Client Service Research Associate - Commercial Analytics

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

Bridgewater’s unique success is the direct result of our unique way of being. We want an idea meritocracy in which meaningful work and meaningful relationships are pursued through radical truth and radical transparency. We require people to be extremely open, air disagreements, test each other’s logic, and view discovering mistakes and weaknesses as a good thing that leads to improvement and innovation. It is by continually striving together for the highest levels of truth and excellence that we create meaningful work and meaningful relationships. Within this culture, Diversity and Inclusion is a top priority because it is essential to finding the best talent in the world, enabling our idea meritocracy, and creating an environment where all types of people can thrive. We have a full-time team as well as affinity networks that work on these issues - If you would like to learn more, please let your Bridgewater recruiter know.

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About the Commercial Analytics Team

Commercial Analytics group is a key partner to the senior leadership team across the firm, enabling better commercial decision making by systematically assessing progress against our goals and by providing data-backed insights. A core mission of this group is to do business analytics in a truly systemized fashion, through a robust infrastructure and user-friendly tools. As a result, Commercial Analytics group is deeply connected with rest of the Client Service Systemization Teams and Technology department to create and shape a sustainable ecosystem.

Commercial Analytics team is a trusted partner in both setting and running Bridgewater’s commercial strategy.

About Your Role

CSRAs in Commercial Analytics team will play a vital role in servicing internal stakeholders across BW to improve and solve various business strategy problems. From their unique position at the heart of Bridgewater’s commercial strategy and sales & marketing activities, these individuals have an aerial view into our commercial footprint, ever-evolving perspectives on world markets, high-impact company-wide projects and how we’re positioned as an organization to achieve our goals. CSRAs in Commercial Analytics team work closely with Client Service and Investment Engine Leadership, and the Commercial Committee, to collaborate on how to handle different commercial research projects – all the way from key questions/initial framework, to analysis, to systemization and hardening and ultimately delivery for insights and recommendations.  

Successful CSRA, Commercial Analytics will

• Develop a holistic understanding of Bridgwater’s’ business objectives and problems.
• Develop a holistic understanding of Bridgwater’s’ investment products and how they tie to strategic goals.
• Understand various Client Service and Marketing systems in place.
• Partner with leadership across Client Service and Investment Engine to understand business priorities and their biggest challenges.
• Develop and author logic and visualizations to enable better commercial decision-making through providing data-backed insights.
• Ensure the commercial analytics systems are utilized in the best possible way across the department.
• Partner with leadership across CS to report key performance metrics in a systematic basis.
• Partner with technologists to shape our commercial analytics infrastructure.

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You will drive the following responsibilities:

• Understand Bridgewater's book of business, related commercial strategy, and our investment thinking.
• Contribute to Bridgewater’s world-class commercial service strategy through creative thinking a