Apprentice Leader Job in Mu Sigma

How will your typical day look like?

• Meet with the team of apprentice leaders in your team to identify and mitigate potential gaps in a client engagement. Take actions to ensure healthy growth of the engagement with focus on high quality delivery, client relationships and employee engagement
• Collaborate with the client services team to assess and take decisions regarding the health of the engagement
• Work with other ALs to prioritize high priority problems that need immediate attention. Typically, these business problems cannot be solved using a linear/single line of thought. Use first principle thinking, coupled with basics of math and technology to arrive at a robust solution design, while collaborating with the other ALs in the team
• Provide guidance and support for projects ranging from: core data engineering, design architecture, cloud capabilities to mathematical model building, evaluation and operational support
• We have an open work culture and encourage sharing of ideas; hence you would see yourself talking to team members across your team to understand their problems and concerns. You would be dealing with problems from team members, direct reports and superiors from various backgrounds and experiences
• Collaborate with the various business functions in Mu Sigma, like Sales, Marketing, Mu Sigma University, Talent Management and Delivery & Innovation, helping them from your experiences in delivery, and learning their way of operating, in return
• You ll also make time to attend meetings with the India Leadership and client services leadership, discussing the progress of your engagement, highlighting the highs and lows of your engagement and asking for help across the organization
• The workday stretches into late evenings and you d find yourself talking to the client, presenting insights from work and engaging the clients in discussions around growth and future pipeline development. You would have to work on defining this pipeline and ensuring growth is driven by great delivery and satisfactory client engagement
• In short, a day would involve delivery be it brainstorming on a project, Quality Checking codes on Python/R/SAS or whatever technology it takes, preparing a deck for delivering insights and growth, collaborating with the India Leadership to come up with new ideas and solution design, driving client conversations centered around growth and guiding team members across the lifecycle of the engagement

What do we expect from you?

• Ability to make sense of ambiguity: To lead your team out of murky waters and keep the spirits high in the process. This will be a team with a wide mix of capabilities and experiences
• An open mind and a knack for interacting and motivating people from diverse backgrounds
• Ability to handle scale and influence other people and processes, to mold the environment in a way that helps achieve the team s goals
• Ability to apply first principles and structured approaches to problem solving as opposed to relying excessively on past domain expertise alone
• Belief in the fail fast and learn way of doing things rather than sitting out of the process. We need people who know when to Ask for Help and learn on the job
• A strong appreciation for Math, Business and Technology and an appetite to get your hands dirty with any/all of them as required
• Willingness to do an honest and continuous evaluation and development of your leadership skills

What do we offer you in return?