Assistant Professor (Open Rank)
24770BR
Rawls College of Business
Position Description
Contributes to the university’s mission through teaching, research and service, some variation by academic unit.
About the Department and/or College
The Area of Marketing and Supply Chain Management offers a Bachelor of Business Administration in both Marketing and Supply Chain Management. In addition, students can enhance their abilities by completing a concentration in sales or supply chain management. The area also offers an online MS in Marketing Research & Analytics degree. The area currently has 21 faculty members and 11 doctoral students. Our award-winning faculty members publish research in top journals in the field and are subject-matter experts in consumer behavior, marketing theory, marketing strategy, sales management, and supply chain management. The area takes pride in excellence in teaching and has been awarded the Texas Tech University Departmental Excellence in Teaching Award. In the fall of 2018, the area has launched a new Sales & CRM Excellence Center.
The Rawls College of Business is AACSB accredited. The college strives to foster, value, and embrace diversity, and create an equitable and inclusive environment in which all members of our community feel safe, respected and empowered. It offers a BBA degree with majors in accounting, energy commerce, finance, information systems, marketing, management, and supply chain management. It has three MBA programs: Professional MBA, Online MBA, and the STEM MBA. It also offers MS degrees in accounting, data science, finance, and marketing research & analytics. In addition, it offers a Ph.D. with concentrations in accounting, finance, information systems & quantitative science, management, and marketing. It has 73 tenured or tenure-track faculty members and 46 non-tenure-track faculty members. The college has approximately 4,800 undergraduate, 850 masters, and 55 doctoral students.
Major/Essential Functions
The Area of Marketing and Supply Chain Management in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University invites applications for up to two tenure-track faculty positions at the rank of an assistant professor, advanced assistant professor, or associate professor to begin in Fall 2022. Expertise in sales, marketing research, marketing/sales analytics, marketing models, marketing management, and related domains is desired. We invite applicants with research interests in any aspect of Marketing and with any sub-disciplinary background.
Qualified applicants should be prepared to teach personal selling, sales management, customer relationship management, marketing analytics, marketing research, sales analytics, or digital marketing/social media marketing analytics at the undergraduate and at the master’s level. A demonstrated and ongoing commitment to serving diverse student populations is desired. Candidates should have a demonstrated record or potential for publishing in top-tier academic marketing journals, a strong commitment to excellence in teaching (evidenced by positive teaching evaluations, teaching awards, etc.), a desire to participate in doctoral education, and an interest in teaching online classes. A demonstrated and ongoing commitment to serving diverse student populations and experience working with diverse student populations and first-generation students is highly desirable. Candidates who have very strong records of scholarship supported by extramural funding and who have the proven capacity or clear potential to bring externally sponsored research to Texas Tech University are encouraged to apply. Service duties include program-building, as well as commitment to extra-curricular activities. Service to the department, college, and university is expected. Candidates must hold a doctorate in marketing (or must have earned a doctorate by August 2022) from an AACSB International accredited university. Salary and benefits are competitive.
Interested applicants should submit (1) a letter of interest, (2) a curriculum vitae, (3) three letters of recommendations, (4) diversity statement, and (5) a summary of teaching evaluations (in particular, the key “instructor effectiveness” metric) for the last three years. For additional information, please contact Dr. Sreedhar Madhavaram, Box 42101, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-2101, 806-834-8667, [email protected]. Review of applications will begin immediately, and submission of applications by August 15, 2021 is preferred.
Texas Tech University is a Carnegie Very High Research Activity University (Tier1) and a Hispanic Serving Institution with approximately 40,000 students. The university is built in Spanish Renaissance architecture and boasts one of the top university public art collections in the nation, with works from some of the world’s leading contemporary artists. Texas Tech is located in Lubbock, a city of 260,000 in the South Plains region of Texas. With broad streets and an excellent highway system, Lubbock has the shortest average commute in the nation; nearly every point-to-point trip in the city takes 15 minutes or less. The cost of living is low compared with most metropolitan areas in the U.S., and Texas has no state income tax. Excellent public and private schools are available. The climate is desirable: winters are short and relatively mild, and summers are sunny with low humidity
Organization
Texas Tech University
Required Qualifications
Candidates must hold a doctorate in marketing (or must have earned a doctorate by August 2022) from an AACSB International accredited university. Demonstrated record of effectiveness as a teacher, a record of peer reviewed publication and/or peer-reviewed creative activity which has contributed to the discipline or field of study, to the candidate’s intellectual and artistic development, and to the quality of the academic enterprise; a record of professional service appropriate to the discipline; promise of growth in teaching and research or artistic and creative activity