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How you’d get this certificate

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  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Qualifi Ltd has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and Qualifi Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Qualifi Ltd.

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01What it is

The QUALIFI Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Marketing aims to equip learners with skills in strategic marketing decision-making, consumer behavior, and branding in a diverse business context, with practical applications in real-time scenarios.

These are the units Qualifi Ltd 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Qualifi Ltd. It does the teaching and the mapping. Qualifi Ltd sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Consumer Behaviour and Market Communications Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
This unit explores processes and factors influencing consumer behaviour, enabling strategic application to create customer value and critique current marketing practices.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the fundamental psychological, sociological, structural and cultural factors that influence buying behaviour.
  • Understand the relevance of particular theories, factors, models and concepts related to consumer behaviour.
  • Understanding the marketing research process and customer insight in different contexts including digital contexts.
  • Understand the process of managing customer experience, customer relationship management and market communication.
Contemporary Challenges and Strategic Marketing Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
This unit examines the integration of marketing strategy within overall business strategies, understanding key components for success in competitive markets.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of strategic marketing management.
  • Understand the key innovative business drivers for organisational success.
  • Understand models and processes of analysing business environments and strategic marketing design.
  • Understand the implementation of strategic marketing in different contexts.
Contemporary Issues and Principles of Marketing Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
This unit evaluates emerging marketing challenges and applies strategic thinking to develop actionable marketing plans across various contexts.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of the marketing function, leaders, and entrepreneurial marketing in the success of an organisation.
  • Understand external and internal environmental audits for designing marketing planning.
  • Understand the impact of strategic marketing options for marketing planning.
  • Understand the impact of marketing mix and extended marketing mix options for products and services.
Digital and Social Media Marketing Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
This unit introduces digital and social media technologies and their application in marketing, addressing their characteristics, trends, and ethical considerations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of information technology and social media in digital marketing.
  • Understand the changing dynamics of an organisation’s environment and its impacts.
  • Recommend resource-led innovative approaches using digital marketing tools to contemporary challenges.
  • Understand how to develop digital strategies and an integrated social media campaign.
Marketing Research Project Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
This unit develops learners’ research skills including proposal formulation, data analysis and conclusion drawing from qualitative data.

What you'll be able to do

  • Analyse and research problems and formulate research objectives.
  • Understand how to review literature on a research topic.
  • Design business research methodologies.
  • Develop a research proposal.
Strategic Brand Management Real unit · Qualifi Ltd
This unit focuses on principles of managing brands and brand equity, devising strategic branding approaches consistent with corporate identity.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the concept of brand and its relation to marketing areas.
  • Understand branding models and their interrelations.
  • Understand challenges in brand management.
  • Understand developing brand management strategies to meet marketing objectives.
03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Develop brand strategy

    Standard
  • Manage brand and corporate reputation

    Standard
04Where it leads

The jobs these credits are mapped to

A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.

Showing 6 roles, drawn from 79 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.

Where this can lead

Consumer Behaviour Specialist

This work builds a deep understanding of people and what drives them. It can lead to managing a team of insight specialists, or into a more senior, strategic role shaping research and business direction.

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05The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 7 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Qualifi Ltd rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Consumer Behaviour and Market CommunicationsContemporary Challenges and Strategic MarketingContemporary Issues and Principles of MarketingDigital and Social Media MarketingMarketing Research ProjectStrategic Brand Management

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Coach The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach Make the case from “Consumer Behaviour and Market Communications” to me in thirty seconds. I am the person who signs it off and I am already late.
You It would improve engagement and bring us in line with best practice.
The Coach Neither of those costs me anything to say no to. Open with the number that changes if I do nothing.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Pitch it Evaluate

    “Consumer Behaviour and Market Communications” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.

  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “Marketing Research Project” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.

  • Lead it Apply

    “Strategic Brand Management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Consumer Behaviour and Market Communications, one of this qualification's own units.

Consumer Behaviour and Market Communications Level 7

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

This unit explores processes and factors influencing consumer behaviour, enabling strategic application to create customer value and critique current marketing practices.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.

Your Plan Illustration

Built for Qualifi Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Marketing

6 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Qualifi Ltd.

  1. Consumer Behaviour and Market Communications
  2. Contemporary Challenges and Strategic Marketing
  3. Contemporary Issues and Principles of Marketing
  4. Digital and Social Media Marketing
  5. Marketing Research Project
  6. Strategic Brand Management
These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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