Management Coordinator, Asia Strategies

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About the Asia Strategies Department

This role sits in our Asia Strategies department, whose goal is to continue our growth down the journey of being the premier investment management firm in Asia. This entails developing great investment strategies reflecting our expertise, generating alpha in the markets, researching and publishing our understanding of the macroeconomic environment, and designing solutions to help our clients invest across the region.

About Your Role

The Management Coordinator role has a wide breadth of responsibilities, spanning across multiple areas to ensure the team's strategic goals are translated in to smooth and efficient day-to-day process management. In this role, you will support BW’s Senior Investors or Operations Leaders and their teams, getting exposure to many different areas of work while learning the business and getting things done. Your responsibilities will include managing the day-to-day administrative and executive support needs for the individual and broader Asia Strategies team, and will scale into taking on broader operational and management process responsibilities.

This role requires someone who is passionate about managing processes in a reliable manner, while also ensuring the senior leader’s world runs 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.

You will drive the following responsibilities

• Leadership & Team Priority Management
• Work with BW Senior Investors or Operations Leaders and their teams to ensure long term goals and priorities translate to the day-to-day and are executed effectively
• Calendar & Travel
• Manage fast-moving calendars and shifting meetings across time zones, partnering with support teams across the department and company
• Provide coordination support and planning for international travel, including booking flights, managing conference agendas, and coordinating meeting and events overseas
• Management Machines & Operations
• Owns management machine hygiene across the team, including running COO team meetings, owning and running existing processes and standing up new ones where there are gaps
• Own all operational support functions to enable the team’s business goals – such as onboarding / offboarding talent, team specific operational policies, team agenda management, business trip support and coordination, team event planning, talent assessment processes, etc.
• Space & Workplace
• Coordinate office space and seating arrangements for executives and teams. Partner with relevant workplace/facilities teams to address space needs
• Own the team community vision, plan events, maintain budget

You will be a click for the role if you:

• Have a passion and knack for organization, planning, prioritization, and can solve problems effectively
• Derive satisfaction from making

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y clearly, we can identify the gap between where we are and where we want to be—and use that knowledge to learn and get better. Our system that supports this way of being is an idea meritocracy, where we commit to finding and rewarding the best ideas regardless of hierarchy.

Operating in these ways is hard. Finding truth and learning through it is inherently a high-friction cycle. It’s possible because we share a few core values: a commitment to honesty, high ownership, deeply meaningful work and relationships, and building Bridgewater as a big tent where vast differences are welcomed. These values create the common denominator that binds us together in good times and bad.

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, including health insurance, retirement benefits, paid leave, and other fringe benefits. Find more information about Bridgewater’s benefits on our website .

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.

Sponsorship

Please note that we do not pro vide immigration sponsorship for this position.

Compensation

The wage range for this role is $120,000-$165,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role i s between 80% - 90% of this wage range .

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.

Bridgewater Associates, LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer