Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (Teaching Focus) in International Business and Strategy
| Posting date: | 07 October 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £49,979 to £70,058 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 November 2025 |
| Location: | Egham, Surrey |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Royal Holloway University of London |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 1025-248 |
Summary
Full-Time, Fixed-Term Maternity Cover for 12 months
Available as either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer.
Lecturer Salary is £49,979 to £59,125 per annum (including London Allowance)
Senior Lecturer Salary is £60,815 to £70,058 per annum (including London Allowance)
As an AACSB accredited Business School, we are driven by social purpose, committed to inspiring and empowering students and staff to realise their full potential and to make positive change. Inspired by the history and values of Royal Holloway, University of London, as a leader for progressive education, we embed issues of ethics, sustainability, and inclusion as core parts of our distinctive offering.
This is an exciting time to join us as we are looking to build on our current successes, our heritage, and our strategic location, to become a leading School nationally and globally by investing in all areas of activity. We offer programmes at the Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels, both nationally, from our Surrey (Egham) and Central London (Bloomsbury) Campuses, and internationally, through our global partnerships with the University of London. We aim to provide an outstanding student experience, the skills needed to join leading organisations or set up new businesses. Additionally, we are developing an ambitious portfolio of post experience programmes.
Our research is challenge-led and world leading. The 2021 Research Excellence framework indicated 82% of our research to be 'world-leading or internationally excellent', placing us at the top quartile in terms of outputs in the UK. Our research, which is led by three Research Centres, aims to deliver impact and be externally funded.
The Candidate
The Department of Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship (SIBE) seeks to recruit an outstanding teaching focussed Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Strategy and International Business. The advertised post offers an exciting opportunity to make a major contribution to our current suite of accredited programmes.
The successful candidate will contribute to both teaching and scholarship, to the administration of the Department/School and to developing opportunities for innovative teaching practice. The Department delivers high-quality, innovative teaching and the successful applicant will share our vision for preparing students for the world of work as they encounter a changing digital environment and new business and societal challenges.
We are committed to multidisciplinary, challenge-led teaching that engages with contemporary debates in policy, business and society. Whilst we welcome applications from all areas of the discipline, we are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate expertise in strategy and international business. The School is strongly committed to the development of all its staff and we will ensure that the successful candidate has the opportunity to develop their teaching and management skills.
In return we offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including:
Generous annual leave entitlement
Training and Development opportunities
Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution
Various schemes including Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loans and help with the cost of Eyesight testing.
Free parking
The post is based in Egham, Surrey where the College is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park, but you will be required to undertake some work at other locations including at our Central London Campus and abroad.
This is a fixed term post to cover a period of maternity leave for 12 months. This appointment could end earlier than expected should the substantive post-holder return to work early.
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Professor Thomas Wainwright Head of Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and International Business thomas.wainwright@rhul.ac.uk
For queries on the application process the Human Resources Department can be contacted by email at: recruitment@rhul.ac.uk
Please quote the reference: 1025-248
Closing Date: 23:59, 6 November 2025
Interview Date: To be confirmed
Available as either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer.
Lecturer Salary is £49,979 to £59,125 per annum (including London Allowance)
Senior Lecturer Salary is £60,815 to £70,058 per annum (including London Allowance)
As an AACSB accredited Business School, we are driven by social purpose, committed to inspiring and empowering students and staff to realise their full potential and to make positive change. Inspired by the history and values of Royal Holloway, University of London, as a leader for progressive education, we embed issues of ethics, sustainability, and inclusion as core parts of our distinctive offering.
This is an exciting time to join us as we are looking to build on our current successes, our heritage, and our strategic location, to become a leading School nationally and globally by investing in all areas of activity. We offer programmes at the Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels, both nationally, from our Surrey (Egham) and Central London (Bloomsbury) Campuses, and internationally, through our global partnerships with the University of London. We aim to provide an outstanding student experience, the skills needed to join leading organisations or set up new businesses. Additionally, we are developing an ambitious portfolio of post experience programmes.
Our research is challenge-led and world leading. The 2021 Research Excellence framework indicated 82% of our research to be 'world-leading or internationally excellent', placing us at the top quartile in terms of outputs in the UK. Our research, which is led by three Research Centres, aims to deliver impact and be externally funded.
The Candidate
The Department of Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship (SIBE) seeks to recruit an outstanding teaching focussed Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Strategy and International Business. The advertised post offers an exciting opportunity to make a major contribution to our current suite of accredited programmes.
The successful candidate will contribute to both teaching and scholarship, to the administration of the Department/School and to developing opportunities for innovative teaching practice. The Department delivers high-quality, innovative teaching and the successful applicant will share our vision for preparing students for the world of work as they encounter a changing digital environment and new business and societal challenges.
We are committed to multidisciplinary, challenge-led teaching that engages with contemporary debates in policy, business and society. Whilst we welcome applications from all areas of the discipline, we are particularly interested in candidates who can demonstrate expertise in strategy and international business. The School is strongly committed to the development of all its staff and we will ensure that the successful candidate has the opportunity to develop their teaching and management skills.
In return we offer a highly competitive rewards and benefits package including:
Generous annual leave entitlement
Training and Development opportunities
Pension Scheme with generous employer contribution
Various schemes including Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loans and help with the cost of Eyesight testing.
Free parking
The post is based in Egham, Surrey where the College is situated in a beautiful, leafy campus near to Windsor Great Park, but you will be required to undertake some work at other locations including at our Central London Campus and abroad.
This is a fixed term post to cover a period of maternity leave for 12 months. This appointment could end earlier than expected should the substantive post-holder return to work early.
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Professor Thomas Wainwright Head of Department of Strategy, Entrepreneurship and International Business thomas.wainwright@rhul.ac.uk
For queries on the application process the Human Resources Department can be contacted by email at: recruitment@rhul.ac.uk
Please quote the reference: 1025-248
Closing Date: 23:59, 6 November 2025
Interview Date: To be confirmed
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