Assistant Professor (Practice) in Digital Supply Chain Excellence

Are you currently an industrial practitioner who has experience in digital supply chain management and business analytics with some experience and knowledge in AI/Machine Learning, programme languages, web development and system integration? Are you looking for a role that provides you with an opportunity to use your knowledge/skill to inform the industry?

About the role

The “Centre for Digital Supply Chain Excellence” in the Newcastle Business School is keen to appoint a candidate to the role of Assistant Professor (Practice) across the following core subject area:

• Digital supply chain management: with subject expertise in areas such as digital supply chain management and operations excellence and with experience and skills in programming languages, data analytics, database management, web development, machine learning/AI, system integration and cloud computing

Based at our Newcastle campus, you will work as part of multi-disciplinary team at the “Centre for Digital Supply Chain Excellence” responsible for contributing to industry-faced projects, research, knowledge exchange and business and enterprise engagement activity.

Your main duties will be associated with working closely with the Director of the “Centre for Digital Supply Chain Excellence” and the academic team attached to the Centre to fulfil the tasks such as contract research projects and collaborative research projects working with the industry, knowledge exchange activities, and some relevant research admin and leadership tasks. There might be some teaching and training activities required for the role if necessary.

About the team

The “Centre for Digital Supply Chain Excellence” is the physical platform for co-creating knowledge with impactful projects benefiting the stakeholders that may include immediate clients, academics and students. You will meet the team of academics attached to the Centre working with you in number of different projects. You will also directly work with the business development manager for industry-faced activities and tasks that include admin and research activities.

About you

Applicants should hold a degree qualification in the relevant area e.g. data science, computer science and have demonstrable specialist expert knowledge and subject expertise in supply chain and operations management.

Experience and skills in programming languages, data analytics, database management, web development, machine learning/AI, system integration and cloud computing is essential.

Applicates must also have recent industrial experience working with or in the industrial sector closely.

Further information about the requirements of the Assistant Professor (Practice) role is available in the person specification.

Please note, this is a fixed-term vacancy for 23 months.

If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact:

Dr. Alireza Shokri - alireza.shokri@northumbria.ac.uk.

We welcome applications from the UK and across the world. Visit our webpage for details about Relocation Assistance.

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now'. Your application should include a covering letter and a CV. Please ensure your CV includes research/education statements, and grants and publications list highlighting your highest quality research outputs up to a maximum of four. For your most recent grants please include the grant title, funder reference, funder, amount, and your role.  In addition, you are asked to provide copies of the top two research outputs (Journal/book chapter/practice-based portfolio).

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