Job Description

Housed in the state of the art architecturally designed Sir Owen G Glenn Building, our top-ranked, triple-crown accredited University of Auckland Business School is seeking to recruit established and early career academics to join its world class faculty. It is the largest business school in New Zealand and has an international reputation for academic excellence. The Business School comprises seven academic departments with a strong reputation across the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. We support exceptional, internationally recognised faculty who are characterised by their desire to make a difference to business in New Zealand, the global economy and society more generally. The University has recently set a new strategic plan, Taumata Teitei, which can be interpreted from te reo Mori as pursuing excellence, despite uncertainty. It recognises the exciting challenges posed by the concerns of our age. Applications are encouraged from scholars who are committed to making an impact through research and teaching and with interests in any area of relevance to business.Our Business School strives to influence policy development, research and thought leadership in New Zealand business with particular focus on our four strategic research and education themes – innovation and value creation, succeeding in international markets, productivity and sustainable business and leadership and governance. We also have an ecosystem of well supported Research centres across the disciplines. Your desire to identify and promote opportunities for industry engagement will further enhance the reputation, relevance and influence of the Business School.All academics within the Business School will be based in disciplinary areas that form part of larger academic departments, you will have responsibility for delivering high quality, relevant and impactful learning experiences that maximise employment outcomes for graduates. Your understanding of academic and business environments and engagement in co-curricular activities relating to business, will help deliver wider economic benefits. The disciplinary areas are intended to provide a supportive and collegial environment for all researchers and in particular to ensure focused mentoring for early career researchers.The School enjoys excellent international links and leading scholars from top overseas universities often visit the Business School and teach courses in our undergraduate and post graduate programmes.The Marketing DepartmentThe Department of Marketing, one of seven departments within the Faculty of Business and Economics, is the top ranked Marketing Department in New Zealand. The teaching programme is strong and innovative and the quality of teaching, as judged by student evaluations and by peer review, is very high. The academics in the Department of Marketing have an excellent publication record and are publishing their work in the very best journals in their field. Their research is organised in two disciplinary areas: A) Marketing Science & Consumer Research and B) Strategic Marketing & Digital Technology. The Department offers a full suite of degree programmes, including contributing to undergraduate core courses, an undergraduate marketing major, and Honours, Masters, and PhD programmes. The Department also contributes to the Master of Business Administration, the Master of Business Analytics, and the Master of Business Management programmes of the Graduate School of Management.