Saïd Business School has a 20-year tradition of research, teaching and engagement in scenarios and foresight.  The executive Oxford Scenarios Programme (OSP) has won a British Academy of Management Education Practice Award, and its faculty have published and engaged widely. Recently, the Oxford-Hyundai Motor Group Foresight Centre has been established focusing on contributing significant new research to the scholarly understanding of how foresight is conducted to inform business strategy, while also producing impactful outputs for practitioners.

 

Scenarios and foresight are part of the School’s Strategy group based in the Strategy, Innovation and Marketing (SIM) Academic Area. The group examines strategy through a wide lens, exploring the processes, practices, and people associated with organisational strategy. The group is interdisciplinary – grounded in sociology, psychology, economics, cognitive science, and political science, as well as the arts and the humanities. Members regularly publish in top-tier journals and take leadership positions within the discipline internationally.

 

 

Saïd Business School wishes to appoint a leading management practice faculty member in the field of Strategy focusing on scenarios and foresight. The position is available from 1 January 2026 or at a different date by negotiation.

 

The post holder will have an international standing and reputation in their field that will enhance the Division’s reputation for excellence in teaching, public engagement and research. They will have a range of published outputs recognised as world-leading in the context of professional practice and a demonstrable ability to teach effectively across a broad range of programmes particularly in executive education programmes for senior leaders from business and government.

 

Responsibilities
- To design and carry out strategy-related teaching, focusing primarily on scenarios and foresight, on all 
types of programmes run by the School, particularly within executive education, by delivering courses 
throughout the year.
- To engage in strategy-related (primarily but not necessarily strictly limited to scenarios and foresight)
practitioner-oriented research. This will include publishing articles in top practitioner-orientated and 
academic journals, as well as the publication of scholarly and practice-orientated books.
- To engage in external engagement activities that will contribute to the generation of tangible, relevant, 
and measurable impact derived from research and teaching activities.
- To lead the design and development of executive education programmes in strategy, with a main focus 
on programmes involving scenarios and foresight, understanding client needs and objectives, creating 
innovative and appropriate programme architectures, and selecting and briefing appropriate teaching 
faculty. This will also include developing and managing a network of relationships within existing and 
prospective clients, working with the School’s Executive Education and Corporate Relations teams as 
appropriate.
- To take the role of Academic and/or Programme Director in the delivery of assigned executive education 
programmes, which includes setting and managing participant expectations, positioning each 
programme session and its objectives within the overall design, and reviewing evaluations and planning 
continuous improvement.

- To have on-going liaison with participants and host organisations for the assigned programmes, 
monitoring the impact of the programme and opportunities for appropriate follow-up.
- To build upon and develop the Oxford approach to scenarios and foresight.
- To contribute to the life and work of the Oxford-Hyundai Motor Group Foresight Centre.

 

The post-holder ultimately will be responsible to the Peter Moores Dean and Deputy Dean (Faculty and 
Research) at the Saïd Business School.