Professional Sales Lecturer

Professional Sales Lecturer

Central Michigan University is dedicated to fostering an environment that is reflective of the communities we serve. We are especially interested in highly qualified candidates who will advance and promote CMU's mission, vision, and leadership standards. You must submit an online application in order to be considered as an applicant for this position. Letters of interest may be addressed to the Hiring Committee.

Posting Number - F-1046

Position Title
- Professional Sales Lecturer

College/Unit
- College of Business Administration

Home Department
- Department of Marketing, Hospitality, and Logistics

Employee Group
- Fixed-Term Faculty
- Academic Year

Employment Status
- Full-Time

Position Type - 10 month

Position Classification
- Fixed-Term Faculty

Position Begin Date - 08/24/2026

Position Summary
- Primary responsibilities include teaching courses in professional sales and marketing at the undergraduate level. Additional duties include promoting the professional sales program on and off campus, advising student organizations, cultivation of industry connections, coaching students in sales competitions, managing program information and databases (e.g., scholarship recipients, internship experiences, graduation statistics, placement figures, contacts, program review information), and monitoring, analyzing, and reporting program metrics.

Required Qualifications
- Master's degree in business or a related field. At least 5 years of industry experience in sales.

Preferred Qualifications
- Teaching experience at the college level, preferably in professional sales or marketing. Experience with online education tools (e.g., Blackboard). Experience using sales-related technology. Experience coaching students in sales competitions. Experience advising student organizations.

Message to Applicants
- Central Michigan University is dedicated to fostering an environment that is reflective of the communities we serve. We are especially interested in highly qualified candidates who will advance and promote CMU's mission, vision, and leadership standards. You must submit an online application in order to be considered as an applicant for this position. Letters of interest may be addressed to the Hiring Committee.

About the Department
- The Department of Marketing, Hospitality, and Logistics has 12 full-time faculty and offers majors in Marketing, Logistics, and Hospitality. The nationally ranked Professional Sales program has 3 full-time faculty and over 70 students.

Posting Begins - 06/18/2026

Open Until Filled
- Yes

Type of Recruitment
- External

About CMU
- Central Michigan University has a more than 125-year legacy of preparing students to become leaders and changemakers in their communities and in their personal and professional lives. We serve nearly 15,500 students on our Mount Pleasant campus, in satellite locations around the state and throughout the country, and through flexible online programs. Many of our approximately 300 undergraduate, master's, specialist and doctoral programs in the arts, media, business, education, human services, health professions, liberal arts, social sciences, medicine, science and engineering are nationally ranked for excellence.

CMU leads the nation in leadership development programming through our Sarah R. Opperman Leadership Institute, and we are proud to be among only 5% of U.S. universities in the top two Carnegie research classifications. Our faculty work with graduate and undergraduate students in areas such as Great Lakes research, medical innovation, engineering technology and more. Central is home to 17 men's and women's Division 1 sports including football, basketball, gymnastics, baseball, wrestling and more.

Our student-athletes achieve great success in competition and in the classroom, capturing Mid-American Conference championships and maintaining an average cumulative GPA of 3.17. CMU is located in Mount Pleasant, a community that blends the best of small-town living with big-city amenities. It's part of the culturally varied and vibrant Great Lakes Bay Region that also includes Saginaw, Bay City, Midland and the state's largest Native…