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Careers in Fashion: Retail Marketing, Merchandising, and Management

Learn more about retail marketing, the roles in each area of fashion retail, and how to plan a career path for your dream job.

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Careers in Fashion: Retail Marketing, Merchandising, and Management

  • 3 weeks

  • 2 hours per week

  • Digital certificate when eligible

  • Introductory level

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Develop your understanding of fashion retail careers

On this three-week course from Bloomsbury Academic, you’ll examine the retail level of the fashion industry in three function areas: marketing, management, and merchandising.

Explore fashion retail marketing and its many careers

The more a business can integrate advertising, publicity, sales promotion, and personal selling, the more promotion will be effective.

You’ll delve into the marketing mix and marketing plans that are used by retailers. You’ll then look at career tracks that focus on marketing and promotion within retail, from marketing director and brand marketing manager to art director and copywriter.

Learn how to become a fashion retail merchandiser

Retail merchandisers, or buyers, have a tremendous impact on their fashion retailing businesses in terms of exclusivity, image, and pricing.

On this course, you’ll learn about the wide variety of positions available in the merchandising division of retailing operation, depending on a business’s size and channels of distribution.

Discover the vital role of management in fashion retail

Towards the end of the course, you’ll explore the career opportunities in retail management; the division in charge of organizing and controlling the affairs of the business as a whole or a particular department.

As you delve into each career path, you’ll examine the challenges of each role and the relevant qualifications needed to follow that path.

What topics will you cover?

  • Marketing for the retailer
  • Merchandising for the retailer
  • Management for the retailer

When would you like to start?

Start straight away and join a global classroom of learners. If the course hasn’t started yet you’ll see the future date listed below.

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Learning on this course

On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

  • Develop a marketing strategy to construct and implement a marketing plan
  • Evaluate the interrelationship of product, price, placement, promotion, and people
  • Justify the pricing of the product and placing to ensure the success of the business
  • Identify a target market and clarify promotional goals to reach and penetrate the market

Who is the course for?

This course is designed for anyone interested in a career in fashion, especially one within fashion retail.

Who will you learn with?

I lead a team of content experts who work with educators to create, develop and deliver high quality and inspiring content that changes lives.

Who developed the course?

Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house, established in 1986, with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes.and is the originating publisher and custodian of the Harry Potter series. Bloomsbury has offices in London, New York, New Delhi, Oxford and Sydney. Within Bloomsbury’s Academic division, it publishes under Bloomsbury, as well as under a number of prestigious and historic imprint names.

Fairchild Books

With a history stretching back over more than 100 years, Fairchild Books is a world-leading publisher in the fields of fashion and interior design.

FutureLearn

FutureLearn is a leading social learning platform and has been providing high quality online courses for learners around the world over the last ten years.

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Choose the best way to learn for you!

Subscribe & save

$39.99

For your first month. Automatically renews

Develop skills to further your career

  • Access to this course
  • Access to 1,000+ courses
  • Learn at your own pace
  • Discuss your learning in comments
  • Digital certificate when you're eligible

Cancel for free anytime

Buy this course

$79/one-off payment

Fulfill your current learning need

  • Access to this course
  • Learn at your own pace
  • Discuss your learning in comments
  • Printed and digital certificate when you’re eligible

Limited access

Free

Sample the course materials

  • Access expires 4 Jan 2025

Find out more about certificates, Unlimited or buying a course (Upgrades)

Sale price available until 29 December 2024 at 23:59 (UTC). T&Cs apply.

Find out more about certificates, Unlimited or buying a course (Upgrades)

Sale price available until 29 December 2024 at 23:59 (UTC). T&Cs apply.

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  • Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
  • Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores

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  • Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate

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