Lecturer in Business Analytics (Teaching)

About the role 

Are you on the business analytics/ data science / machine learning academic job market this year? 

The School of Management at the University of Bath is inviting applications for a Lecturer / Assistant Professor (Teaching) to work within the Information, Decisions and Operations (IDO) Division. This is a teaching-track role so, we are particularly interested in applicants with a strong interest in learning and education as well as in pedagogical innovation. The successful candidates will bring contemporary practical and theoretical knowledge, alongside proven teaching ability, and will be expected to engage and enthuse students.

The IDO Division consists of around 35 faculty with diverse research and teaching portfolios, ranging from empirical operations and supply chain management, operations research and management science, and information systems. For a look at the kind of work we do, see the work of IDO faculty members, and the webpages of the Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement (CHI²), Centre for Smart Warehousing and Logistics Systems and Institute for Digital Security and Behaviour (IDSB). 

Bath School of Management is one of the highest-ranking management schools in Europe in terms of both its research and education. The IDO Division has excellent industry and academic networks which support a thriving and highly collegiate environment. The University of Bath and the School of Management currently hold a Silver Athena Swan award as well as the Race Equality Charter bronze award. For our teaching, the University of Bath was awarded a triple Gold award at the most recent Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) in 2023.

Committed to the development of its staff, the University of Bath has a route for academics on teaching contracts to be promoted to Senior Lecturers/Associate Professors and to full Professors based on criteria around education and student experience, citizenship and research and innovation.  Research-active teaching staff can also access research support which includes funding for conference attendance, data collection and research visits etc, a dedicated grant support team etc.

About you

You will contribute to our range of highly rated undergraduate and postgraduate offerings. The Division’s teaching portfolio includes specialist MSc courses in Business Analytics; Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management; Innovation and Technology Management; and Engineering and Business Management, as well as more general management undergraduate and MBA programmes. 

The successful candidate will bring contemporary practical and theoretical knowledge, alongside proven teaching ability, and will be expected to engage and enthuse students.  Being able and willing to teach technical/analytical subjects to management students is a priority for this role. Candidates with a working knowledge of the R or Python programming language and statistical software environment, are particularly welcome to apply.

Further Information

This role is offered on a full-time (36.5 hours per week), permanent basis.

Interview dates for this position are 14 May 2026 and 15 May 2026.

Informal enquiries may be made to the Head of the IDO Division, Professor Vaggelis Giannikas email v.giannikas@bath.ac.uk, or Subject Group Lead Dr Zehra Onen Dumlu, email zod23@bath.ac.uk, however please ensure that you submit your application through the university website.

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