Open Rank Professor of Marketing (Non-Tenure Track) — Analytics, AI & the Future of Work

Merrimack College is a selective, private college in a beautiful,
residential setting — just minutes from Boston,
Massachusetts.Position Overview:
The Girard School of
Business at Merrimack College invites applications for a full-time,
open-rank, Non-Tenure Track (NTT) faculty position in Marketing
beginning in Fall 2027.

The Girard School is seeking a faculty member who can help build a
distinctive model of business education and applied scholarship at
the intersection of marketing, analytics, artificial intelligence,
technology, and the future of work. We are particularly interested
in candidates who combine meaningful professional or industry
experience with a strong commitment to teaching, scholarship, and
external engagement.

This position is part of a broader strategic investment in faculty,
research, experiential learning, and industry engagement within the
Girard School. The successful candidate will have an opportunity to
play a formative role in the development of the School’s emerging
Center for the Future of Work, an interdisciplinary research and
engagement platform focused on understanding how technological,
economic, demographic, and other forces are reshaping work and
organizations.

Located in the Merrimack Valley, the School is particularly
interested in leveraging the region’s concentration of companies,
industries, communities, and organizations as a setting for applied
inquiry and partnership, while building relationships that extend
nationally and globally.

The Center will seek to bridge academic inquiry and industry
practice by working directly with organizations to identify
consequential challenges, conduct applied research, engage students
in real-world problem solving, and translate insights into
scholarship, teaching, and broader thought leadership. The Center’s
work will be complemented by Applied Industry Labs that bring
faculty, students, and industry partners together around real-world
organizational and industry challenges.

Responsibilities

• Teach undergraduate and graduate Marketing courses consistent

with the candidate’s expertise and the needs of the Girard School,
including courses related to marketing analytics and/or emerging
technologies;

• Maintain an active program of applied scholarship and thought

leadership focused on consequential problems facing organizations
and industries. Relevant outputs may include applied research,
white papers, industry reports, case studies, conference
presentations, practitioner publications, and other work that
advances knowledge and informs practice; ;

• Develop relationships with companies and other external

organizations that can support research, experiential learning, and
student engagement;

• Translate industry challenges and organizational data into

opportunities for faculty research, student projects, cases,
simulations, and other forms of applied learning;

• Contribute to the development of the Center for the Future of

Work, related Applied Industry Labs, and the Girard School’s
broader capabilities in analytics and data-informed
decision-making;

• Mentor undergraduate and graduate students and engage students

meaningfully in research and applied projects;

• Contribute to the intellectual life, service, and strategic

development of the Girard School and Merrimack College.

Qualifications
We are especially interested in
candidates who are comfortable operating across academic and
industry environments—individuals who can engage executives and
organizational leaders, identify important questions emerging from
practice, study those questions rigorously, and bring the resulting
insights into the classroom and scholarly community.

The Girard School welcomes candidates whose careers have crossed
traditional boundaries between industry and academia, including
accomplished executives and senior practitioners who have developed
or are developing a substantive scholarly and teaching
agenda.

Relevant areas of scholarly and professional interest may include,
but are not limited to:

• marketing analytics and data-driven decision-making;
• artificial intelligence and marketing;
• consumer analytics and customer insights;
• digital marketing and emerging technologies;
• marketing technology and automation;
• customer experience and personalization;
• AI-enabled communication and content creation;
• human-AI collaboration in marketing decision-making;
• responsible use of AI, data, and algorithms in markets;

and

• the changing role and skills of marketing professionals.

Candidates need not specialize in all—or any particular
combination—of these areas. Of greater importance is an
intellectual agenda that addresses consequential problems facing
contemporary organizations and lends itself to meaningful
engagement with industry.

Required Qualifications

• A doctorate or appropriate terminal degree in Marketing,

Business Administration, Analytics, or a closely related field by
the time of appointment.

• Demonstrated ability or strong potential to teach effectively

at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

• Evidence of an active or emerging scholarly agenda, appropriate

to the candidate’s career stage, with interest in producing applied
scholarship that addresses consequential organizational, market, or
industry challenges.

• Demonstrated interest in engaging organizations and translating

real-world challenges into scholarship and/or student
learning.

Preferred Qualifications

• Significant professional or industry experience in marketing,

analytics, consumer insights, technology, consulting, digital
strategy, or related areas.

• Experience applying analytics, artificial intelligence, or

marketing technologies to organizational problems and
decision-making.

• A record of applied research, thought leadership, industry

presentations, or other work that bridges scholarship and
practice.

• Experience developing relationships across industry, academia,

or regional economic ecosystems.

• Interest in building new programs, research initiatives,

partnerships, or experiential-learning models.

• Evidence of the ability to engage students from varied academic

and professional backgrounds.

Application Materials Should Include:

• Curriculum vitae
• Cover letter stating motivation and interest in the position,

citing experience relevant to the qualifications and experience
associated with key responsibilities for the position including
teaching philosophy and evaluations.

• Contact information for three professional references (name,

title, address, phone number, email address). References will be
contacted only at a later stage of the search process.

Compensation
The expected 9-month base salary range
for the Assistant Professor or Assistant Professor of Practice rank
is $80,000-$110,000; for the Associate Professor or Associate
Professor of Practice $110,000,000-$130,000; for the Professor or
Professor of Practice $130,000-$150,000. The actual pay offered to
the selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as,
but not limited to, candidate qualifications and prior experience,
scope of responsibilities, internal equity, and market
considerations.

Work Location
This is an on-campus position as
employees are essential in order to provide a fully on-campus,
residential college experience for our students and the
community.

This position is subject to the successful completion of a criminal
background check.

Statement on Our Mission
Merrimack College is a
Catholic Augustinian institution of higher education committed to
building an accepting and respectful community. Our mission is to
enlighten minds, engage hearts and empower lives and is inspired by
our Catholic faith and the Augustinian tradition of seeking truth
through inquiry and dialogue.

Merrimack College seeks candidates who understand, respect, and can
contribute to Merrimack’s Catholic and Augustinian mission. All
candidates should describe in their application how they will
foster a culture that supports our mission.

About Merrimack College
The only Catholic, Augustinian
institution of higher education in New England, Merrimack College
is a private, independent, coeducational institution with more than
4,100 undergraduate, 2,500 graduate students and 50 doctoral
students from 48 states and 63 countries. The College features more
than 160 career-focused undergraduate, professional and graduate
programs, all taught by exceptional faculty who are passionate
about their subject and student success. The College has six
schools: arts and sciences, engineering and computational sciences,
nursing and health sciences, education and social policy, the
Girard school of business and the graduate school of counseling and
social work. The College’s suburban 220-acre campus is just north
of Boston in North Andover, Massachusetts. Merrimack is a Master’s
Colleges and Universities/Larger Programs (M1) institution in the
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.
Merrimack is one of the fastest growing educational institutions in
the country and has steadily climbed up in the U.S. News &
World Report’s ranking of Best Colleges, ranking 38th in the
Regional Universities North category in 2026. Merrimack is a NCAA
Division I athletic institution.

Merrimack College is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Salary Range: $80,000

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