Assistant or Associate Professor in Marketing

At the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Aalborg University Business School, a position as an Assistant or Associate Professor in marketing are open for appointment from 1. August 2024 or soon thereafter. The Assistant Professor position is for a maximum of 4 years. The Associate Professor position is permanent. 

Job description 

Aalborg University Business School is situated at Aalborg University, a university with world-class research in many disciplines. Aalborg University is a founding institution in Problem-Based Learning. With this as a guiding principle, the Business School plays a major role in bridging the gap between business and science that helps commercialise inventions and generate business growth. The prerequisite for this is relevant research of the highest quality. We have a strategy of publishing our research in leading journals in our fields. We consider current trends and issues in all the knowledge we produce. Only then can we contribute with business-critical insights that make a difference in society. 

The research efforts of the Marketing and Market Process Research Group at Aalborg University Business School revolve around two major developments: changing behavior related to private and business consumers’ consumption and opportunities and challenges from the ongoing digitization of firms’ activities. The research group combines experience in qualitative and quantitative research and covers diverse fields of research in both B2B and B2C contexts. 

Applicants should be able to demonstrate knowledge and experience of the marketing field in general and in relation to one or several of the following areas: business-to-business marketing, consumer research, relationship marketing(customer, supplier, and interorganizational), retailing and retail platforms, sales management, or service marketing. 

Applicants are to indicate in their application whether they are applying for the Assistant Professor or Associate Professor position. 

Assistant Professor

A position as Assistant Professor is a fixed-term training position which includes an obligation to carry our research and teaching activities. To a limited extent, additional tasks may be defined by the University. The appointment includes a requirement to attend a course in university pedagogy for Assistant Professors organised by the University. 

The employment as Assistant Professor must not exceed a total period of four years at the same institution. 

The formal qualification requirement for at position as Assistant Professor is a PhD degree or academic qualifications at PhD level. 

Associate Professor

A position as Associate Professor is a permanent appointment which included an obligation to carry our research and teaching activities. To some extent, additional tasks may be defined by the University. 

The formal qualification requirement for the position as Associate Professor is research qualifications corresponding to the level achieved from a successful employment period as an Assistant Professor/Researcher, or achieved otherwise. The applicant must document scientific production at an international level. Furthermore, it is presupposed that the applicants have received supervision and pedagogical upgrading and a positive written evaluation of teaching qualifications. 

Moreover it will be an advantage, but not a prerequisite, that applicants for the position as Associate Professor have experienace with Problem Based Learning(PBL) which is Aalborg University's teaching philosophy.  

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