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With over 15,000 students and 1,000 lecturers, researchers and employees in the heart of Frankfurt am Main, we are one of the largest universities of applied sciences in Germany. Our mission is to support students on their path to becoming responsible shapers of the future. We align our actions with our strategic guiding principles of practical relevance, interdisciplinarity, internationality, sustainability, digitalization and social responsibility. Through excellent teaching and research, we make a decisive contribution to the economy, politics and society in the region and beyond. Together with our partners in the U!REKA University Alliance, we form a European university.

The following permanent position is to be filled at our Faculty 3 Business and Law at the earliest possible date:

Professorship "General Business Administration, in particular Logistics and Production Management" (f/m/d) (Grade W2 HBesG)
(Reference number: P03/2025)

Are you passionate about production or logistics and would you like to combine this with modern business management know-how? At our university, you can not only pass on your specialist knowledge to our motivated students, but also actively conduct research: as part of our Mobility and Logistics Doctoral Center or, depending on your inclination, in two of the most renowned relevant research institutions: ReLUT for the field of urban and rural logistics or IAT for the field of air freight. But we are also happy to work across disciplines. Because that is our way of researching sustainable and efficient solutions for a global economy.

Your tasks

• You will contribute your theoretical and practical experience in production and logistics to the basic courses of our Bachelor's and Master's degree programs in German and English.
• You are available for your students and supervise them in their project, Bachelor's and Master's theses - preferably in cooperation with companies from your practical network.
• With your commitment to applied and interdisciplinary research, you will play an active role in shaping the future of your field.
• In the future, you will take over the management of a degree program and thus promote the further development of the department and support us in further expanding the internationality of our university.

Your profile:

• You have a university degree in business administration, logistics, production or a comparable subject - supplemented by a good or very good doctorate, ideally in the subject area.
• You have at least five years of professional experience, including at least three years in industry
• You are well positioned professionally and have extensive professional experience and a large practical network, which reflect your economic expertise in at least two of the following areas: production, logistics and commercial transportation.
• You have built up and further developed your teaching skills, for example through teaching assignments, experience in training or further teaching training.
• You are characterized by your team spirit and commitment as well as your enjoyment of international action and thinking and diversity-sensitive, interdisciplinary collaboration in teaching and research.

Please also submit a teaching and research concept that meets the requirements of the position with your application. We would be pleased if you could also explain how your main areas of activity fit in with our Doctoral Center Mobility and Logistics. Further information and what makes a professorship with us so exciting can be found at our professorship career page.
If you have any questions, please contact the Chairman of the Appointments Committee, Prof. Dr. Benjamin Bierwirth, by e-mail: benjamin.bierwirth@fb3.fra-uas.de.

Our offer

• Compatibility of family and career through self-determined work with a great deal of freedom in terms of content and time as well as our activities as part of the "audit family-friendly university" certificate
• structured onboarding by the department's "Professorship" service team and our university didactics week
• Internationally oriented environment to carry out joint teaching and research projects
• Support in the preparation of your national and international research proposals by our "Research and Transfer" department
• Free state ticket for Hesse and good transport connections (public transport, underground parking), bicycle friendliness (including bicycle parking spaces, service stations and service pedelecs)
• a lively campus in the heart of Europe with an extensive sports and events program (CampusSport, CampusKultur)

The position is available for an indefinite period. When first appointed to a professorship, employment is initially in a probationary civil servant relationship or in a permanent employment relationship with a three-year probationary period. Further employment requirements and duties are set out in Sections 67 - 69, 75 and 76 of the Hessian Higher Education Act (available at the Website of the ).

We are actively committed to equal opportunities, diversity and inclusion. We expressly welcome applications from people with a history of migration and attach great importance to family-friendly working hours. Persons with a severe disability or equivalent will be given preferential consideration if they have the same qualifications.

Have we convinced you? Then please send your application with all necessary informative documents (please see our ) by March 17, 2025, stating the reference number, by e-mail to info-prof@hr.fra-uas.de (please send all documents in one PDF file):

To the President of the
Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Personnel and personnel development
Nibelungenplatz 1, 60318 Frankfurt