Postdoc in a collaboration between the KTH schools EECS and ITM - Hiring in process/Finished, not possible to apply

Job description

This postdoc position is focused on project organizing and leadership due to business development based on digitization and data-driven streamlining. The position is a result of collaboration between the division of Management and Technology at the department of Industrial Economics and Management (Indek, ITM School) and the division for Network and Systems Engineering at the department of Computer Engineering (EECS school). This position will be allocated 40% to Indek and 60% to the division for Network and Systems Engineering.

During the equivalent of 3 days a week of working hours, you will belong to the Network and Systems Engineering (NSE) division where you will be involved in maintaining the division's research expertise in the area of digitization opportunities in the event of changes in industrial organizations. Many industrial companies struggle with their organizational ability to be digitally ambidextrous, i.e., to cope with both their long-term management missions and to be more exploratory and innovative. In projects, it has today led to many companies undergoing an agile transformation. In line with increased digital elements in products and services, the requirements for agile business development are increasing, partly to be able to achieve the goals set up, and partly to be able to attract competencies with digital competence. Within the framework of this post-doc position, you will be responsible for external research collaboration and thus it is important that applicants have an extensive and established network with both research funders and established project management researchers.

During the equivalent of 2 days a week of working hours, you will belong to the Management and Technology (MEY) unit, where you will be involved in maintaining the department's research expertise in the field of management and control of industrial projects as well as organizational complexity in the business development of agile organizations. The tasks will therefore focus on the publication of articles in international peer-reviewed journals about this, but also teaching in the unit's courses focused on change projects in industrial management (ME2016, ME2502, ME2163) and supervision of degree projects in the field (ME200X).

What we offer

• A position at a leading technical university that generates knowledge and skills for a sustainable future
• Engaged and ambitious colleagues along with a creative, international and dynamic working environment
• Works in Stockholm, in close proximity to nature
• Help to relocate and be settled in Sweden and at KTH

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Qualifications

Requirements

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, This eligibility requirement must be met no later than the time the employment decision is made.

• To qualify for the position, you have a PhD in Industrial Management and Management and a Master of Science degree.

• In addition, practical experience of industrial agile project management with a focus on the development of digital services is needed, as this postdoc position will contribute to research within two different established research environments at KTH.

• The position requires that you have good oral and written communication skills in English as you are expected to teach in english.

• Knowledge of the research process and experience of business development in practice
  
  

Preferred qualifications

• A doctoral degree or an equivalent foreign degree, obtained within the last three years prior to the application deadline
• Teaching experience both as a lecturer, seminar leader and thesis supervisor with a special focus on industrial business management and industrial project management.
• Research expertise
• Teaching abilities
• Awareness of diversity and equal opportunity issues, with specific focus on gender equality
• Collaborative abilities
• Independence
• Extensive experience in running digitization projects
• Structured and good at time management
• Communicative
• Attentive
• Pedagogically engaged
• Open and interested

Great emphasis will be placed on personal competency

Trade union representatives

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Application

Log into KTH's recruitment system in order to apply to this position. You are the main responsible to ensure that your application is complete according to the ad.

The application must include:

• CV including relevant professional experience and knowledge.
• Copy of diplomas and grades from your previous university studies. Translations into English or Swedish if the original documents have not been issued in any of these languages.
• Brief account of why you want to conduct research, your academic interests and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals. Max two pages long.

Your complete application must be received at KTH no later than the last day of application, midnight CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

About the employment

The position offered is for, at the most, three years.

A position as a postdoctoral fellow is a time-limited qualified appointment focusing mainly on research, intended as a first career step after a dissertation.

Others

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