or financial-services platform integration.
- Experience in private wealth management, portfolio construction, investment product management, tax-aware investing, or tax management.
- Experience supporting sales strategy, sales enablement, distribution strategy, or investment-product distribution.
- Experience with bank, broker-dealer, registered investment adviser, or wealth-management distribution channels.
- Experience coordinating financial-services platform integrations, investment due diligence, requests for information, or approval processes.
- Special Factors
- Sponsorship
- Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
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.
About Vanguard
Global investment management firm owned by its client funds.
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