The Role
Drive the engine behind product strategy. As an Investment Product Planning Analyst, you’ll play a central role in keeping our product roadmap, planning cycles, governance, and reporting on track. Working closely with PRD leadership, you’ll coordinate inputs, shape high-quality materials, and turn complex information into clear, actionable insights.
- Support the maintenance and socialisation of the UCITS product roadmap by updating trackers, collating inputs, maintaining version control, and preparing summary views for stakeholders
- Assist with product offer assessment by coordinating information and summarising key themes for planning discussions
- Provide logistics and coordination for PRD leadership meetings, planning sessions, and offsites (agendas, pre‑read collation, action logs, and follow‑ups)
- Draft meeting notes and maintain action/decision trackers to ensure follow‑through and visibility of progress
- Support development of high‑quality presentations by building first drafts, updating content, proofing, formatting, and turning data into clear charts/tables for leadership use
- Prepare concise summaries and briefing packs on planning topics or product strategy themes to support internal forums and decision points
- Support the preparation of governance materials by coordinating inputs, maintaining templates, ensuring documents are complete, and helping to draft or edit papers for governance bodies
- Assist with internal governance responsibilities and progress reporting (e.g., compiling status updates for product plan progress and maintaining supporting trackers)
- Produce regularly scheduled reports and communications by consolidating updates from owners, checking consistency, and drafting clear narrative summaries for leadership audiences
- Provide project support across cross‑functional initiatives
- Support wider planning work that may include basic forecasting/resource tracking support (where applicable) by maintaining inputs and producing simple roll‑ups
- Daily interaction with PRD leadership team and planning leads to capture updates and coordinate outputs
- Regular coordination with cross‑functional partners to gather inputs for roadmaps, governance papers, and project deliverables
Qualifications
- Strong organisation, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple deadlines in parallel (meetings, materials, reporting cycles)
- Clear written communication and confidence producing polished documents and presentations
- Comfortable working with data in Excel and turning it into simple, leadership‑friendly outputs (tables/charts)
- Collaborative style and ability to build effective working relationships across teams to gather inputs
Special Factors
- Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position
- This is a hybrid position and would require you to work in the office 3 days per week (Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday)
