Associate Investment Product Management & Governance Specialist

The Role

The Product Management and Governance (PMG) team plays a critical role in shaping and overseeing Vanguard Europe’s fund range, ensuring that our products continue to deliver strong client outcomes while meeting evolving regulatory and market expectations.

This role offers the opportunity to work at the centre of Vanguard’s product organisation, partnering with senior stakeholders across Investments, Risk, Legal, Distribution and Operations to influence the strategic direction, governance and evolution of our European fund range.

Responsibilities to include

• Product governance and fund oversight: manages key elements of the product governance framework for Vanguard Europe funds, ensuring robust oversight across performance, risk, compliance, costs, and client outcomes. Supports engagement with Fund Boards, management companies, and governance committees on matters relating to existing funds, partnering closely with Company Secretariat on board materials and decision support. Helps ensure fund governance activities meet regulatory expectations across relevant European and other international UCITS jurisdictions

• Ongoing fund management and fund health: drives the ongoing management of existing fund ranges, supporting clear accountability for fund health, sustainability, and client value. Leads the identification, assessment, and remediation of fund health issues, including underperformance, scale challenges, or structural concerns. Coordinates fund closure activity where required, ensuring controlled execution and strong client and regulatory outcomes

• Assessments of Value and Fund Value Assessments: manages the delivery and governance of Assessments of Value and Fund Value Assessments across the European fund range. Ensures assessments are analytically robust, client-focused, and clearly articulated for Boards and senior stakeholders. Drives actions arising from AoV and FVA outcomes and ensures progress is tracked and evidenced

• Regulatory change delivery: supports regulatory change impacting existing funds, including impact assessment, solution design, and delivery through to implementation. Partners with Legal, Compliance, Regulatory Operations, Risk, and Investments to help ensure requirements are interpreted consistently and implemented effectively. Helps ensure regulatory-driven fund changes are prioritised appropriately and delivered in a controlled and timely manner

• Fund changes, amendments and structural evolution: leads research, analysis, coordination, and governance support for material fund changes, including benchmark changes, fee changes, investment objective updates, and structural amendments. Ensures proposed changes are supported by clear rationale, robust analysis, and appropriate governance approvals. Balances regulatory, commercial, and client considerations in shaping recommendations

• Stakeholder partnership and influence: partners with Investments, Distribution, Marketing, Operations, Risk, and Legal on matters relating to existing funds and product governance. Provides clear, balanced recommendations grounded in client outcomes, regulatory requirements, and commercial insight

• Enterprise contribution: contributes to enterprise-wide initiatives, cross-functional programs, and special projects as required. Shares best practice across PRD and supports continuous improvement in governance processes, controls, and reporting

• Representation and cross-functional coordination: Serves as a key PRD representative in the Dublin office, building strong local connections and coordinating across functions to align priorities, facilitate effective discussion and support the delivery of PRD initiatives

What it takes

• Experience in product governance, product management, fund oversight, asset management, investment operations, risk, regulatory change or a related discipline within financial services
• Knowledge of investment products and fund structures, ideally within UCITS or other regulated fund environments
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex information and translate insights into clear recommendations and actions
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with confidence engaging and influencing colleagues across multiple functions and levels of seniority
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, navigate ambiguity and deliver high-quality outcomes in a fast-paced environment
• A collaborative mindset, intellectual curiosity and a passion for improving client outcomes
• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• CFA, IMC or other relevant investment or professional qualification preferred

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)

• Please note that, although we offer hybrid working, all work must be performed within the Republic of Ireland to ensure compliance with tax requirements and to mitigate the risks associated with working outside your country of employment.  If you are not able to work fully from the Republic of Ireland, please notify the recruiter

• Please note that we review applications on a rolling basis and may close this role early if there is a high level of interest. To avoid missing out, we recommend applying as soon as possible

Why Vanguard? 

Vanguard is a different kind of investment company. It was founded in the United States in 1975 on a simple but revolutionary idea: that an investment company should manage its funds solely in the interests of its clients. 

This is a philosophy that has helped millions of people around the world to achieve their goals with low-cost, uncomplicated investments. 

It's what we stand for: value to investors. 

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.