Senior Fellow in Management Practice (Scenarios and Foresight)

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford; Oxford; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Saïd Business School seeks a leading faculty member in Strategy with a focus on scenarios and foresight. The ideal candidate will have a PhD, a strong teaching reputation, and a background in impactful research. Responsibilities encompass teaching, engaging in practitioner-oriented research, and leading executive education programs. This role will contribute significantly to the school's reputation and the Oxford approach to scenarios and foresight.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a practice-oriented teacher and program director.
• Expertise in strategy, scenarios, and foresight.
• Published articles in academic and practitioner-oriented journals.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver teaching in strategy related to scenarios and foresight.
• Engage in practitioner-oriented research and external engagement.
• Lead the development of executive education programs.

Skills

Teaching

Research

Public Engagement

Education

PhD in relevant discipline

Job description

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 organisational 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.

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.

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.