Project Manager, Partnership Office

About the Role

Bridgewater’s Partnership is the group of the firm’s most senior leaders and largest owners, who are collectively responsible for stewarding the firm’s culture and principles, its governance, and its long-term success. Partners work alongside executive leadership and the Board of Directors to hold the firm to its highest standard. The Partner Office helps facilitate the firm-building and governance activities of Bridgewater’s Partners by organizing and managing the key day-to-day activities of the Partnership’s committees and the strategic projects to build the Partnership and its impact. The Partner Office Project Manager will be responsible for overseeing a broad range of tasks and projects in support of this mission. You will work closely with Bridgewater’s 47 Partners to help drive the success of the Partnership and ensure productive coordination with the firm’s executive leadership and operating Board of Directors.

In this role, you will partner with the Partnership Chair and Deputy Chair to shape the Partnership from where it stands today to its future potential. You will be responsible for designing and managing both operational and strategic projects, supporting key initiatives such as communications, priority setting, and project proposals. Additionally, you will interact with multiple executive stakeholders and cross-functional teams across the company.

Successful candidates will be independent self-starters who are interested in getting exposure to company-level priorities and business strategies. They will demonstrate strong organizational skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and be able to provide structure to complex projects, and have a desire to grow their strategic capabilities. This is a fast-paced, results-oriented environment that requires the ability to balance multiple responsibilities and demanding deadlines.

You will be a fit for the role if you:

Are organized, reliable, and can prioritize effectively
Have a track record of managing and executing on many concurrent threads across different initiatives
Are passionate about running and improving processes and keeping the trains on time and on track
Can communicate clearly and respond in a timely manner, and collaborate with a variety of different stakeholders, including senior executives
Can independently advance important initiatives with limited oversight and direction
Have strong attention to detail
Are willing to speak up and share your point of view, constructively challenge others, including senior leaders
You give feedback directly and take it well
You will drive the following responsibilities:

Run Partnership management and projects, including:

Collaborating with the Partnership Chair and Deputy Chair on setting and maintaining the Partnership priorities
Managing the Partnership committees and working directly with committee chairs in setting the committee meeting agendas and priorities
Partnering with the Partnership Leadership Committee on strategic initiatives
Collaborate with senior stakeholders across Bridgewater (i.e., Office of the CEO, Board Office, Executive Committee) to stay up-to-date and coordinated on key threads
Owning the tracking and accountability of Partner engagement and impact

Support key operational responsibilities within the Partnership, including:

Point of contact for Partnership requests
Partnering closely with the Partnership Office coordinator on executing logistics
Managing engagement with Partner teams and Partnership Office coordinator
Collaborating with Finance on Partnership Office budget

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree with an excellent academic record
2 – 4 years of strategy consulting, project management or equivalent experience 
Exceptional communication abilities: able to crisply, and effectively, communicate (both verbally and in writing) with all levels of employees including senior leadership
Proven track record demonstrating strong process management skills with experience driving measurable change in an organization
Experience keeping complex, multi-phased projects on track; strong organizational skills and a commitment to reliably meeting deadlines
Ability to autonomously operate in a dynamic environment; be flexible when priorities shift and/or agile enough to pivot a project based on additional data/new inputs
A desire to learn and develop independent conclusions; must also be willing to challenge the status quo
Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to collaboratively partner across departments
Integrity, precision, and care in handling sensitive, complex information 
Structured and rigorous approach to solving complex problems