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As an equal opportunities employer strongly committed to diversity and inclusion, we encourage applications from women and people from ethnic minority backgrounds as they are currently under-represented at this level in this area. All appointments will be made on merit or skill and experience relative to the role.
Department of Management
Assistant Professor in Management
Salary is competitive with Departments at our peer institutions worldwide and not less than £68,087 pa inclusive, and the salary scale can be found on the LSE website
In addition, this post will attract a significant market salary supplement which reflects current market conditions.
The Department of Management holds a central position within LSE, a globally recognized university specializing in the social sciences, located in the heart of London. The department's faculty and research expertise are focused on various areas, including marketing, information systems and innovation, employment relations and human resource management, organisational behaviour, and managerial economics and strategy.
Faculty members actively engage in research and scholarly activities across LSE, collaborating with research centres such as the Centre for Economic Performance, the Behavioural Lab for Research and Teaching, and various interdisciplinary institutes. The Department’s degree portfolio includes the BSc Management, a Master’s in Management, and a number of specialist Master’s programmes, including the MSc in Marketing.
Successful applicants will have or be close to obtaining a PhD, in Marketing or a closely related discipline, such as Psychology, Economics, Statistics, or Computer Science, by the post start date. We welcome applications from scholars with clearly defined quantitative or behavioural interests. In addition, candidates should demonstrate a clear, well developed, and viable strategy for future outstanding research that has the potential to result in world-leading publications in Marketing. Candidates should also be able to demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills and have the ability to teach on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Management.
The other criteria that will be used when shortlisting for this post can be found on the person specification, which is attached to this vacancy on the LSE’s online recruitment system.
In addition to a competitive salary the benefits that come with this job include an occupational pension scheme, a research incentive scheme with personal reward options, generous research leave (sabbatical) entitlement, a collegial faculty environment and excellent support, training and development opportunities.
For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification.
To apply for this post, please go to www.jobs.lse.ac.uk. If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email dom.facultyaffairs@lse.ac.uk
The closing date for receipt of applications is 16 November 2026 (23.59 UK time). We are unable to accept any late applications.