Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas United States

Assistant, Associate

  • POSTED ON
    November 23, 2022
  • PRIORITY DATE
    December 15, 2022
  • FINAL DATE
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The Area of Marketing and Supply Chain Management in the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of an assistant or associate professor to begin in Fall 2023. We invite applicants with research interests in any aspect of Marketing and with any sub-disciplinary background.

Qualified applicants at the assistant level must possess a strong commitment to excellence in teaching. At the associate level, evidence of effective teaching in the area of Marketing is required. A demonstrated and ongoing commitment to serving diverse student populations is desired. Successful candidates at the assistant level must possess a promising program of high quality and interesting research. At the Associate level, a demonstrated record of publishing impactful research in the top tier journals is expected. Candidates who have 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 to the area, college, university, and profession is expected. Candidates must hold a doctorate in marketing or a related field (or must have earned a doctorate by August 2023). Salary and benefits are competitive and include a reduced teaching load and summer support for at least the first three years.

Interested applicants should apply online at http://www.texastech.edu/careers using the requisition number 31140BR and 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. Mayukh Dass, Box 42101, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-2101, 806-834-1924, Mayukh.Dass@ttu.edu. Review of applications will begin immediately, and submission of applications by December 15, 2022 is preferred.

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 24 faculty members and 9 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 launched a new Sales & CRM Excellence Center.

The Rawls College of Business is AACSB accredited. Rawls College is dedicated to fostering a community in which all students, staff and faculty feel accepted and appreciated. We exist in an interconnected world and strive to educate our students to become globally conscious business leaders. To that end, we encourage our students, staff and faculty to recognize and value diverse perspectives throughout their careers. 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 78 tenured or tenure-track faculty members and 52 non-tenure-track faculty members. The college has approximately 5,000 undergraduate, 800 masters, and 60 doctoral students.

As an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, Texas Tech University is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse faculty committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment. We actively encourage applications from all those who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and/or service, to the diversity and excellence of the academic community at Texas Tech University. The university welcomes applications from minoritized candidates, women, protected veterans, persons with disabilities, and dual-career couples.

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 more than 300,000 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.