Alpha Engine - Management Coordinator

Bridgewater Associates • New York, NY

23h • $100,000 - $125,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Management Coordinator role has a wide breadth of responsibilities, spanning across multiple areas to ensure smooth and efficient day-to-day process management. In this role, you will support a subset of BW’s Senior Investor and Operations Management and their teams, getting exposure to many different areas of work while learning the business and getting things done. This role requires someone who is passionate about managing processes in a reliable manner, while also ensuring services provided are achieving the goal of the senior leader’s world running smoothly at every level. Successful candidates will thrive in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment where one needs to juggle multiple responsibilities while being an excellent facilitator, communicator, and proactive partner.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in administrative support, business operations, project management, or similar type of role
• Ability to interact with internal and external stakeholders through excellent written and verbal communication
• Ability to operate excellently in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment
• Ability to prioritize and work cross functionally when managing several concurrent threads.
• Ability to work with and manage various stakeholders in service of a common goal.
• Experience running and improving operational processes
• Ability to work flexible hours (e.g. some evenings) as required to match the needs of the team(s) you support
• In addition, to succeed within our unique culture and work environment, individuals must demonstrate humility, innate curiosity, and openness to new ideas and approaches. Candidates must be driven, confident, and goal-oriented. All Bridgewater employees are expected to be honest, exceptionally direct, and eager to provide and receive objective feedback. Our employees constantly strive for self-improvement through feedback and self-reflection and are committed to the pursuit of excellence.

Nice To Haves

• Have a passion and knack for organization, planning, prioritization, and can solve problems effectively
• Derive satisfaction from making others’ worlds run smoothly
• Have high empathy; you can read the room and understand people well
• Enjoy working as part of a team to support senior executives
• Possess a “can-do” attitude and have the desire and willingness to roll up your sleeves and jump into whatever is needed
• Are highly determined, consistently willing to push through to get things done.
• Have a track record of ability to manage and execute on many concurrent threads across different initiatives
• Can communicate and respond in a timely manner
• Have the intuition on when to efficiently raise and escalate problems or roadblocks
• Are able to consistently step back and improve your way of operating
• Humble and open-minded, eager to learn and take on more as the responsibilities over time

Responsibilities

• Work with BW Senior Investor and Operations Management and their teams to ensure long term goals translate to the day-to-day and are executed effectively
• Own all operational support functions to enable the team’s business goals – such as onboarding / offboarding talent, team specific operational policies, talent assessment processes, etc.
• Manage challenging and fast-moving calendars, partnering with support teams across the department and company
• Track and coordinate priorities to ensure deliverables are completed in a timely manner
• Run and improve smaller scale operational processes within the team

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed