Global Risk and Security (GR&S) at Vanguard enables business strategy, protects client and Vanguard interests (e.g., assets and data), and stewards a strong risk culture. Our teams leverage enterprise-wide insights, deep expertise, and trusted advice so that across Vanguard leaders and crew drive faster, stronger, risk-informed decisions.

　　Within GR&S, the Enterprise Security and Fraud (ES&F) sub-division is responsible for the global protection of Vanguard crew, property, data, and client assets. We are the trusted advisors that protect the pride of Vanguard with state-of-the-art security and fraud capabilities. We are a world-class destination of highly engaged, passionate, and diverse talent expected to continuously learn and develop in an ever-changing security landscape.

　　Within the ES&F sub-division, the ES&F Strategic Services (ESS) team creates value by driving the strategic and enablement agenda for the business of ES&F, ensuring better horizontal alignment, consistency, and collaboration within the six departments of ES&F globally and furthering ES&F’s timely vertical integration with the GR&S division and our Information Technology (IT) partners.

　　T he Cybersecurity Portfolio Planning and Operations Lead - Enterprise Security + Fraud will be a key member of the ESS Operations team. In this role, you will:

　　Lead and improve the annual business planning process for the ES&F portfolio of work especially the strategic investments portfolio

　　Drive the business cases in partnership with the ES&F department heads and their leadership teams to allow for prioritization and governance of the portfolio

　　Coordinate across ES&F departments to serve as a central point for collating and maintaining portfolio level details with accuracy

　　Maintain portfolio level details within various systems of record (Planview, JIRA, Confluence, AgilePlace, Tasktop Viz etc.) as their usage evolves

　　Represent the ES&F portfolio of work within the IT sub-division’s portfolio planning process known as IT driven initiatives (IT DI) to ensure that the work is appropriately prioritized and executed in a timely manner

　　Communicate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization to ensure an understanding of the portfolio and transparency into the actions needed for stakeholder buy-in and successful execution

　　Partner closely with the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and IT Divisional Strategic Services (ITSS) and GR&S Divisional Strategic Services (DSS) teams to drive execution of business planning activities such as organization goals / OKRs, budgets, work portfolio identification and prioritization, scorecards etc.

　　Drive clarity of budgets, resource estimates / needs and ROI estimates in partnership with the ES&F departments and the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team

　　Partner with other members of the ES&F Operations team to enable a shift to a more product, services and capability oriented portfolio over time through the adoption of Agile, lean portfolio management, product management, value stream mapping and client experience (CX) practices (as needed)

　　What it takes:

　　Cyber security, technical acumen including cloud literacy required

　　Experience managing technical programs; technical portfolio management and planning skills

　　Understanding of product management and operations

　　Strong interpersonal, facilitation and consensus building skills

　　Ability to obtain cooperation and build trust with peers and at the executive level while skillfully navigating organizational dynamics

　　Ability to connect the dots between disparate and discrete pieces of information that may be incomplete at times

　　Ability to build lasting relationships and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels

　　Ability to create PowerPoint presentations that are informative and engaging and deliver them to various audiences including executive management

　　Strong Excel skills and the ability to convert data into insights

　　Learning dexterity to build acumen rapidly when new tools are introduced

　　Analytical and financial acumen especially around capital allocation, chargebacks, ROI / NPV calculations and budget / actuals / forecast reconciliations is a plus

　　Familiarity with Planview and Atlassian product suite – specifically, Planview Portfolios (Enterprise One), Planview AgilePlace (LeanKit), Planview Viz (Tasktop Viz), JIRA, Confluence is a plus

　　Formal training and certification in technical project, program and portfolio management is a plus; PMP, Six Sigma, Scrum Master, or Product Management certifications (CSPO, SaFe Agilist, SaFe Lean Portfolio Management) are a plus

　　Special Factors

　　Sponsorship

　　Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

　　About Vanguard

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