Data Science Chapter Lead

**About us**:
Endeavour Group runs Australia’s leading retail drinks and licenced hotel network. We are an ASX50 business with more than 1,600 retail stores and 340 hotels powered by a team of 28,000 people. Our brands include BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Jimmy Brings, Langtons, Shorty’s Liquor, Pinnacle Drinks and ALH hotels

Our purpose is to create a more sociable future, together. We’re all about bringing people together to create great experiences and memorable moments. We do the right thing - build our business sustainably, act responsibly and embrace technology. We work as one team to contribute to the communities we serve and collaborate with our partners to help build a better industry. We recognise how important our people are in helping us to achieve our ambition and we champion individuality and value fairness, inclusion and diversity.

The Advanced Analytics Team is an Enterprise function within Endeavour, with capabilities across data governance & privacy, data engineering & platforms, data analytics and data science. We are a passionate team of data enthusiasts with a mission to empower Endeavour to achieve its ambitions through data driven insights.

**About The Opportunity**

Endeavour operates an Agile, matrixed environment, with Practices/Chapters providing people management and capabilities, whilst Product led squads deliver business missions. Chapter members are embedded in the cross-functional Product delivery squads, bringing their specific skill to that squad to deliver on the Product initiatives.

As Chapter Lead, your primary function is recruitment, line management, delivery squad allocation of your team members and capability uplift of the Data Science capability in Advanced Analytics. You are a capability expert and act as a leader for your chapter members. You will coach, mentor, support and upskill the chapter members to ensure that we have the capability necessary to deliver value through the delivery squads. You will drive the creation and maintenance of standards to ensure quality delivery of the capability across the organisation. You will work closely with Product Managers to recruit and allocate chapter members into delivery squads.

This is a hands-on role whose primary responsibility is people and capability management, however depending on the size of the chapter and needs of the business, this role may also split their time between chapter responsibilities and delivery, providing the data science capability within a cross-functional agile squad.

**About You**
You’re customer focused and passionate about being part of a tribe of great people and you actively contribute to your workplace community.

With a growth mindset, you orient around doing what’s meaningful, purposeful and delivers value. You’re excited about being part of a data-led transformation at one of Australia’s biggest companies.

You’re curious and empathetic. You have an eye for the bigger picture while also ensuring the details are in order. You deal with complexity by collaborating with colleagues, listening to customers, testing ideas and continuously learning. You take authorship for what you create.

**A day in the life of a Data Science Chapter Lead**
- Recruitment, line management, delivery squad allocation and capability uplift of the Data Science capability at Endeavour, providing skills to deliver high quality data science which drives business outcomes
- Chapter member line management (including performance reviews), career pathway support and mentoring
- Actively coach, mentor, support & upskill Chapter Members to improve performance, reinforce continuous improvement and guide career progression
- Ensure that chapter members are delivering value in their assigned squads/teams
- Define the chapter capability and take ownership for establishing training, coaching etc to enable chapter members to upskill in the capability
- Creation and governance of standards and appropriate tools to drive consistency and quality in the capability across Endeavour (in line with data governance standards standards)
- Remove impediments from the chapter function
- Recruit, onboard and offboard chapter members to/from Endeavour Group
- Stay abreast of work allocated to squads to understand improvement possibilities and/or sharing between chapter members, and challenges facing chapter members
- Set objectives for the Chapter and track/report using defined standards
- Reinforce Endeavour’s Agile & Scrum values and principles
- Responsible for ensuring Chapter norms and standards are understood and followed by their members
- Enable close cooperation across all Practices & Chapters in Endeavour
- Participate when required Inception workshops, to enable decomposition and planning
- Coach Chapter Members in the capability discipline to be empowered and self-organised
- Assists Tribes & Squads when they require recruitment and/or growing of Chapter aligned capabilities
- Facilitate discussion to resolve con