Principal Data Scientist

Job Description

Principal Data Scientist

• Love what you do and leave your mark
• Hybrid ways of working - Sydney or Melbourne location
• Strategic & Technical Leadership: Set the Data Science and AI technical direction across agile squads within the Retail Merchandising Product pillar.
• Cutting-Edge AI at Retail Scale: Design, build and scale forecasting, optimisation, causal inference, and agentic AI solutions that directly shape pricing, promotion, range, and space decisions.

As a Principal Data Scientist in our Data & AI (D&AI) team, you will provide strategic and technical leadership for Data Science and AI in retail Merchandising. Working across agile squads, you will set technical direction, tackle complex problems and guide the delivery of high-impact initiatives in a collaborative environment that encourages continuous learning and innovation. 

Partnering closely with business stakeholders and technical teams, you will combine deep scientific expertise, commercial judgement and hands-on technical leadership to develop scalable, production-ready data science and AI solutions. You will evaluate and apply established and emerging approaches to strengthen our capabilities, improve how our Merchandising teams operate and make decisions, and deliver measurable business value.

Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

• Strategic and Technical Leadership: Set the technical direction for Data Science and AI in the Retail Merchandising Product pillar, partnering with Product, Engineering and business leaders to shape the technical roadmap. Apply systems thinking to manage cross-squad reusable assets, guide architecture, modelling and evaluation decisions.
• Merchandising AI Solutions: Design, build and scale forecasting, clustering, optimisation and agentic AI solutions for promotion, pricing, range and space optimisation. Translate model outputs into actionable recommendations and operational workflows that improve category management decisions and commercial outcomes.
• Opportunity Identification and Innovation: Proactively identify and shape high-impact Data Science and AI opportunities, anticipate delivery risks, and validate new approaches against business value, feasibility and scalability.
• Scientific Rigour and Model Lifecycle: Design experiments and apply causal inference methods where appropriate to test hypotheses and validate incremental business impact. Provide technical oversight across the model lifecycle, from problem framing and development to deployment, monitoring and continuous improvement, setting best practice and standards .
• Cross-Functional Delivery: Partner closely with various technical teams to frame business problems, resolve technical trade-offs and deliver scalable, production-ready AI products. Remain hands-on with the most complex technical challenges and establish approaches that the wider team can utilise.
• Stakeholder Communication and Influence: Communicate complex analytical findings, trade-offs, and model insights clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences so data-driven decisions are trusted and adopted.
   

Qualifications

Now let’s talk about you: 

• Principal Level Experience: Proven track of leading complex data science and AI initiatives from concept to production, setting technical direction across teams and delivering measurable commercial outcomes, ideally within retail, supply chain or merchandising.
• End-to-End Data Science Knowledge: Deep expertise across the full ML lifecycle, from problem framing and causal experimentation to production deployment and monitoring, with strong proficiency in Python, SQL, and core modelling approaches such as time-series forecasting, optimisation, and predictive modelling.
• Agentic AI Experience: Hands-on experience designing, evaluating and deploying agentic AI systems and multi-agent workflows, using frameworks such as LangGraph, Google ADK or similar orchestration tools. 
• AI-Native Development: Practical experience using AI development tools, such as Cursor, Claude Code or GitHub Copilot, to accelerate prototyping and delivery while maintaining code quality, testing, security and engineering standards.
• Production Cloud & MLOps Fluency: Hands-on experience building and scaling ML solutions in enterprise cloud environments (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• Stakeholder Influence & Hybrid Collaboration: Proven ability to align diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders, translate technical context into clear commercial implications, and influence decisions without relying on formal authority.
• Continuous Learning & Adaptability: A pragmatic growth mindset skilled in navigating ambiguity, assessing novel AI approaches, and championing technical excellence across engineering and science teams.

The benefits are good too! 

• We offer hybrid ways of working
• An exclusive discount card for our ALH Hotels pubs & accommodation, BWS, Dan Murphy’s and other Endeavour Group brands. Through our partnership with Woolworths, you'll also enjoy discounts at Woolies supermarkets and BIG W 
• As a valued member of the team, your health and wellbeing is our top priority. You will have access to a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big
• Find out more about our range of benefits and discounts here

At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.

Additional Information

We are together creators

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We’re serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.  

We’re all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you’re close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.

You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or at endeavourgroupcareers.com.au.

Our Talent Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Endeavour Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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