Senior Fellow in Management Practice (Scenarios and Foresight)

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Job summary

Saïd Business School at Oxford is seeking a Senior Fellow of Management Practice focusing on strategy with an emphasis on scenarios and foresight. The role involves teaching senior executive programmes, engaging in impactful research, and overseeing programme development, contributing to a dynamic academic community. Candidates should possess a PhD and have a strong record of publications and successful teaching experience.

Qualifications

• PhD in a relevant discipline required.
• Experience in teaching and research in strategy, scenarios, and foresight.
• Proven publication record in academic or practitioner-oriented journals.

Responsibilities

• Designing strategy-related teaching and courses.
• Engaging in practitioner-oriented research.
• Leading executive education programmes in strategy.

Skills

Teaching

Research

Strategic planning

Education

PhD in relevant discipline

Job description

Strategy, Scenarios, and Foresight at Oxford

Saïd Business School has a 20-year tradition of research, teaching and engagement in scenarios and foresight. The executive Oxford Scenarios Programme (OSP) has won a British Academy of Management Education Practice Award, and its faculty have published and engaged widely. Recently, the Oxford-Hyundai Motor Group Foresight Centre has been established focusing on contributing significant new research to the scholarly understanding of how foresight is conducted to inform business strategy, while also producing impactful outputs for practitioners. Scenarios and foresight are part of the School’s Strategy group based in the Strategy, Innovation and Marketing (SIM) Academic Area. The group examines strategy through a wide lens, exploring the processes, practices, and people associated with organizational strategy. The group is interdisciplinary –grounded in sociology, psychology, economics, cognitive science, and political science, as well as the arts and the humanities. Members regularly publish in top-tier journals and take leadership positions within the discipline internationally.

Overview of the Post

Saïd Business School wishes to appoint a leading management practice faculty member in the field of Strategy focusing on scenarios and foresight. The position is available from 1 January 2026 or at a different date by negotiation.The post holder will have an international standing and reputation in their field that will enhance the Division’s reputation for excellence in teaching, public engagement and research. They will have a range of published outputs recognised as world-leading in the context of professional practice and a demonstrable ability to teach effectively across a broad range of programmes particularly in executive
education programmes for senior leaders from business and government.

Closing date is 12:00 midday GMT on Monday the 25th of August.

The role of Senior Fellow of Management Practice at Oxford

As Senior Fellow of Management Practice you will underpin strategic expansion in Executive Education over the next few years. The School aims to attract practitioners and scholars who are at different stages in their careers but who are all working towards achieving a mixture of some or all of the following
attributes: significant publication record, the potential to address the Impact agenda as characterised by the UK Government and Research Excellence Framework, undertaking scholarly practice, authorship of best-selling and award winning practice-orientated books, recognition as leading business thinkers, and
award-winning teachers.

You will be a full member of the University’s faculty and are expected to play an important role in the life of the University and the Saïd Business School. You will join a lively, intellectually stimulating and multi-disciplinary community both at the School and in the wider University that performs to the highest international levels in research and teaching, with extraordinary levels of innovation, creativity and entrepreneurship.

Oxford offers many opportunities for professional development in research and teaching. Senior Management Practice Fellows may apply for the title of full Professor in annual exercises.

Responsibilities

• To design and carry out strategy-related teaching, focusing primarily on scenarios and foresight, on all types of programmes run by the School, particularly within executive education, by delivering courses throughout the year.
• To engage in strategy-related (primarily but not necessarily strictly limited to scenarios and foresight)
  practitioner-oriented research. This will include publishing articles in top practitioner-orientated and
  academic journals, as well as the publication of scholarly and practice-orientated books.
• To engage in external engagement activities that will contribute to the generation of tangible, relevant,
  and measurable impact derived from research and teaching activities.
• To lead the design and development of executive education programmes in strategy, with a main focus
  on programmes involving scenarios and foresight, understanding client needs and objectives, creating
  innovative and appropriate programme architectures, and selecting and briefing appropriate teaching
  faculty. This will also include developing and managing a network of relationships within existing and
  prospective clients, working with the School’s Executive Education and Corporate Relations teams as
  appropriate.
• To take the role of Academic and/or Programme Director in the delivery of assigned executive education
  programmes, which includes setting and managing participant expectations, positioning each
  programme session and its objectives within the overall design, and reviewing evaluations and planning
  continuous improvement.
• To have on-going liaison with participants and host organisations for the assigned programmes,monitoring the impact of the programme and opportunities for appropriate follow-up.
• To build upon and develop the Oxford approach to scenarios and foresight.
• To contribute to the life and work of the Oxford-Hyundai Motor Group Foresight Centre.
  
  The post-holder ultimately will be responsible to the Peter Moores Dean and Deputy Dean (Faculty and
  Research) at the Saïd Business School.

Applications will be judged only against the criteria which are set out below. Applicants should make sure that their application shows very clearly how they believe that their skills and experience meet these criteria.

Oxford is committed to fairness, consistency and transparency in selection decisions. Chairs of selection committees will be aware of the principles of equality of opportunity and fair selection and there will be both male and female committee members wherever possible.

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following:

• A PhD in a relevant discipline.
• Individuals will have published articles in academic and/or practitioner-oriented journals orientated toward practice in strategy, scenarios, and foresight.
• Individuals will have a reputation as outstanding practice-oriented teachers and programme directors in scenarios, foresight and/or strategy, particularly with experience in successfully designing and delivering programmes to senior executive audiences.
• Individuals will be knowledgeable of, if not experienced in, the Oxford approach to scenarios and foresight.
• Individuals will have developed significant expertise in their subject and will be considered as leading or emerging business thinkers.
• Individuals will have produced work that has impacted practice and/or policy.
• Individuals will have contributed to administration and leadership within the higher education sector and/or industry and will have shown demonstrable competence in such work.