MA Marketing Management

In today’s fast-paced global business environment, strategic marketing influences every aspect of business, informing decisions about how to create and maintain consumer demand, increase profit, build reputation and stay ahead of the competition. Incorporating the latest digital and analytic marketing practices, our Master’s reflects the ever-changing nature of this exciting profession.Internationalisation and digitisation have fundamentally shifted marketing contexts: types of businesses, products and services, channels and communication media, and consumer behaviour are changing rapidly. Businesses of all shapes and sizes – large or small, global or local, innovative or traditional, public or private – now compete for the same market. Marketing professionals can steer a company toward success through innovative product development, savvy pricing strategies, creative communications and timely market insight.The aim of both the MA and MSc is to improve your managerial effectiveness in the increasingly digitised, automated and globalised field of marketing. It will deepen your understanding of the relationship between marketing and the wider organisation, as well as the organisation and its customers, enabling you to adopt a holistic forward-looking approach to marketing to achieve long-term sustainable competitive advantage.Suitable for existing marketers keen to adopt a strategic approach to marketing management or those from a non-marketing background, our balanced portfolio has been designed to deliver the breadth and depth of knowledge required to excel in marketing strategy, market research, digital and global marketing, product and brand management.Marketing Management MA Special emphasis in the MA is laid on enhancing participants’ analytical and creative skills that are crucial for sound innovative decision-making, imaginative problem solving, and developing and implementing marketing strategies in a fast-changing, global business environment.Careers:As a graduate, you'll be ready to work as a marketing manager, marketing consultant, product, brand, customer relations or PR manager, or a marketing communications manager for private companies andor non-profits, social enterprises and government organisations around the world.Taught in the heart of London, close to many of the city’s national, international and global employers, our emphasis on skills, capabilities and attributes – with multiple opportunities throughout the course to apply these capabilities to real business problems – will provide direct work experience to enhance your CV and narrative when applying for new positions. These applied projects will not only expand your professional networks, but directly enhance your prospects for early employability after graduation.

A minimum of a lower second class honours degree (2:2). Applicants to this course should already have achieved the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Postgraduate Professional Diploma. If your first language is not English you should have an IELTS 6.5 with at least 6.0 in writing. TOEFL 88 overall with a minimum of 17 in Listening, 21 in Writing, 18 in Reading and 20 in Speaking.