The Department is seeking a Full Professor of Marketing Analytics, in a part-time appointment. The key role of the professor will be to mentor and support (junior) faculty and doctoral students in building their portfolios, to secure funding from second and third streams, and to build the group’s international reputation and network. In support of this, the goal should be to enhance collaboration with other marketing groups, but also with other disciplines within SBE and VU to strengthen the position of the Department in the increasingly interdisciplinary environment of business research. The new professor should furthermore play a role in the currently developing Research Master in Data Science, that is developed within the Tinbergen Institute.

Your duties

• mentor and support (junior) faculty and doctoral students in building their portfolios
• secure funding from second and third streams
• build the group’s international reputation and network
• enhance collaboration with other marketing groups, but also with other disciplines within SBE and VU
• developing Research Master in Data Science

• holds a PhD in Marketing
• has strong track record with publications in top-tier journals (AI > 80) in quantitative marketing
• has a strong international research network
• shows high potential for a productive research career at the forefront and top level of the marketing field
• has shown a clear interest in societally and managerially relevant research in marketing, with a focus on understanding the interactions between companies and consumers, and translating them into better organizational practices in marketing
• has a proven ability to create cohesion and stimulate collaboration in research
• has experience in supervising junior researchers and doctoral students
• the candidate has demonstrated evidence of successful research valorization, translating and communicating marketing knowledge to professional practice
• has excellent teaching evaluations and is able to teach students within various programmes at undergraduate, postgraduate and post-experience level
• has the potential to exploit the opportunities in education, dissemination, and valorization in the field of Marketing Analytics

A challenging position in a socially involved organization. On full-time basis the remuneration amounts to a minimum gross monthly salary of €5,582 (H2) and a maximum €8,127 (H2), depending on your education and experience. The job profile: is based on the university job ranking system and is vacant for at least 0.2 FTE.

The initial employment contract will affect a period of 5 years, with the possibility of extension. Additionally, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam offers excellent fringe benefits and various schemes and regulations to promote a good work/life balance, such as:

• a maximum of 41 days of annual leave based on full-time employment
• 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus
• solid pension scheme (ABP)
• contribution to commuting expenses
• optional model for designing a personalized benefits package

https://workingat.vu.nl/vacancies

The ambition of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is clear: to contribute to a better world through outstanding education and ground-breaking research. And to be a university where personal education and societal involvement play a leading role. Where people from different disciplines and backgrounds work together on innovations and on generating new knowledge. Our teaching and research embrace the whole spectrum of science – from the humanities, the social sciences and the pure sciences through to the life sciences and the medical sciences.
 
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is home to more than 23,000 students. We employ more than 4,500 individuals. The VU campus is easily accessible, located in the heart of Amsterdam’s Zuidas district, a truly inspiring environment for teaching and research.

Diversity is one of our university’s core values. We are an inclusive community, and we believe that diversity and international activities enhance the quality of education and research. We are always looking for people who can enhance diversity on our campus thanks to their background and experience.

The School of Business and Economics (SBE) provides high-quality education and excellent research in business administration and economics with a focus on contributing to the social, economic and ecological challenges of our time. Whether it is the use of robots in society or big data, labour market participation or flexibility in the labour market, traffic jams or the housing market, flash crashes in the stock market or choice behaviour in gambling, leadership or change management: we believe in goal-oriented scientific research and understand that progress in academics, the business community and society is achieved through cooperation, openness and social responsibility.

At SBE, all of our highly-motivated colleagues work together closely in a stimulating, dynamic and international environment to achieve our collective goal of encouraging society to make informed choices. Approximately 4,200 Bachelor’s and Master’s students and 1,700 executive students are enrolled at the School, and employs roughly 500 people.

The Department of Marketing at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration is responsible for teaching and research in the marketing discipline. The ambition of the Department of Marketing is to further strengthen its position in the Netherlands and among the top groups in Europe. The growth of the research group with many young faculty on tenure track positions calls for senior faculty with capabilities to supervise junior faculty and doctoral students and to stimulate people to make connections.