Master in Business Management

Five master programmes with Profession Focus are available. They are offered either entirely in English 5 (E) or bilingual English/French (E/F). They rely on the school's centres of excellence or on specific professional fields.   - Supply Chain Management (E) - Financial Engineering (E) - Performance Management and Control (E) - Intrapreneurship (E/F) - Creative projects (F) Supply Chain Management (E) The Master with Professional Focus in Supply Chain Management is geared toward students who are looking to gain insight into the management processes that companies and organisations have implemented in order to optimise the production of goods and services.

A series of high-level courses allows you to develop in-depth knowledge of : production planning methods, inventory management, transportation and distribution management, decision support techniques, quality management, corporate strategy, environmental issues, e-commerce...

You will also acquire a solid background on a variety of processes that are related to production and logistics, including cost accounting, financial consolidation and information systems.

Prospects

The type of skills developed as a part of this specialised master are in high demand. Moreover, the economy will only become more and more global in the future. This programme can lead to branches and positions such as :

• operation and logistic director :
  - in service activities, the public sector, associations and international organisations : planning of human resources
    needs, schedule and inventory management, hospital management, purchases and quality management for hotel
    chains, the tourism sector or airlines
  - in industrial companies and service companies that face complex situations in terms of production and logistics
  - in manufacturing companies : delivery management, production and inventory management, logistics management
    warehousing, client and supplier coordination, etc.; in the industries of steel, chemistry and petrochemistry,
    cosmetics, agri-food, pharmaceuticals, plastics, automobile, etc.
  - in financial institutions and insurance companies, etc.
• operations management for logistics service providers such as 3PL and 4PL partners (3rd and 4th level logistics partners), road transport companies, express transport companies, port and rail authorities, airports and airlines, etc.
• consultant, researcher or "systems specialist" for providers of IT solutions such as ERP (enterprise resource planning) software, or warehouse, fleet or route management systems, etc.
• researcher or analyst in consultancy firms, in administrations and organisations at the regional, national or international level, or in private or university research centres, etc.

Financial Engineering (E)

This master programme's goal is to train specialists who can model financial instruments and markets. It will provide you with methodological and quantitative tools that will enable you to take an active part in the creation, management and monitoring of financial products and services with a high scientific and technical value. An especial focus is put on mastering concepts and techniques, and on how to use them in an innovating context. This specialisation is aimed towards students who are interested in highly-specialised activities in the finance industry and who wish to reinforce their knowledge through additional training programmes in mathematical finance or actuaries.

Prospects

This master programme enables you, among other activities, to work in quantitative departments within financial institutions, in risk management, in technical departments within insurance companies or pension funds, and to perform structuring activities within trading floors and investment fund, including hedge funds.

You can therefore access positions such as :

- asset management (mutual fund/pension fund/hedge fund management), specialised in portfolio construction
- activities related to risk modelling and management (derivatives, liquidity, credit, operationals) in the finance industry
- investment banking activities related to preparing and operationalising complex strategies for the creation, evaluation and
  exchange of financial instruments, including in the context of mergers and acquisitions

Performance Management and Control (E) The Master in Business Engineering with a professional focus on Performance Management and Control aims at training future executives and leaders of companies or non-profit organisations (associations, public corporations...) wishing to specialise in jobs related to internal control and audit, as well as management audit. More generally, you will be able to manage companies' performance, or will even have to optimise it. With your encompassing vision of the various professions and functions that exist within companies, you will master internal and external accouting techniques, as well as the financial, auditing and legal techniques that are necessary to a proper comprehension of the human resources and the financial and immaterial responsibilities that you were entrusted with. You will also master the main models of performance management and internal risk control (EFQM, SOX, ERM...) in theory as well as practice. You will aslo be able to assess how these techniques evolve with regards to legal, regulatory and ethical restrictions that result from the competitive, strategic and economic context in which organisations exist. Finally, you will be able to draft, analyse and guide the procedures, processes and mechanisms used to pilot and control, in the medium and long term, the performance of an organisation as well as the operational risks that it faces.

Prospects

This programme can lead to a variety of positions :

- in financial management : manager of financial director of "Business Units", treasury manager, budget manager, planning
  and budgeting manager, bank relations manager, financial analyst
- in performance management : management auditor, internal inspector, internal auditor, internal process auditor, internal
  financial analyst, resource manager (public companies)

Later on, this path quickly leads to leadership positions within companies or organisation of any type, to the takeover of existing companies, or to administrative positions, either independently or as a part of a board of directors.

Intrapreneurship (E/F)

This programme is focused on leading complex projects in a corporate context, i.e. strategic projects and multifaceted projects in a wide variety of fields (finance, information systems, human resources, marketing, supply chain...). Based on an inductive approach and on problem-based learning, it includes a full year of dual training (courses and internship) in order to better link academic and professional requirements. The programme's objectives are : - To develop a specific subject within a complex project (course content) - To use diagnostic tools related to the project's field (organisational auditing, information   system auditing, financial auditing, marketing auditing, etc.) - To discover and implement tools related to the process (project management, managing   the human aspects of change) - To complete a real-world project while developing skills related to personal growth :   initiative, team spirit, personal development, etc.

Creative projects (F)

Master programme with Pluridisciplinary Professional Focus in creative Projects

The specialisation, offered in no other French-speaking Belgian university and based on the ID-Campus project, is offered through the ULg's various masters since September, 2012.

Creativity, at the heart of revival in our societies

Creativity has now become an essential means to meet the challenges of a world that is ever more volatile, evolving and uncertain. For an organisation, the ability to overcome obstacles, react to market changes and seize opportunities results in the adoption of a generally innovative perspective (products, services, business models, processes).

Enabling a creative state of mind

All people have creative abilities : the creative process can be taught and developed. Beyond individual creativity, there is also the question of group creativity and how to manage such groups.

Pluridisciplinarity, a fertile ground for creativity

These challenges also require teamwork or the successful completion of a project based on the interaction of people with different skills and levels of experience.

Programme

For you, this focus involves a post-master : you must hold a master's degree in Management, Business Management or Economics in order to qualify for this programme. Its three components are as follows :

• one common programme students of all branches, aiming at teaching skills related to the management of creative projects
• projects split into three phases
• optional classes chosen among a pool of classes offered by all faculties or partner higher schools

Upon registering, you also choose two subjects among five offered, ensuring that you work on projects whose components are strongly related to your two subjects of choice.

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