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Job Title: Lecturer / Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor / Associate Professor equivalent)

University: Lancaster University, Centre for Forecasting, Management Science & Marketing Analytics
Location: Lancaster, United Kingdom

You will ideally have interests in business and marketing analytics (the use of quantitative models to support marketing decisions) to strengthen the department's teaching and research. Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to, dynamic issues of Marketing Engineering, such as dynamic market response models, modeling the impact of promotions and elasticities, stochastic consumer behavior models, adoption and diffusion modeling, marketing applications in the context of forecasting and time series analysis, or the use of analytical approaches to Market Research or Direct Marketing in general.

Candidates will join an existing group of four academic staff who research and teach this area of work and are responsible for the MSc in Management Science & Marketing Analytics. You should have a relevant PhD, a publication record that demonstrates the potential for international excellence and be comfortable teaching postgraduate students. Staff are expected to conduct internationally excellent academic research, as well as engaging with external organisations in applied industry projects using empirical data.

The department is based at Lancaster University Management School (LUMS), a triple-accredited, world-ranked management school, consistently among the UK's top five. Lancaster is among the few leading business schools to combine excellence in research with a student-centred campus, and a full spectrum of undergraduate, postgraduate, PhD and executive programmes. Leadership programmes for multinational companies and outreach provision for SMEs are of equal importance to our mission.

The position is at the Department of Management Science, one of the longest established of its type in Europe, and with 35 members of staff and 50+ PhD students one of the UK's largest departments, which spans research on Operational Research, Operations Management, and Systems and Information Management. It is also host to the Lancaster Centre for Forecasting, with frequent industry projects and executive training courses in forecasting, time series prediction and data mining.

Salary: £31,798 to £52,556
Closing Date: Monday 21 November 2011

Informal enquiries should be made to:
, Head of the Department of Management Science
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Posted: Nov. 4, 2011

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Job Title: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Lancaster Centre for Forecasting

University: Lancaster University Management School, Department of Management Science
Location: Lancaster, United Kingdom

Applications are invited for a two-year post-doctoral position to commence early in 2012, funded by the Lancaster Research Centre for Forecasting.

You should have the potential to develop academic and applied research of international standard; research interest and expertise should include the areas of time series forecasting, and / or time series data mining, either with methods of statistics, econometrics, machine learning or computational intelligence (e.g. artificial Neural Networks, etc), preferably in the context of management science, operational research or operations management. You should have, or almost have, excellent Masters and PhD degrees in management, engineering or computer science (or in a related subject area), with initial publications in preparation for leading scholarly journals. Corporate experience from applied research and consultancy projects is particularly valued. You will also have excellent verbal/written communication skills, a strong quantitative background, and basic computer programming experience (in C#, Matlab, or R etc.).

You would be expected to work approximately two days per week for the forecasting centre under the supervision of Dr Sven F Crone and Prof Robert Fildes, and to engage in joint research with the team in the remainder. You will work with academic colleagues and students whilst developing their research agenda. In addition to all aspects of academic research you will support the Forecasting Centre by engaging in applied forecasting research projects with companies, liaising with external clients, providing support in executive education courses and supporting the above activities through marketing and administration.

If you are selected to go through to the next stage of recruitment you will be asked to provide a complete research proposal in the area of forecasting or data mining on time series data according to the guidelines provided online which can be found at: www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/departments/ManSci/Research/

Enquiries on the research topics should be directed to either: Professor Robert Fildes (Tel: +44 1524 593879) or Dr. Sven F. Crone, Directors, Lancaster Centre for Forecasting (Tel: +44 1524 592991) - Email: or .

Salary:             £25,251 to £35,938
Closing Date:    Monday 12 March 2012
Interview Date: Monday 26 March 2012
Reference:        A363

Posted: Jan. 31, 2012

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