Manger, ASR Program Delivery

Leadership Impact Expectations

A successful Manager, ASR Program Delivery:

• Creates clarity where ambiguity exists and brings order to complexity.
• Ensures ASR programs deliver predictable results with high transparency.
• Strengthens alignment across leadership and accelerates decision‑making.
• Elevates operational discipline and governance maturity across ASR.
• Builds a high‑performing delivery organization that scales with ASR’s growing mission.
• Enables the Head of ASR and ASR Leadership Team to operate at maximum strategic impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the ASR Program Delivery team, establishing delivery standards, operating rhythms, reporting practices, and execution expectations across all ASR workstreams.
• Own portfolio planning, milestone tracking, risk and dependency management, and cross-functional coordination to ensure delivery predictability and transparency.
• Maintain a centralized risk/dependency register and proactively drive mitigation, escalation, and decision-readiness for senior leaders.
• Produce high-quality dashboards, leadership reporting, OKRs, and performance insights that reflect the health, impact, and velocity of ASR initiatives.
• Operate the ASR Leadership Team cadence—including agendas, decision logs, materials, and action tracking—to ensure alignment and execution follow-through.
• Partner closely with Security Readiness, AppSec Modernization, Threat Modeling & Validation, EASM, and Vulnerability Management to synchronize plans and reduce friction across workstreams.
• Support the Head of ASR as a strategic integrator—shaping messaging, synthesizing insights, preparing executive materials, and ensuring readiness for key forums and engagements.
• Drive adoption of governance models, delivery controls, documentation standards, and process improvements that elevate execution maturity across ASR.
• Identify opportunities to streamline and automate delivery processes, improving efficiency, consistency, and scalability across the ASR operating model.
• Foster a culture of clarity, accountability, and continuous improvement while coaching and developing program delivery personnel.

Qualifications

Deep experience (typically 7–10+ years) in technical program delivery, cybersecurity program management, or large‑scale technology execution leadership.

Proven success leading cross‑functional teams and driving complex, multi‑workstream portfolios.

Strong command of delivery governance, portfolio management, risk/dependency management, and KPIs/OKR frameworks.

Exceptional executive communication, synthesis, and storytelling capabilities.

Ability to operate with discretion, sound judgment, and a high degree of autonomy.

Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, not just authority, in matrixed or federated organizations.

Experience in cybersecurity domains—security readiness, vulnerability management, threat modeling, appsec, or similar—is beneficial but not required.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

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.