[AISWorld] Assistant Professorship (Tenure Track Position) in Digital Supply Chain Management - Application deadline: September 15th

[Eckhardt, Andreas]

Announcement: Assistant Professorship (Tenure Track Position) in Digital Supply Chain Management

The Department of Information Systems, Production and Logistics Management at the Faculty of Business and Management at the Leopold-Franzens University Innsbruck seeks to fill an Assistant Professorship (Tenure Track Position) in Digital Supply Chain Management at the earliest convenience.

Responsibilities include:
This tenure-track position is to conduct independent research and teaching in the area of Business Administration, in particular Digital Supply Chain Management.
The main areas of research should be the design, planning and control of value-adding processes, internally (production planning and control) and/or in logistical networks (supply chain management), based on empirical methods of decision support made possible by new technological developments in the context of digitalization. Operations research, business analytics and artificial intelligence are particularly relevant here.

Close collaboration with the research center Innsbruck Decision Sciences (IDS) and the Digital Science Center (DiSC) is expected, as well as participation in the cross-faculty research platform Economy, Politics & Society (EPoS). The position is also intended to act as a linkage between the teaching and research areas of information systems and production and logistics management.
Teaching comprises the (co-)supervision of courses primarily in the Bachelor program Management and Economics and the Master program Information Systems in the area of Production and Logistics Management or Operations Management, respectively, as well as the (co-)supervision of theses.
Participation in academic self-administration is taken for granted.

Employment Requirements include:
a) pertinent doctoral degree in business/management (or a related discipline);
b) pertinent post-doc experience and/or professional experience;
c) output beyond the PhD, documented by publications in international peer reviewed journals;
d) interdisciplinary work;
e) international contacts;
f) involvement in research projects and acquisition of competitive grants;
g) pronounced teaching skills and experience with (co-) supervising students;
h) communication skills for team work;
i) organizational and management qualities;
j) fluency in English is required; knowledge of the German language is not strictly required for this position, but the successful applicant will convincingly demonstrate her/his willingness to become proficient in the language at the level of teaching in the BSc program.

Format of the Position:
At the University of Innsbruck, a ‘tenure-track position’ enables the pursuit of a career up to tenured full professor.
The successful applicant will enter a six-years’ work contract on the basis of the ‘Angestelltengesetz’ (Employees Act; extent of employment: 100%) and at the same time concludes a ‘Qualification Agreement’ according to § 27 of the ‘Kollektivvertrag’ (Austrian Collective Labor Agreement for university personnel); (s)he will start her/his occupation at the rank of Assistant Professor.

Once the targets of the ‘Qualification Agreement’ are reached, the position will be tenured, thus promoting the holder of the position to Associate Professor.
Subsequently, a full professor position according to § 99 (4) of the ‘Universitätsgesetz’ (Austrian University Act) will be opened, for which the Associate Professor is eligible to apply.

Your application must have arrived by September 15, 2022 at
Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
Fakultäten Servicestelle Standort
Karl-Rahner- Platz 3,
A-6020 Innsbruck

Or via email to: fss-karlrahnerplatz at uibk.ac.at

Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck seeks to increase the proportion of female scientists in the faculty – so that applications from top-qualified female scientists are especially encouraged.

With equal qualification, female applicants will be given priority.
In line with the ‘Kollektivvertrag’ (Austrian Collective Labor Agreement for university personnel) scientists who have entered a ‘Qualification Agreement’ are in remuneration group A2 with an initial wage of € 4.782,30 / month (14 times). After fulfillment of the Agreement, the salary rises to € 5.175,50 / month (14 times). Moreover, the university offers attractive additional benefits (see http://www.uibk.ac.at/universitaet/zusatzleistungen).
The application must at least contain a full CV including the scientific and professional career stages; a list of scientific publications, speeches as well as other scientific activities (like seminars, conferences, etc.); Description of completed, ongoing and planned research projects and the five most important works of the applicant. Research and teaching concept, as well as a statement of the qualification goals which the applicant wishes to reach at this position. These are to be explained at the hearing and subsequently represent the starting point for the negotiation of the ‘Qualification Agreement’.

The application must be submitted in digital form (e-mail, etc.) and may be complemented by a paper submission.
The full, authoritative text in German (published in the official bulletin of the University of 20.07.2022) can be found at https://orawww.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.home.

Up-to-date information on the state of the opening can be found at
https://www.uibk.ac.at/fakultaeten-servicestelle/standorte/karlrahnerplatz3/berufung/

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Tilmann Maerk
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Dr. Andreas Eckhardt

Professor of Information Systems

Department of Information Systems, Production and Logistics Management
University of Innsbruck
Universitätsstrasse 15 I A-6020 Innsbruck

Phone: +43-512-507-73243
Email: andreas.eckhardt at uibk.ac.at  | Web:  https://www.uibk.ac.at