Lead Data Scientist, Applied AI, SEAA

Why This Mission: CHANEL SEAA is accelerating its data roadmap to expand from business intelligence towards decision intelligence: moving beyond reporting what happened to diagnosing issues, anticipating change and enabling confident, timely action for the brand, clients and business. The Lead Data Scientist, Applied AI is SEAA’s senior technical authority for data science, machine learning and applied AI.

turns complex business opportunities into analytically rigorous, scalable and responsible intelligence products that strengthen client understanding, business performance, foresight, judgement and action. This is a player-coach role for someone who combines deep technical credibility with commercial judgement, remains hands-on in priority work, and can influence how leaders understand and act on evidence. Working across Southeast Asia and Australia, the role partners with business leaders, Insight & Foresight, Data Platform and Engineering, Data Products and Stewardship, Data & AI Enablement, Technology, Global teams and specialist partners.

adapts its approach to different market contexts and levels of data maturity, while developing solutions that can scale across the region. Impact You Can Create In The Role: Lead the Data Science and Applied AI Practice Set technical direction, standards and leading practices across data science, machine learning, GenAI and agentic AI Remain hands-on in priority work through problem framing, exploratory analysis, metho