Assistant Professor of Marketing (tenure track)

  • 32 – 40 hours per week
  • Maximum gross monthly salary: € 5,127
  • Nijmegen School of Management
  • Required background: PhD
  • Duration of the contract: 4 years
  • Application deadline: 15 November 2020

We are looking for

We are looking for an Assistant Professor of Marketing. We have a strong preference for a candidate who combines an interest in technological innovation and/or entrepreneurship topics with an interest in responsibility issues related to marketing management. You should be an internationally active researcher in the field of Marketing. You will teach courses in the Bachelor’s degree programme in Business Administration, the Master’s specialisation in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and/or the Master’s specialisation in Marketing. In addition, you will supervise Master’s and Bachelor’s students working on their theses. As an active researcher, you will be expected to contribute to the development of research in line with the department’s Responsible Organization research programme, publish in international high-quality journals, attract external research grants/funding from governmental, European and/or private institutions, supervise PhD candidates, build international networks with businesses and academics, and contribute to the department’s administration and management tasks. We are seeking a highly motivated, committed and collaborative colleague to further strengthen our department.

We ask

You are an ambitious and enthusiastic scientist. You are a great team member, devoted to research and education. To further strengthen our group, your profile should show: 

  • A PhD degree in business administration or a related field.
  • An excellent scientific reputation, evidenced by a pipeline of publications in internationally recognised high-quality journals, preferably on topics that combine marketing management with technological innovation/entrepreneurship and responsibility.
  • The ambition to attract research funding.
  • Strong teaching qualities, an enthusiasm for teaching and working with students, and the capacity to develop and implement innovative teaching methods as well as the ability to coordinate academic courses or study programmes. A Dutch university teaching qualification (BKO or UKO) or equivalent would be an advantage.
  • Proven ability to cooperate with and inspire a team of professionals.
  • Strong connections to organisational and business practice.
  • Substantial international experience and network.
  • Excellent English language skills and a willingness to learn Dutch.

Radboud University has a strong track record in promoting excellent women scholars to leadership positions and we therefore especially welcome female applicants.

We are

The Nijmegen School of Management (NSM) is an academic centre of research and higher education, focusing on institutional and managerial issues within complex organisations. There are seven disciplines within NSM: Business Administration, Public Administration, Political Science, Economics and Business Economics, Social and Political Sciences of the Environment, Human Geography, and Spatial Planning. 
NSM strives for a multidisciplinary approach. The educational programme is characterised by small-scale teaching and provides a stimulating learning environment with an emphasis on the development of academic skills. NSM employs 280 FTEs, 75% of whom are academics. Currently, NSM has approximately 5,000 students. NSM’s research activities fall under the responsibility of the interdisciplinary Institute for Management Research (IMR). Under the motto ‘Creating Knowledge for Society’, IMR focuses on academic research into the development, design and effectiveness of the public and private structures that regulate, govern or manage human interactions. The debate on the fundamentals of academic research in the domains covered by NSM is organised in the IMR Academy; the PhD programme is organised in the IMR Doctoral School. There are six multidisciplinary research groups at IMR focusing on strategic and scientifically and societally relevant issues (including one called Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Business Ecosystems). IMR also hosts an Individual Decision Lab and Group Decision Lab, which are particularly suited for studying collaboration in complex contexts and collective decision-making. 

The Department of Business Administration is responsible for the BSc programmes in Business Administration (including a full track offered in English, and a track in International Business Administration) as well as eight specialisations within the MSc programme in Business Administration (all in English), including one in Marketing and one in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. The department’s interdisciplinary research programme is called Responsible Organisation and addresses the multiple values underlying responsibility, the conditions required to realise those values, and the interventions geared to the transition of organisations towards responsible organisations. The Department of Business Administration co-creates knowledge with multiple stakeholders in the wider community to ensure the impact of its scholarly work. 

The Assistant Professor of Marketing will be a member of the chair group of Marketing, which is part of the department of Business Administration. The group participates in various courses in the Department’s Bachelor’s degree programme and is responsible for the Master’s specialisation in Marketing. The latter focuses on the development and maintenance of relations with existing and new customers and is designed to help students develop the analytical skills needed to study complex management issues from a broad, interdisciplinary business perspective. In addition, the chair group of Marketing has a strong presence in the Master’s specialisation in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which teaches students how to deal with the challenges that entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and innovative firms face when identifying ideas for innovations, managing innovation projects, developing business plans, creating new markets for their innovations, and positioning themselves in a business ecosystem. 

The research conducted by the chair group of Marketing fits in well with the Responsible Organisation research programme of the Department of Business Administration. More specifically, the research of members of the chair group of Marketing focuses on the responsible aspects of consumer behaviour and marketing management and innovation, including topics such as customer co-creation, environmentally friendly consumer behaviour, healthy food consumption, adoption of innovations, stakeholder marketing, market creation for sustainable innovations, open innovation, and green product development. They have published in high-impact journals such as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Service Research, and the Journal of Product Innovation Management.


Radboud University

We want to get the best out of science, others and ourselves. Why? Because this is what the world around us desperately needs. Leading research and education make an indispensable contribution to a healthy, free world with equal opportunities for all. This is what unites the more than 22,000 students and 5,000 employees at Radboud University. And this requires even more talent, collaboration and lifelong learning. You have a part to play!

We offer

  • Employment: 32 – 40 hours per week.
  • A maximum gross monthly salary of € 5,127 based on a 38-hour working week (salary scale 11).
  • The exact salary depends on the candidate’s qualifications and amount of relevant professional experience.
  • In addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
  • Duration of the contract: fixed-term contract for four years. Possibility of extension and permanency depending on your performance.
  • The intended start date is 1 February 2021.
  • Radboud University offers a dynamic position in an attractive work environment and has excellent conditions of employment, including an attractive retirement scheme and (partly paid) maternity leave.
  • Under special circumstances, applicants from abroad moving to the Netherlands may qualify for a special tax relief, by which 30% of their salary is tax free.
  • You will be able to make use of our Dual Career Service: our Dual Career Officer will assist with family-related support, such as child care, and help your partner prepare for the local labour market and with finding an occupation.
  • Are you interested in our excellent employment conditions?

Would you like more information?

Further information on: Nijmegen School of Management
Further information on: Department of Business Administration

For more information about this vacancy, please contact: Prof. dr. Bas Hillebrand , Professor Marketing 
Email: [email protected]

Apply directly

Please address your application to prof. dr. Bas Hillebrand and submit it, using the application button, no later than 15 November 2020, 23:59 Amsterdam Time Zone.   

Your application should include the following attachments:

  • Letter of motivation.
  • CV including a list of publications.
  • Overview of teaching experience and teaching evaluations.

The first round of job interviews is expected to take place in the first week of December 2020 (week 49).


This job advertisement was posted before in early 2020. Applicants who were rejected at the time are kindly requested not to apply again.