BIIAB · RQF Level 3
BIIAB Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Marketing
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits37
- Guided learning115 hours
- Units in this qualification42
Awarded by BIIAB · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
The BIIAB Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Marketing is an occupational qualification. It enables candidates to develop skills in areas such as collaborative technologies, spreadsheet software, and marketing promotion design. Individuals will also learn how to contribute to marketing strategy preparation, making it suitable for those in a marketing role with strategic responsibilities.
These are the units BIIAB 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.
Agree a budgetReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop budgets, considering financial information and organisational objectives
- Agree a budget with relevant stakeholders, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and resource availability
Analyse competitor activityReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Identify competitor activity in the marketplace, including their marketing strategies, product offerings, and pricing.
- Determine the nature of the threat posed by competitor activity to the organisation's market share and profitability.
Bespoke SoftwareReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Input information accurately into bespoke software applications.
- Combine different types of information effectively within bespoke applications.
- Use appropriate data structures within the bespoke software to organise information logically.
- Retrieve information efficiently from the bespoke software using appropriate search and filtering techniques.
- Use the functions of the bespoke software effectively to process information according to specific requirements.
- Use the functions of the bespoke software effectively to present information in a clear and professional manner.
Bespoke SoftwareReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Input and combine information effectively using bespoke software applications.
- Create and modify appropriate data structures within bespoke software to organise and retrieve information efficiently.
- Exploit the full range of functions available within the bespoke software to process and present information in a suitable format.
Chair meetingsReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of the chair in meetings, including responsibilities for facilitating discussion, managing time, and ensuring objectives are met.
- Prepare for chairing a meeting, including creating an agenda, gathering relevant information, and anticipating potential issues.
- Chair a meeting effectively, using interpersonal and organisational skills to encourage participation, manage conflict, and keep the meeting on track.
- Follow up and evaluate a meeting that has been chaired, including documenting outcomes, assigning action items, and assessing the meeting's effectiveness.
Co-ordinate an eventReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of an event co-ordinator in managing an event to meet the objectives of the brief
- Understand the activities required when co-ordinating an event
- Co-ordinate an event
Conduct market researchReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the need for market research, recognising situations where data collection and analysis are required to inform marketing decisions.
- Design market research projects, defining objectives, selecting appropriate methodologies, and developing data collection instruments.
- Manage market research data collection, ensuring data quality, adhering to ethical guidelines, and overseeing the process effectively.
Contribute to decision-making in a business environmentReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and process of decision-making within a business environment
- Understand how to prepare effectively to contribute to decision-making processes
- Understand how to contribute constructively to decision-making discussions and activities
- Prepare well-structured and relevant contributions to support decision-making
- Make effective contributions to decision-making processes within a business environment
Contribute to innovation in a business environmentReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of innovation within a business environment, including its strategic importance and potential benefits.
- Understand the benefits that innovation can bring to a business, such as increased efficiency, competitive advantage, and improved profitability.
- Understand how to contribute to research activities aimed at identifying opportunities for new approaches and solutions.
- Understand how to develop ideas for new approaches and solutions, considering feasibility, practicality, and potential impact.
- Understand how to review existing ideas and approaches, identifying areas for improvement and refinement.
- Understand how to present suggestions for new approaches and solutions in a clear, concise, and persuasive manner.
- Contribute to research activities by gathering information, analysing data, and identifying relevant trends.
- Develop ideas for new approaches and solutions, considering the needs of the business and the target audience.
- Present suggestions for new approaches and solutions to relevant stakeholders, using appropriate communication techniques.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of new approaches and solutions, identifying areas for improvement.
- Review the implementation of new approaches and solutions, ensuring that they are aligned with business objectives.
- Make suggestions for further improvements to new approaches and solutions, based on evaluation and review findings.
Contribute to running a projectReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to contribute to agreeing to a project brief
- Understand how to contribute to a project
- Understand the purpose of contributing to the evaluation of a project
- Contribute to preparing and planning a project
- Contribute to running a project
- Contribute to evaluating the outcomes of a project
Contribute to the development of a marketing planReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the development of a marketing plan, providing input and support to the planning process
- Understand the principles underpinning the development of marketing plans, including market analysis and target audience identification
Contribute to the development of new products and/or servicesReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Contribute to the assessment of marketing opportunities for new products and/or services, providing relevant information and insights
- Establish requirements for new products and/or services, considering market trends and customer needs
Contribute to the preparation of a marketing strategyReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Identify trends influencing the target market
- Analyse behaviour patterns within the target market
- Contribute to the development of a marketing strategy
Deliver a presentationReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of preparing for and evaluating a presentation, recognising the importance of audience engagement and achieving desired outcomes.
- Understand the techniques used in enhancing a presentation, including visual aids, storytelling, and interactive elements.
- Prepare for delivery of a presentation, structuring content, rehearsing delivery, and preparing supporting materials.
- Deliver a presentation effectively, engaging the audience, conveying key messages, and responding to questions.
- Evaluate a presentation, assessing its impact, identifying areas for improvement, and gathering feedback from the audience.
Design marketing promotionsReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the nature of the need for marketing promotions based on specific business objectives and target audiences
- Design effective marketing promotions that align with business objectives and appeal to the target audience
Develop a presentationReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of preparing a presentation
- Understand the purpose of evaluating a presentation
- Develop a presentation
Develop an advertising campaignReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Generate creative advertising options, exploring different concepts, media channels, and target audiences.
- Manage the implementation of advertising activities, coordinating resources, monitoring progress, and ensuring adherence to budget and timelines.
Develop working relationships with colleagues and stakeholdersReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Identify stakeholders relevant to an organisation and explain their relevance.
- Understand how to establish effective working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Create an environment of trust and mutual respect with colleagues and stakeholders.
Evaluate and improve own performance in a business environmentReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to evaluate and improve own performance
- Evaluate and improve own performance using feedback from others
- Use evaluation of own performance to agree, develop and use a learning plan
Evaluate market research dataReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the evaluation of market research data, taking into account the objectives and scope of the research
- Evaluate market research data using appropriate techniques and methods
- Report on the evaluation of market research data, presenting findings and recommendations clearly and concisely
Evaluate the effectiveness of a marketing planReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Plan the evaluation of marketing activities
- Evaluate the effectiveness of a marketing plan
Implement a marketing planReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare for the implementation of marketing plans, taking into account relevant factors and resources
- Implement marketing plans effectively, following established procedures and guidelines
Maintain a portfolio of products and/or servicesReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Develop and maintain a portfolio of products and/or services
- Understand the principles underpinning portfolio maintenance
Make decisions in a business environmentReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and process of decision-making within a business environment
- Understand how to prepare effectively to make informed decisions
- Understand how to make sound and justifiable decisions in a business context
- Understand how to assess the impact of decisions and their effects on the business
- Prepare comprehensive background information to support effective decision-making
- Make timely and appropriate decisions based on available information
- Assess contributions made by others to the decision-making process
Manage budgetsReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of budgets within an organisation
- Understand how to manage budgets effectively, including forecasting and resource allocation
- Understand how to report performance against budgets, identifying variances and recommending corrective actions
- Manage budgets in accordance with organisational policies and procedures
- Monitor budgets regularly, tracking income and expenditure and identifying potential issues
Manage outsourced marketing supplier relationshipsReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Plan work to be carried out by outsourced suppliers of marketing services, including defining scope, objectives, and timelines
- Monitor the performance of suppliers of outsourced marketing services against agreed-upon key performance indicators (KPIs) and service level agreements (SLAs)
Negotiate in a business environmentReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare for negotiations
- Understand how to conduct negotiations
- Understand how to complete negotiations
- Prepare for negotiation
- Conduct negotiations
- Complete negotiations
Plan and organise an eventReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of an event organiser in planning an event, including responsibilities for budgeting, logistics, and communication.
- Understand the arrangements to be made when planning and organising an event, such as venue booking, catering, and security.
- Understand the different types of venues and resources needed for different types of events, considering factors such as capacity, accessibility, and equipment.
- Plan and organise an event, taking into account all relevant factors and ensuring its successful execution.
Plan, allocate and monitor work of a teamReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Plan work for a team
- Allocate work across a team
- Manage team members to achieve team objectives
- Monitor and evaluate the performance of team members
- Improve the performance of a team
Prepare specifications for contractsReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal and ethical considerations related to work contracts
- Understand how to prepare for the selection of contractors or suppliers
- Prepare clear and comprehensive specifications for work to be contracted out
- Agree on fair and relevant selection criteria for evaluating potential contractors or suppliers
Presentation SoftwareReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Input and combine text and other information within presentation slides.
- Use presentation software tools to structure, edit and format slide sequences logically and consistently.
- Prepare slideshow for presentation, ensuring it is visually appealing and conveys the intended message effectively.
Presentation SoftwareReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Input and combine text and other information, such as images and charts, within presentation slides.
- Use presentation software tools to structure, edit and format presentations to a professional standard.
- Prepare an interactive slideshow for presentation, incorporating multimedia elements and engaging features.
Specify the design requirement for marketing databasesReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the specific requirements for a marketing database, considering business needs and objectives.
- Specify the capabilities of a marketing database, including data storage, retrieval, and analysis functionalities.
Spreadsheet SoftwareReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Use a spreadsheet to enter, edit and organise numerical and other data.
- Select and use appropriate formulas and data analysis tools to meet requirements.
- Select and use tools and techniques to present and format spreadsheet information.
Spreadsheet SoftwareReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Use a spreadsheet to enter, edit and organise numerical and other data accurately and efficiently.
- Select and use appropriate formulas and data analysis tools and techniques to meet requirements, ensuring accurate and meaningful results.
- Use tools and techniques to present, and format and publish spreadsheet information in a clear, concise, and professional manner.
Use digital and social media in marketing campaignsReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand planning requirements for the use of digital and social media in marketing campaigns, including legal and ethical considerations
- Market to target customers using digital and social media platforms, selecting appropriate channels and content
Use digital technology for marketing purposesReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Use digital tools for marketing purposes
- Carry out marketing research using the internet
- Create digital marketing devices and messages
- Use digital technology for social media marketing purposes
Using Collaborative TechnologiesReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Identify and follow safety procedures when working with collaborative technology
- Identify and follow security procedures to protect data and privacy when using collaborative technology
- Plan the use of IT tools and devices for collaborative working, considering the task and participants
- Set up IT tools and devices effectively to facilitate collaborative working
- Prepare collaborative technologies for use by ensuring they are configured correctly and accessible to all participants
- Contribute effectively to tasks using collaborative technologies, such as sharing information and participating in discussions
Using Collaborative TechnologiesReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Stay safe and secure when working with collaborative technology, adhering to organisational policies and procedures
- Plan and set up IT tools and devices effectively for collaborative working, considering user needs and accessibility
- Prepare collaborative technologies for use, ensuring they are configured correctly and ready for the intended purpose
- Manage tasks effectively using collaborative technologies, tracking progress and ensuring completion
Website SoftwareReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Create appropriate structures for websites, ensuring usability and accessibility
- Create styles for websites, maintaining a consistent design and branding
- Use website software tools effectively to prepare content for websites, optimising for different devices and browsers
- Publish websites, ensuring they are accessible and functional for users
Website SoftwareReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Create website structures.
- Create website styles.
- Use website structures and styles to produce websites.
- Select website software tools to develop multiple page websites with multimedia and interactive features.
- Use website software features to develop multiple page websites with multimedia and interactive features.
- Publish multiple page websites with multimedia and interactive features.
- Test multiple page websites with multimedia and interactive features.
Work with other people in a business environmentReal unit · BIIAB
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to support an organisation’s overall mission and purpose
- Understand how to work as a team to achieve goals and objectives
- Understand how to communicate effectively as a team
- Understand the contribution of individuals within a team
- Understand how to deal with problems and disagreements within a team
- Understand the purpose of feedback when working as a team
- Work in a team to achieve goals and objectives
- Deal with problems that arise in a team
- Share feedback on objectives within a team
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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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.
- Develop the creative content for a marketing campaign or activity
- Evaluate the performance of marketing activities
- Implement an organisation’s marketing plan
- Manage a Business Link client portfolio
Where this can lead
Advertising Coordinator
Your journey starts here, learning the foundations. With dedication and a thirst for knowledge, you can build a truly impactful career in advertising. We're excited to see where you take it.
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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
This unit provides learners with skills to develop and agree budgets. Learners will analyse financial information, consider organisational objectives, and communicate effectively with stakeholders to ensure budget alignment and approval.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for BIIAB Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Marketing
37 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by BIIAB.
- Agree a budget
- Analyse competitor activity
- Bespoke Software
- Chair meetings
- Co-ordinate an event
- Conduct market research
and 31 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
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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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