Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 4
Pearson BTEC Level 4 Higher National Certificate in Marketing Management for England
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 4
- Total credits120
- Guided learning480 hours
- Units in this qualification8
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
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These are the units Pearson Education 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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Business Skills and CommunicationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply a range of interpersonal skills and different approaches to effectively manage stakeholder and customer relationships.
- Work collaboratively within a team environment to share good practice and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
- Interpret customer information to communicate effectively using a range of written, verbal, and non-verbal communication methods.
- Apply technical skills using an excel spreadsheet to report on marketing activities and analyse key performance indicators.
Managing CustomersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the principles of customer relationship management and its benefits to an organisation.
- Investigate the impacts of digital technology on customer relationship management strategies and practices.
- Apply techniques to enhance the customer experience and develop customer relationships for specific marketing purposes.
- Compare a range of metrics that can be used to monitor customer experiences and drive organisational objectives.
Managing Marketing and Digital CommunicationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explore the planning processes required for a successful marketing campaign
- Explore the delivery processes required for a successful marketing campaign
- Design a marketing campaign using multimedia platforms
- Optimise marketing campaign content to target key audiences
- Co-ordinate the implementation of a marketing campaign to meet an agreed deadline
- Assess data collected from a marketing campaign
- Analyse research findings related to a marketing campaign
- Derive insights from data and research to support improvements in future marketing campaigns
Market Research and TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the importance of market research required for marketing activities.
- Collect market research data using a range of methods and techniques.
- Apply techniques to interpret and analyse market research data.
- Present information in appropriate formats to support strategic decision making.
Marketing Strategy and PlanningReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Conduct a situational analysis as part of the marketing planning process to inform strategic decision making.
- Produce a marketing strategy for an organisation and set marketing objectives.
- Design a marketing plan with appropriate control mechanisms to measure and monitor progress.
- Apply agile working practices to address issues, challenges and discrepancy in performance for an implemented marketing plan.
Products, Content and Multi ChannelsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the product or service lifecycle stage of an organisation’s current portfolio of products or services.
- Present a multimedia marketing communications plan for a specified product or service, considering target audience and objectives.
- Produce appropriate content for a selected marketing channel that effectively meets defined communication objectives.
- Recommend methods for monitoring and evaluating the performance of multimedia channels to maximise reach and effectiveness.
The Marketing and Sales EnvironmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the core functions of marketing and sales and analyse how they relate to one another within an organisation.
- Discuss how marketing and sales activities interrelate with other business units and how they link to the overall organisational structure.
- Explore the characteristics of products and services in a range of diverse business settings and market sectors.
- Recommend relevant tools and frameworks that can be used to make better marketing and sales decisions.
The Principles of Marketing and SalesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply market segmentation techniques within both B2B and B2C contexts to select appropriate target markets for a given product or service.
- Explain the buying behaviour and decision-making processes of identified market segments for products and/or services within a specific business organisation.
- Compare the ways in which organisations utilise the elements of the marketing mix to achieve overall business objectives and strategic goals.
- Create a marketing and sales funnel for a B2C context for a selected organisation, outlining the stages and key activities involved.
The honest bit
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 4 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
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Where this can lead
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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
Learners will develop interpersonal skills to manage stakeholder and customer relationships effectively. The unit also covers collabourative working within teams, interpreting customer information, and applying communication methods to enhance business interactions.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson BTEC Level 4 Higher National Certificate in Marketing Management for England
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Business Skills and Communications
- Managing Customers
- Managing Marketing and Digital Communications
- Market Research and Techniques
- Marketing Strategy and Planning
- Products, Content and Multi Channels
and 2 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.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
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- 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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