Retail Management Level 3
Develop your knowledge of retail management from home!
- Develop your understanding of the wider commercial environment in which retail operates.
- Discover the importance of supply chain and inventory management.
- Learn how to ensure that your team delivers excellent customer service.
- Understand the role that pricing strategy and how it influences consumer choice.
Ideal for those wishing to progress into management position, and useful for current retail managers wishing to maximise their career development, this course enables you to develop a thorough knowledge of all core aspects of successful retail management.
You can work at your own pace. Completed coursework can be delivered by post or via email, so handing in an assignment is simple.
Course Duration
Up to 12 months
Study Hours
Approximately 120 hours
Course Outcome
You will receive a Certificate of Achievement from ABC Awards and Certa Awards and a Learner Unit Summary
Entry Requirements
There are no specific entry requirements for this course.
Assessment
Tutor-marked assessments
- Retail management is changing
- Losing touch with consumers
- Market segmentation
- Rational models
- The role of experience in shopping
- Finding out how customers feel
- Brands: meaning and values
- What is customer service?
- The importance of customer service
- The experience of being in your store
- Locating the right product
- Solving customers' problems
- The value chain
- What to stock and whom to sell it to
- Who to buy supplies from
- Inventory management
- Forecasting and early sales data
- Restocking and rapid supply
- Direct channels
- Access and convenience
- Standardisation
- Localisation
- Clustering
- Suppliers and manufacturer partnerships
- Point of purchase
- Distribution strategy
- A return to haggling?
- Advertising and promotion
- Social media and publicity
- Is cheapest best?
- Costs
- Price-matching
- Signposting
- Customer loyalty schemes
- Other pricing strategies
- Real value integrity
- Getting the right people
- Creating a customer-oriented culture
- Personality and motivation
- Managing performance
- Setting motivational SMART goals
- Expectations, value and brand
- Training and developing people
- Leading and managing people
- Role modelling
- Coaching
- Learning about people
Assessment
This course is assessed by a series of written assignments which are marked by your tutor. No external examination is required.
Course Duration
You may start at any time and have a full year to complete your studies. We suggest that the course will take approximately 120 hours to complete. This is more than enough time to give you flexibility and work at your own pace without the pressure of deadlines.
Study Method
You will study this course by distance learning, which will enable you to learn when and where you want. You can study from home or at work; it is completely up to you. All your materials will be posted or emailed to you online, whichever you choose. You will also receive our award-winning tutor support by email, so help is only a click away!
Course Outcomes
At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement from ABC Awards and Certa Awards and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).
Awarding Body
This course has been endorsed by ABC Awards and Certa Awards for its high-quality. This course is not regulated by Ofqual and is not an accredited qualification. We will be able to advise you on any further recognition, for example progression routes into further and/or higher education.
For further information please visit the Learner FAQs on the ABC Awards and Certa Awards website.
This course has been benchmarked at level 3 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of knowledge and understanding that you would expect at this level.
You do not need any previous knowledge to enrol onto this course.
You may start at any time and have a full year to complete your studies. It is truly flexible and is designed to be adaptable around your lifestyle and other commitments.
- Dedicated personal tutor support
- Dedicated student support
- Assignment marking and feedback
- FREE TOTUM card (formerly NUS)
- FREE CV writing service
- FREE employability guide to help you impress future employers
- *Comprehensive study guide
- *Open Study College pen and highlighter
- *Student study planner
- *Student notebook
- *Document wallet
* Not included with the online study option
You will send your work to your personal course tutor for them to mark and return to you. On successful completion of the course you will achieve Retail Management Level 3.
It's not a problem. We offer a course replacement service, so if you get into trouble and your course pack is lost or damaged, our Student Support Team can provide you with a new set of materials for a one-time additional fee.
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