About Your Role In this role, you will be an integral part of the Research, Data Strategy and Acquisition function at Bridgewater. Operating at the front edge of our Investment Data practice, you will be part of the execution and evolution of our Relationship Management, Supplier Knowledge Management, and Internal Stakeholder Management disciplines. You will engage with investors, associates, engineers, and external vendors and sources to improve our understanding of external offerings and vendors' understanding of our needs, quality management, and business alignment.
You will be immersed in our workflows, investment questions, supplier challenges, market making and matching, internal marketing/advocacy, and vendor engagement strategy. You will regularly communicate your understanding and assessments to a diverse group of stakeholders, including investment professionals, vendors and service providers, Management, Compliance, Legal, and Finance. You will partner across the firm and with vendors (existing and prospective), collaborating with hundreds of individuals over the course of a year.
You will drive the following responsibilities:
- Executing across the systems, sourcing, supply chains, and internal demand we use to acquire, provide and maintain the inbound fuel for the Investment requests that arrive unspecified or overly prescribed, helping the investor clarify what they need.
- Dynamically understanding the world of offerings, known and unknown to Bridgewater, creating potential market matches, indications of interest, discerning and selecting structure from the external world.
- Owning the Investment Asks that land unspecified or over-specified, where the investor or colleague cannot say what they need.
- Understanding and effectively communicating the state of specific components of the sourcing portfolio, and our knowledge bases of passes, no bids, and deferred opportunities.
- Building, maintaining, and rapidly sorting inbound possibilities, candidate sources and existing data sources and services in the sourcing portfolio.
- Improving and executing on the ML/AI layer we are rapidly introducing into our external discovery and matching process, designed from first principles.
- Creating and documenting initiatives to raise the quality, reliability, and efficiency of the practice's systems.
- Continuously evaluating and enhancing processes for sourcing, vetting, and delivering content processes at scale.
- Advocating with existing and potential vendors to improve the quality of their pitches.
You will be a fit for the role if you:
- Are curious, practical, analytical, capable, and willing to fail and learn from failing, in broad engagement with a diverse international set of people and processes both inside and outside of Bridgewater.
- Are able to manage a high volume of work across diverse functions and competing priorities, while effectively communicating, executing and marking to market.
- Think in terms of systems and naturally look for ways to solve problems through the evolution of those systems.
- Hold a high degree of personal responsibility and ownership in everything you do.
- Are willing to operate across all levels of work, starting from basic task execution and evolving into complex, multi-month and multi-modal efforts.
In this role, you will grow with us by:
- Undergoing an on-the-job training program that includes structured engagement with the external world, live apprenticeship, and working with highly experienced colleagues.
- Actively engaging and grappling with the growth and evolution of the practice.
- Having your voice and perspective heard, and over time representing the firm in important vendor, counterparty, and provider management discussions.
Minimum Qualifications - 4-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution
- 3-7 years of relevant work experience at an investment bank, vendor/service provider or asset management firm
- Experience in at least two of the following: Relationship Management, Supplier Knowledge Management (understanding what suppliers and sources can offer, beyond their past performance), or Internal Stakeholder Management
- Experience with Capital Markets market or research data is a strong plus
Physical Requirements The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is three days per week at our Westport, CT campus and one day per week at our NYC campus.
Compensation Band The wage range for this role is $170,000-$225,000 inclusive of base salary and discretionary target bonus. The expected base salary for this role is between 70%-80% of this wage range.
