"Lecturer in Empirical Operations/Supply Chain/Project Management"

About the role:

Are you on the Operations Management / Supply Chain Management / Project Management academic job market this year?

The School of Management at the University of Bath is inviting applications for a Lecturer / Assistant Professor (Research & Teaching) to work within the Information, Decisions and Operations (IDO) Division.

The IDO Division consists of around 35 faculty with diverse research portfolios, ranging from empirical OM / SCM / PM (see for example Jens Roehrich), OR / MS / Analytics (see for example Maria Battarra), and IS / cyber security (see for example, Adam Joinson). For a look at the kind of work we do, see the IDO website, Centre for Smart Warehousing and Logistics Systems, Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats, and Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement (CHI²).

Bath School of Management is one of the highest-ranking management schools in Europe in terms of both its research and education. Research support includes funding for conference attendance, data collection and research visits; a dedicated grant support team; and generous research allowances within our workload.

About you:

In addition to the research role, you will contribute to our range of highly rated undergraduate and postgraduate offerings.

The Division’s teaching portfolio includes specialist MSc programmes in Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management; Business Analytics; Innovation and Technology Management; and Engineering and Business Management, as well as more general management undergraduate and MBA programmes.

We expect the successful candidate to be able to teach in the areas of operations management, operations strategy, supply chain management, and/or project management. As we grow our portfolio of on-line delivery, we are also interested in candidates who have experience in designing and delivering via digital channels.

Further Information:

This role is offered on a full-time (36.5 hours per week), permanent basis.

Interview dates for this position are 6 November 2025 and 7 November 2025.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Vaggelis Giannikas (Head of Division) or Joanne Hinds (Senior Lecturer). However please ensure that you submit your application through the university website.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students and encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We're very proud to be a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, an accredited Disability Confident Leader, autism friendly university, committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

What we can offer you:

We're continually expanding our benefits package to better support you and enhance your experience with us and the below is just an example of some of the many great benefits we offer:

• Free counselling services through Health Assured
• Cycle to work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme
• Staff discount at Team Bath gym
• Staff discounts on postgraduate tuition fees
• Staff discount on language courses
• Generous employer contributory pension schemes