Asst or Assoc Prof of Business Admin - Sales & Marketing

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities • Bemidji, MN

7d • $64,963 - $188,620

About The Position

Bemidji State University (BSU) invites qualified applicants to join our team as an Assistant or Associate Professor of Business Administration – Sales & Marketing. Help launch our new Professional Selling Lab that will power student participation in sales competitions, conferences, and industry engagement for years to come. You’ll shape facility capabilities, experiential pedagogy, and partner programming that mirror leading sales centers nationally. Delivering courses across Professional Selling (e.g., Professional Selling, Sales Management, Advance Professional Selling, Sales Simulator Lab) and Marketing. Our modalities include in-person, HyFlex, and online to reach diverse learners. Leading and coaching students for national sales and marketing competitions; collaborating with employers on live projects; and growing pipelines for internships and full-time roles. Pursuing scholarly work in Professional Selling/Marketing and translating insights to practice via corporate partnerships and the lab.

Requirements

• PhD/DBA in Marketing, Business Administration, or a closely related field with a Sales/Professional Selling emphasis, from a regionally accredited institution, earned by August 1, 2026.
• Evidence of effective teaching or strong potential in Professional Selling and Marketing.
• Ability to teach in multiple modalities (in-person, HyFlex, online) or willingness to develop those skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to serving diverse student populations and fostering inclusive learning.
• Ability to build industry relationships that support curriculum currency, student opportunities, and the Sales Lab launch.

Nice To Haves

• PhD/DBA in Marketing (sales/relationship marketing focus) at time of application.
• Recent or emerging scholarly and/or professional engagement in Sales/Marketing consistent with IACBE expectations; evidence of an active scholarly agenda (e.g., peer-reviewed or practitioner publications, applied industry projects, pedagogical scholarship, and/or conference presentations).
• Demonstrated excellence teaching core sales and marketing courses.
• Experience coaching student teams for sales/marketing competitions and partnering with industry on live projects.
• Experience designing/operationalizing a sales lab, role-play capture, CRM/sales-tech stack (e.g., Salesforce, HubSpot), and rubrics aligned to employer expectations.
• Contributions to accreditation/assurance of learning and program assessment.
• Interdisciplinary collaboration across disciplines.
• Documented experience advising student clubs/organizations and facilitating their programming or competition participation.
• Evidence of successful grant development (e.g., co-PI/team member on funded proposals) and/or experience managing components of grants or endowed funds in an academic unit.
• A demonstrated commitment to the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism.

Responsibilities

• Teaching Professional Selling courses (e.g., Professional Selling, Sales Management, Advance Professional Selling, Sales Simulator Lab) and complementary Marketing and/or Business Administration courses based on expertise and program needs.
• Effectively teaching across modalities (e.g., in-person, HyFlex, online) and maintaining strong student outcomes.
• Contributing to continuous improvement and International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE)-aligned assurance of learning.
• Co-leading the build-out and launching of the Professional Selling Lab (e.g., technology, role-play capture, CRM/sales tools) and helping develop lab-based curriculum, role-playing rubrics, and corporate partner programming modeled on best-in-class sales centers.
• Pursuing external funding in collaboration with the program and BSU Alumni & Foundation, including writing grant proposals and contributing to the stewardship and basic management of awarded grants and the program endowment to support competitions, conferences, and student success.
• Advising, mentoring, and coaching Professional Selling and Marketing and Business Administration students.
• Growing employer partnerships, organizing guest speakers, hosting role-playing/ride-along experiences, and coaching competition teams (sales/marketing).
• Advising and energizing student organizations such as the AMA Collegiate Chapter/Sales Club, including programming, outreach, and competition preparation, in partnership with colleagues and employer partners.
• Maintaining a program of scholarly research in Sales/Marketing consistent with IACBE expectations.
• Providing service to the program, School of Business, university, and the profession, including collaboration with industry partners and alumni networks.
• Contributing to the effective stewardship of program funds by partnering on basic endowment administration activities (e.g., aligning expenditures to donor intent, documenting impact for annual reports) and by engaging with the BSU Alumni & Foundation and employers to sustain external support.

Benefits

• Our generous benefits include 11 paid Holidays, Vacation Time, Sick Time, six weeks of Paid Parental Leave, low cost medical and dental insurance with low deductibles ($250 - $1500), a Pension Plan, 457(b) and 403(b) retirement plans and other retirement investment options, pre-tax medical and dental expense (with roll-over option) and dependent care accounts, employer paid life insurance, short and long term disability, as well as professional development and a tuition waiver program for employees and their dependents, etc.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees