Data Sourcing & Strategy Specialist

Bridgewater Associates LP; Westport (CT); On-site; USD 170,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Bridgewater Associates, LP, located in Westport, CT, seeks an experienced professional to join the Research, Data Strategy and Acquisition function. You will operate at the front edge of our Investment Data practice, engaging with investors, associates, engineers, and vendors to refine offerings and align with our needs.

You will drive sourcing, relationship management, and data-source initiatives, including ML/AI enhancements and vendor management, across the firm.

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: Relationship Management, Supplier Knowledge Management, or Internal Stakeholder Management.
• Experience with Capital Markets data is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Executing across the systems, sourcing, supply chains, and internal demand we use to acquire, provide and maintain the inbound fuel for Investment requests.
• Dynamically understanding the world of offerings, creating potential market matches and indications of interest.
• Owning the Investment Asks that land unspecified or over-specified, where the investor cannot say what they need.
• Understanding and communicating the state of components of the sourcing portfolio and knowledge bases.
• Building, maintaining, and sorting inbound possibilities, candidate sources and data sources.
• Improving the ML/AI layer in external discovery and matching processes.
• Creating and documenting initiatives to raise quality, reliability, and efficiency of the practice’s systems.
• Continuously evaluating processes for sourcing, vetting, and delivering content at scale.
• Advocating with vendors to improve the quality of pitches.

Skills

Relationship Management

Supplier Knowledge Management

Internal Stakeholder Management

Capital Markets data

Education

4-year degree from an accredited undergraduate institution

Job description

Bridgewater Associates, LP, located in Westport, CT, seeks an experienced professional to join the Research, Data Strategy and Acquisition function. You will operate at the front edge of our Investment Data practice, engaging with investors, associates, engineers, and vendors to refine offerings and align with our needs.

You will drive sourcing, relationship management, and data-source initiatives, including ML/AI enhancements and vendor management, across the firm.