Affiliate Professor in Marketing F/M

Our School

ESCP Business School (www.escp.eu), founded in 1819, is the oldest business school in the world. It has exhibited strong growth over the past ten years and has ambitious plans for future development and impact in line with its Bold and United strategic plan launched in mid-2025.

We are consistently ranked among the leading business schools in Europe with a wide range of programs: Bachelor, Master, MScs, MBA in International Management and EMBA, Executive Education (open and custom programmes) and PhD. We have six campuses (Paris, London, Berlin, Madrid, Turin and Warsaw), and a branch campus in Dubai. ESCP Business School Affiliate Professors are members of a permanent faculty body of over 180 members across our campuses, and benefit from the support and collegiality of European-level departments representing each discipline.

Role Information

ESCP Business School invites applications for a one-year position of Affiliate Professor in Marketing including a mandate for the Academic Directorship of a highly ranked London-based MSc programme.

Our Department

The European Marketing Department (EDM) consists of 30 full-time faculty from various nationalities, each bringing a wide range of research interests, backgrounds, and methodological approaches. We endeavour to excel in our discipline, respecting principles of diversity, sustainability, academic freedom, and cultivating innovation through curiosity. The EDM nurtures academics, including Affiliate Professors, who strive for international impact through their scholarship and service.

Our London Campus

The London campus offers a highly supportive, multicultural and dynamic environment for dedicated scholars looking to develop their academic career while contributing to our continued success and to our School’s pedagogical mission and strong values. In addition to its centres of excellence in Entrepreneurship, Finance and Sustainability, it has established a solid expertise in Creativity Marketing thanks to its MSc in Marketing and Creativity (ranked no. 3 worldwide among Masters in Marketing by QS), its Creativity Marketing Centre and the L’Oréal Professorship in Creativity Marketing.  London-based students across our undergraduate, graduate and executive programmes and across disciplines, benefit from the state-of-the-art pedagogy of our London-based professors, the multicultural nature of our community, and our integration in the UK business ecosystem.

Role Details

• Salary: £52,849 to £58,828 per annum, pro rata, dependent on FTE
• Directorship: up to an additional £7,200 per annum for responsibilities as an Academic Programme Director, depending on student intake.
• Contract Basis - Fixed term for 12 months
• FTE - Part time, between 0.5 and 0.75 FTE depending on teaching availability
• Location: ESCP Business School London, 527 Finchley Road, London NW3 7BG
• Anticipated start date: November 2026

Benefits

• 30 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
• Company pensions scheme with exceptional employer contributions
• Optional private dental and GP cover (after successful completion of 6 months)
• Hybrid working available
• Birthday leave

Profile required

Candidates seeking appointment at the Affiliate level must have completed their PhD by Summer 2027 at the latest.  Candidates must have experience of teaching, and postgraduate programme leadership, with experience from a comparable institution in the United Kingdom being desirable. Evidence of exposure to international students from around the world is important.

For this particular role, we are looking for candidates with an established senior professional network across a range of sectors, primarily in the UK, from which to source and develop student projects, guest lecturing opportunities and other student-facing activities. A focus on luxury, beauty and fashion, creative industries and the technology sector is desirable. Candidates must demonstrate an up-to-date understanding of the impact of technology, and particularly artificial intelligence, on the practice of marketing and on teaching marketing at the postgraduate level.

The role is initially offered on a fixed-term basis of 12 months.

Applications should include

• A cover letter; 
• A curriculum vitae; 
• A statement of teaching philosophy (including how you integrate AI as well as corporate partners into your teaching) 
• Teaching evaluations from the past two years (if applicable); 
• A list of references (up to 5 referees).

Please submit your application by 30 September 2026. Any HR-related questions can be submitted to ukhr@escp.eu

For further information regarding the role itself, please contact Prof. Hsin-Hsuan Lee, Head of Faculty, ESCP Business School, London, UK, hlee@escp.eu

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