academic position in Digital Business starting on October 1, 2018.
HEC® Liège is the management school of the University of Liège. HEC® Liège
is one of the leading Belgian university business schools for graduate and
postgraduate programs with more than 115 full-time faculty members and
researchers and more than 2500 students. HEC® Liège is a dynamic
institution that heavily promotes an active pedagogy leading students to
contribute actively to their own education. The international vision of
HEC® Liège translates into multiple research activities in management and
economics, numerous partnerships with worldwide companies and
universities, and growing internationalization of its programs and
faculty.
The school's commitment to, and continuing investment in, quality
improvement has been recognized through the EQUIS award delivered by the
international accreditation body EFMD. HEC® Liège also holds the EPAS
award for each of its three main programmes: the Master in Management, the
Master in Business Engineering, and the Doctoral Program. The
specialization "Banking and Asset Management" of the Master in Management
has recently been accepted into the CFA Institute University Recognition
Program. HEC® Liège is also a member of the Conférence des Grandes Ecoles.
HEC® Liège is located in Liège, Belgium's third largest city, and the
largest agglomeration of the French-speaking Walloon region. At the heart
of Europe, Liège is the third inland port of Europe and the seventh
freight airport in Europe. Recognized for its quality of life and its rich
historical heritage, Liège is ideally situated within the Meuse-Rhin
Euregio, 30 km from Maastricht (the Netherlands) and 60 km from Aachen
(Germany). It is less than 1.5 hours away from Cologne, 2.5 hours from
Paris and 4 hours from London by high-speed train (TGV) starting from the
new magnificent train station designed by the renowned architect Santiago
Calatrava.
A description of the HEC® Liège work environment can be found at:
http://www.hec.ulg.ac.be/en/hec-liege/strengths-of-hec-liege
Job description:
Prerequisites for qualification are a Ph.D. (management science,
information systems, computer science, statistics, mathematics, applied
sciences, industrial engineering, operations research,…) with a focus on
"Digital business". The candidate should demonstrate an excellent research
potential and a keen interest in management applications, with significant
international exposure.
The candidate will be responsible for a teaching load at the undergraduate
and graduate levels, including introductory courses in management
information systems. The successful candidate will be assigned specialized
courses based on his/her profile and experience.
The official administrative language used at HEC Liège is French and the
candidate will need to teach courses in English and in French. The
candidate should have excellent knowledge of English. If the candidate
does not have the required level of French, he/she will be given the
opportunity to take French language training courses provided by ULiège to
enable the candidate to teach courses in French, to take part in
administrative meetings, and to take up internal service duties.
The candidate will become a member of the research center QuantOM and is
expected to contribute to the development of the research center
activities in "Supply chain management and business analytics", one of the
strategic research fields of HEC Liège
(http://www.hec.ulg.ac.be/en/faculty-research/fields-research-centers/supp
ly-chain-management-business-analytics). The School is especially
interested in candidates with a strong background and a scientific
interest in management information systems and novel digital technologies
(blockchain, augmented and virtual reality, SaaS, IoT, …) and their
adoption and impact on the evolution of business models, in particular in
supply chain management. Areas of interest include business process
modeling and enterprise architecture, ERP systems, logistics information
systems, business analytics, knowledge management, ...
Tenure track candidates start with limited teaching duties allowing them
to allocate 40% of their working time to research activities. A positive
evaluation at the end of the probation period is subject to the
candidate's demonstrated performance in teaching and research. In
particular, the candidate is expected to
- deliver high quality teaching;
- develop new and active teaching methods;
- supervise Master theses;
- contribute to the continuing evolution of the School's teaching
programs;
- publish scientific articles in relevant and top-tier refereed journals,
as well as books and book chapters;
- develop new research projects and write grant proposals for attracting
internal and external research funding;
- supervise doctoral research;
- be involved in international research networks;
- actively take part in the organization of research activities of the
corresponding strategic field at HEC Liège, such as research seminars,
workshops, and scientific conferences;
- participate in research projects and missions for the account of, and
grow partnerships with, private organizations and/or public authorities.
Application package:
- Motivation letter and curriculum vitae showing the experience/expertise
of the candidate in digital business;
- List of recent publications and international and national
collaborations/projects;
- Letter describing their research interest (5 pages at most);
- Recommendation letters
To be sent, by registered post, to Professor A. Corhay, Recteur,
Université de Liège, 7 Place du 20 Août, 4000 Liège, Belgium, by April, 17
2018
with an electronic copy to sylvie.borras[at]uliege.be
For further information, contact Professor Y. Arda
(yasemin.arda[at]uliege.be).
The salary grids and their rules of application are available from the
University's Human Resource Office: Mrs Ludivine DEPAS – tel.: +32 4 366
52 04 – ludivine.depas[at]uliege.be.
Terms of appointment:
Academic posts are allocated for an initial fixed term of four years
which, following evaluations after three years, may lead to a permanent
appointment.
At the end of the third year, an evaluation of the subject area and an
evaluation of the person concerned are carried out simultaneously by
different bodies, with following possible outcomes:
(A) If the evaluation of the subject area is negative, whatever the result
of the assessment of the person concerned, the latter can complete his or
her term of 4 years without the possibility of an extension.
(B) If the evaluations of the subject area and the person concerned are
positive, the latter will be appointed permanently.
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Yasemin ARDA
Full Professor - Supply Chain Management
HEC Liège - Management School of the University of Liège
QuantOM (Quantitative methods and Operations Management) Research Centre
Rue Louvrex, 14 / Bât N1 / 4000 Liège / Belgium
<mailto:yasemin.arda@uliege.be> yasemin.arda@uliege.be
Tel: +32 (0) 4 366 31 97
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