Skills and Education Group Awards · RQF Level 3
ABC Level 3 Diploma In Multi-Channel Retail
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits37
- Units in this qualification27
Awarded by Skills and Education Group Awards · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Skills and Education Group Awards registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Analysing and presenting reports on sales, stock and profit performanceReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance and use of analyses of product sales, stock, and profit performance within their own organisation for performance monitoring and improvement
- Understand the factors to consider in analysing information regarding product sales, stock, and profit performance, including relevant metrics and data sources
- Undertake thorough analyses of product sales, stock, and profit performance using appropriate analytical tools and techniques
- Interpret and draw meaningful conclusions from analyses of product sales, stock, and profit performance to identify trends, patterns, and areas for improvement
Analysing customer behaviour on a trading websiteReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of web analytics towards achieving the commercial objectives of their own organisation and the associated factors to take into account
- Understand how to analyse customer behaviour on their own organisation’s trading website
- Undertake analyses of customer behaviour which address business priorities and needs
- Make recommendations that are persuasive and based upon effective analysis of customer behaviour
Analysing the feedback from customers of a multi-channel retail businessReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the retail journeys available to customers when shopping with their own organisation
- Understand how to undertake relevant analyses of customers’ feedback
- Understand how to develop, justify and present recommendations which contribute to realising their own organisation’s commercial objectives
- Analyse feedback regarding customers’ experience of shopping with their own organisation’s retail channels
- Make and report recommendations based upon their analysis of customers’ retail experiences with their own organisation
Checking the levels of retail stock available for saleReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of checking levels of stock within their own organisation
- Understand how to undertake checks on the levels and quality of stock within their area of retail operations
- Check the levels of stock available for sale within their own area of operations
Checking the storage and care of stock in a retail environmentReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legal and organisational requirements relating to checking the storage and care of stock in their retail environment
- Understand factors impacting upon storing and improving the storage of stock effectively within their area of operations
- Carry out checks upon the storage and care of stock within their area of operations
- Recommend improvements to the storage, care and movement of stock within their area of operations
Contribute to maintaining stock levels and to addressing problems with stockReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand organisational procedures for checking stock levels and for sorting out any problems with stock levels
- Count and record retail stock within their own area of operations
- Address problems with stock and stock levels in line with organisational procedures
Contributing to marketing and promotional campaigns for retail productsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of their organisation’s marketing strategy, including its objectives and target audience
- Understand the nature of their organisation’s associated promotional campaigns, relevant to the retail products within their own area of operations
- Understand how sales of the retail products within their own area of operations might respond to marketing campaigns
- Understand the factors to consider when evaluating the potential impact of marketing and promotional campaigns on retail product sales
- Provide advice and information towards developing marketing campaigns for retail products, based on an understanding of the target audience and market trends
- Provide advice and information towards developing promotional campaigns for retail products, considering factors such as budget and timing
Creating copy for a trading websiteReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legal and organisational requirements relevant to creating copy for their own organisation’s trading website
- Understand the factors to consider when creating copy for their own organisation’s trading website
- Create effective copy for their own organisation’s trading website
Forecasting product sales, stock and profit levelsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the factors to consider when forecasting product sales, stock, and profit levels within their own area of retail operations, including internal and external influences
- Understand how to make effective forecasts of product sales, stock, and profit levels using appropriate techniques and data
- Make accurate and realistic forecasts regarding product sales, stock, and profit levels, considering various scenarios
- Present forecasts clearly and concisely to inform decision-making processes within the organisation
Forecasting trends and developments impacting on range management and buyingReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of forecasting trends and developments impacting upon the range management and buying requirements within their own organisation
- Understand how to undertake effective forecasts of trends and developments
- Identify emerging trends and developments relevant to their retail operations using available information
- Make forecasts based upon emerging trends and developments
Maintaining a library of materials for use on a trading websiteReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legal and organisational requirements relating to maintaining a library of materials for use on their own organisation’s trading website
- Understand the classification of materials and how to manage the filing and retrieval of materials for use on their own organisation’s trading website
- Maintain a library which promotes ready access to materials for use on their own organisation’s trading website
- Make sure that the library of materials continues to fulfil colleagues’ requirements
Maintaining a social network as part of multi-channel retailReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legal, organisational, and related requirements in maintaining a social network as part of multi-channel retail
- Understand the factors to take into account when monitoring and moderating a social network on behalf of their own organisation
- Promote discussion within a social network on behalf of their own organisation
- Moderate a social network on behalf of their own organisation
- Involve colleagues in promoting discussion within a social network on behalf of their own organisation
Maintaining the confidentiality and security of data held online regarding retail customersReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legal and organisational requirements relating to the maintenance of online data confidentiality and security
- Understand the procedures to follow to maintain online data confidentiality and security
- Maintain the confidentiality and security of data regarding customers when recording and retaining online data
- Maintain the confidentiality and security of online data when sharing information with third parties in line with organisational requirements
Managing the supply of stock for retail saleReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand organisational requirements relating to managing the supply of stock within their area of operations
- Understand the information requirements relating to managing the supply of stock for retail sale
- Maintain supplies and levels of stock for retail sale
Negotiating with suppliers of merchandise for retail saleReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand organisational requirements relating to their negotiating with suppliers of merchandise within their own area of operations
- Understand the factors to consider when negotiating with suppliers of merchandise within their own area of operations
- Prepare for negotiations with suppliers of merchandise
- Negotiate on behalf of their own organisation with suppliers of merchandise for retail sale
Organising the production of photographs or videos for use on a trading websiteReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legal and organisational requirements relating to the production of photographs or videos for use on their own organisation’s trading website
- Understand the aims and purpose of the production of photographs or videos for use on their own organisation’s trading website
- Understand how to progress the production of photographs or videos for use on their own organisation’s trading website
- Prepare for the production of photographs or videos for use on their own organisation’s trading website
- Produce the required photographs or videos
Organising urgent changes to the content of a trading websiteReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legal and organisational requirements relevant to making changes to their own organisation’s trading website
- Understand the factors to consider when making urgent changes to the content of their own organisation’s trading website
- Progress urgent changes to the content of their own organisation’s trading website
Processing returns of retail productsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand their own organisation’s procedures for processing returned products
- Make sure that returns of retail products are processed correctly
- Analyse the reasons given by customers for returning products
Promoting particular retail products using web-based retail channelsReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the factors to be taken into account in planning to promote particular products
- Understand how to evaluate the outcomes from promotions of particular products
- Prepare for the promotion of particular products
- Implement and evaluate the promotional campaign
Providing support to individual customers of a trading websiteReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact and benefits of multi-channel retailing for their own organisation and the opportunities which it presents when providing support to individual customers shopping online
- Understand the factors to consider when communicating and providing support to individual customers shopping online
- Establish and address customers’ needs in ways which are consistent with organisational values and qualities
- Promote additional products to customers
Selecting visual assets for use on a trading websiteReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legal and organisational requirements relevant to selecting visual assets for use on their own organisation’s trading website
- Understand the factors to consider when selecting visual assets for use on their own organisation’s trading website
- Select visual assets which fulfil requirements
- Record and store visual assets in line with requirements
Specifying the content and layout of pages for a trading websiteReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand legal and organisational requirements relating to specifying the content and layout of pages for their own organisation’s trading website
- Understand the importance of content and layout in promoting customers’ use of their own organisation’s trading website
- Create specifications regarding the content and layout of pages for their own organisation’s trading website
- Communicate their specifications to colleagues
Updating product information on a trading websiteReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance to their own organisation of an up to date, compliant and readily-searchable trading website
- Understand how to access the information required to make sure that their own organisation’s trading website is up to date, accurate and addresses customer needs
- Understand organisational procedures for maintaining and updating product information on their organisation’s trading website
- Promote customers’ use of their own organisation’s trading website through effective content and by making information accessible readily
- Keep the trading website up t
Use digital technology for marketing purposesReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Use digital tools effectively for marketing purposes, selecting the most appropriate tools for the task
- Carry out marketing research using the internet, gathering relevant data and insights
- Create engaging and effective digital marketing devices and messages tailored to the target audience
- Use digital technology for social media marketing purposes, managing social media campaigns and engaging with customers
Working collaboratively to produce page layouts for a trading websiteReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of web-based retail facilities for the promotion of their own organisation’s products
- Understand the factors to consider when producing page layouts for their own organisation’s trading website
- Understand how to work collabouratively when producing page layouts for their own organisation’s trading website
- Produce effective page layouts for their own organisation’s trading website
- Utilise the relevant available expertise in producing page layouts
Working productively and effectively in a multi-channel retail businessReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of multi-channel retailing upon providing effective customer service and maintaining customer confidentiality
- Understand roles and responsibilities of retail teams in their own organisation’s multi-channel retail business
- Understand the employment rights and responsibilities of an employee and the employer
- Support productive and effective working within a retail team in their own organisation’s multi-channel retail business
- Improve their own work performance in their own retail team
Working with colleagues to encourage innovation in a multi-channel retail businessReal unit · Skills and Education Group Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of continuous innovation within multi-channel retailing in their own organisation
- Understand the factors to consider when encouraging innovation in their own organisation’s multi-channel retail business
- Promote innovation within their area of responsibility in a multi-channel retail business
- Support colleagues in the promotion of new ideas
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 3 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Analyse customer behaviour on a trading website
- Analyze Feedback from Customers of a Multi-channel Retail Business
- Contribution to Promotional and Marketing Campaigns for Retail Products
- Maintain a library of materials for use on a trading website
- Maintain a social network as part of multi-channel retail
- Organise the production of photographs or videos for use on a trading website
- Organise urgent changes to the content of a trading website
- Provide support to individual customers of a trading website
Where this can lead
Retail Operations Analyst
Your career here isn't a rigid ladder; it's more like a climbing wall with many different routes up. We're committed to helping you find the path that best suits your strengths and ambitions, whether that's leading teams, becoming a deep subject matter expert, or moving into a different part of the business.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 31 job records mapped to this qualification.
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will develop the ability to analyse and present reports on sales, stock, and profit performance within their organisation. The unit covers the use of relevant metrics, data accuracy, and analytical tools to inform decision-making and improve performance.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ABC Level 3 Diploma In Multi-Channel Retail
27 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Skills and Education Group Awards.
- Analysing and presenting reports on sales, stock and profit performance
- Analysing customer behaviour on a trading website
- Analysing the feedback from customers of a multi-channel retail business
- Checking the levels of retail stock available for sale
- Checking the storage and care of stock in a retail environment
- Contribute to maintaining stock levels and to addressing problems with stock
and 21 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
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