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 others’ worlds run smoothly
Are a ‘big picture’ thinker who is able to focus on the goal at hand, not only tasks
Thrive in a dynamic environment and have a track record of ability to manage and execute on many concurrent threads across different initiatives
Distill information, prioritize well and summarize key points and action items for those you support
Have high empathy; you can read the room and understand people well
Enjoy working as part of a team to support senior executives
Possess a “can-do” attitude and have the desire and willingness to roll up your sleeves and jump into whatever is needed
Are highly determined, consistently willing to push through to get things done.
Can communicate and respond in a timely manner
Have the intuition on when to efficiently raise and escalate problems or roadblocks
Are able to consistently step back and improve your way of operating
Humble and open-minded, eager to learn and take on more as the responsibilities over time

The anticipated onsite requirement for this role is four days per week at our New York City campus.

Minimum Qualifications