Accelerate your business career with a focus on the dynamic field of marketing.

The one-year Marketing Management Ontario College Graduate Certificate prepares you to thrive in today`s marketing industry. Analyze consumer attitudes and behaviours in regards to products and services in our rapidly changing world. Through a creative, flexible and customer-focused approach, develop an understanding of both domestic and international marketing issues.

Among other topics, you develop a critical understanding of the competitive and customer-oriented demands of a business, its product and service operations and its marketing processes and resources. Acquire creative, procedural and critical marketing expertise to generate, implement and evaluate marketing programs that satisfy customer requirements.

Act as consultants and complete an industry project where you apply your knowledge and skills to a real-world situation by developing a marketing plan and strategy for a local organization.

Using a variety of learning formats, the program is delivered over two terms.

Graduates may obtain employment in a variety of for-profit and non-profit organizations.

SUCCESS FACTORS

This program is well-suited for students who:

• Thrive in team-based environments.
• Adapt well to organizational changes.
• Are motivated, focused and committed to attaining goals.
• Display personality traits of integrity, creativity and strategic thinking.

Careers

Graduates may obtain employment in a variety of for profit and non-profit organizations as a brand assistant, coordinator or manager; market analyst; retail manager; marketing assistant, coordinator or manager; marketing consultant, marketing representative or product manager.

Pathways

Please use our Pathways tool to search for pathway options.

The graduate has reliably demonstrated the ability to:

1. Formulate a marketing plan that will meet the needs or goals of a business or organization.
2. Develop an integrated marketing communications plan for a product, concept, good and/or service based on an identified market need or target.
3. 3. Formulate strategies for developing new and/or modified products, concepts, goods and services that respond to evolving market needs.
4. Develop strategies for the efficient and effective placement/ distribution of products, concepts, goods, and services that respond to evolving markets.
5. Evaluate the impact of using different marketing strategies for a product, concept, good and/or service, on the finances, Return on Investment (ROI) and business goals of an organization.
6. Evaluate the viability of a concept, product, good and/ or service in a local, national or international markets.
7. Conduct market research to provide information needed to make marketing decisions.
8. Communicate marketing information persuasively and accurately in oral, written, graphic and interactive media formats.
9. Plan, prepare and deliver a sales presentation or pitch that addresses the needs of the client.
10. Develop strategies with clients, customers, and consumers and others to grow and maintain relationships.
11. Develop learning and development strategies and plans to enhance professional growth in the field.
12. Apply entrepreneurial strategies to identify and respond to new career opportunities that might include contract employment, and self-employment initiatives.
13. Participate in and contribute to a framework of organizational policies and practices, when conducting business of the organization.
14. Apply the principles of business ethics and corporate social responsibility to business decisions.
15. Employ the management techniques of planning, organizing, directing, and controlling of marketing functions and activities in response to the business needs of the organization.
16. Identify and apply discipline-specific practices that contribute to the local and global community through social responsibility, economic commitment and environmental stewardship.

Application Information

MARKETING MANAGEMENT
Program Code 1310X01FWO

Applications to full-time day programs must be submitted with official transcripts showing completion of the academic admission requirements through:

ontariocolleges.ca
60 Corporate Court
Guelph, Ontario N1G 5J3
1-888-892-2228

Applications are available online at www.ontariocolleges.ca.

Applications for Fall Term and Winter Term admission received by February 1 will be given equal consideration. Applications received after February 1 will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis as long as places are available.

International applicants applying from out-of-country can obtain the International Student Application Form at https://algonquincollefe.force.com/myACint/ or by contacting the Registrar`s Office.

For further information on the admissions process, contact:

Registrar`s Office
Algonquin College
1385 Woodroffe Ave
Ottawa, ON K2G 1V8
Telephone: 613-727-0002
Toll-free: 1-800-565-4723
TTY: 613-727-7766
Fax: 613-727-7632
Contact: https://www.algonquincollege.com/ro

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