Hybrid Management Coordinator, Total Portfolio Strategies bei Bridgewater Associates

About Bridgewater

Bridgewater Associates is a premier asset management firm, focused on delivering unique insight and partnership for the most sophisticated global institutional investors.

Our investment process is driven by a tireless pursuit to understand how the world’s markets and economies work — using cutting edge technology to validate and execute on timeless and universal investment principles.

Founded in 1975, we are a community of independent thinkers who share a commitment for excellence. By fostering a culture of openness, transparency, and inclusion, we strive to unlock the most complex questions in investment strategy, management, and corporate culture.

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Our Culture

Our culture is tied to our mission, which is to understand how the world’s markets and economies work, and to translate that into world-class investment performance. This requires an extraordinary team, defined by the best individuals and the best portfolio of people, operating in an idea meritocracy. In this, we are uncompromising on our shared values of excellence, truth, integrity, humility, and courage. Our aspiration of a vibrant idea meritocracy requires diversity of thought – this comes from diversity of background, identity, experience, and so much more. We pursue inclusion because it’s how we unlock the power of that diversity and make sure the best ideas get heard. To sustain this way of being through lots of years and lots of circumstances, we invest in meaningful work and meaningful relationships – the purpose and joy that comes from tackling something challenging and worthy, alongside people who make us better versions of ourselves.

About the Total Portfolio Strategies Department and Your Role

In Total Portfolio Strategies, our goal is to shape our industry by building on Bridgewater’s deep understanding of the world to partner with clients on their holistic portfolio challenges, seeking to deliver innovative investment strategies that help achieve our clients’ most important goals.  

The Management Coordinator will be a key member of our growing organization in TPS, partnering with a TPS Pillar Head as they manage and oversee their business line. In this role, you will own all administrative and logistical support functions to enable both internal and external-facing commitments, which includes time management/calendaring for Pillar Heads and other external-facing team members. In addition, you will be responsible for partnering with the Pillar Head and leadership team within the pillar to help set up and oversee management processes to better track key priorities to ensure the team is delivering against their goals.

This role will be the connective tissue and drumbeat towards all operational elements of the team. The Coordinator will frequently work in a cross-functional manner, driving cohesion and collaboration between teams including but not limited to senior leaders and stakeholders, investment and client services counterparts, and cross functional partners.  Finally, depending on experience and desire for growth, there are opportunities to elevate beyond these responsibilities as the team evolves and matures.

This role requires a highly organized person who can juggle multiple priorities smoothly with an emphasis on discretion and judgment. Successful candidates will demonstrate their ability to thrive in dynamic, excellence-driven environments where the landscape is consistently changing and evolving through time.

You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Directly support a Pillar Head and their leadership team on all administrative needs
• Provide detailed calendar management and coordination for meetings and events (e.g., arranging travel, partnering with internal teams, submitting expenses)
• Ensure the pillar heads and team are prepared for all internal and external interactions/engagements (e.g., presentations, prep notes, technology)
• Drive execution, provide direction, and project manage initiatives as delegated by the Pillar Head, including cross-team management processes
• Anticipate and resolve problems efficiently and independently
• Partner with other teams both within TPS and across the organization

You will be a click for the role if you:

• Are a team player who can learn quickly and who can proactively seek to improve efficiency and quality
• Have a mentality where there is no task too big or small
• Are a ‘big picture’ thinker who is able to focus on the goal at hand, not only tasks
• Thrive in a dynamic environment
• Distill information, prioritize well and summarize key points for those you support
• Enjoy solving problems using logic and common sense to develop practical solutions
• Have the ability to orchestrate and prioritize long and short-term activities at once while maintaining high quality work
• Are willing and able to anticipate the needs and concerns of others
• Demonstrate innate curiosity and a tendency to thrive on learning new things

Minimum Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in an administrative or coordination capacity
• Highly organized, can manage multiple projects/deliverables with close attention to detail
• Effective written and oral communication skills
• Flexible, able to anticipate and adapt to changes or rapidly evolving situations and administrative needs
• Capability with Microsoft operating systems and/or tools (MS Office 365, Excel, Word, Outlook)
• Experience in financial services or start up environment is a plus, though not required

Physical Requirements 

This role will follow a hybrid schedule, with an onsite requirement of 4 days. Required on-site locations and schedules vary by team, but will either be based in Westport, NYC or involve some degree of alternating between campuses.

Compensation 

The wage range for this role is $125,000 - $200,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 80% - 90% of this wage range. 

Why Choose Bridgewater?

It takes all types to make Bridgewater great. We seek a diverse group of innovative thinkers and push them to engage in rigorous and thoughtful inquiry. We develop people through an honest examination of their abilities and performance, enabling personal growth and professional development. We strive to provide you opportunities that will challenge you and unlock your potential.

One of our core priorities at Bridgewater is to enable our employees to build a great life and career, and we believe our benefits are an important extension of that philosophy. As such, currently Bridgewater offers a competitive suite of benefits.

Explore more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website here.

Bridgewater reserves the right to change its current benefits program at any time, in a manner that is consistent with applicable federal and state regulations.

This job description is not a contract and confers no contractual rights, privileges, or benefits on any applicant or potential applicant. Bridgewater has the right to change any and all terms of this job description, including, but not limited to, job responsibilities, qualifications and benefits. Nothing in this job description constitutes an offer or guarantee of employment. Please note that we do not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer