Developing & Implementing Strategic Marketing Plans

A Professional Training Course On:

Developing
& Implementing
Strategic Marketing Plans

Elevating Commercial Strategy, Customer Value, and Market Leadership

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Course Schedule

About This Developing & Implementing Strategic Marketing Plans Training Course

Developing & Implementing Strategic Marketing Plans training course equips leaders with the strategic tools, analytical frameworks, and leadership capabilities required to convert deep market insights into sustainable competitive advantage and commercial growth. Modern business landscapes demand that corporate executives move beyond fragmented, reactive tactics and establish integrated, value-driven market strategies. A well-designed strategic marketing architecture acts as the crucial bridge between high-level executive ambition and real-world customer engagement, ensuring that every product, service, and commercial proposition generates measurable return on investment while strengthening corporate brand equity.

By mastering the underlying drivers of market positioning, consumer behaviour, and value creation, leadership teams can systematically anticipate shifting market dynamics, identify high-margin growth opportunities, and navigate competitive pressures. Building and executing a robust marketing strategy fosters organizational alignment across functional teams, enabling businesses to deploy capital efficiently, optimize resources, and maximize customer lifetime value. Organizations that embrace a disciplined approach to strategic planning position themselves to build market resilience, drive sustainable profitability, and secure long-term market leadership in an increasingly complex global economy.

Expected Outcomes

By completing the Developing & Implementing Strategic Marketing Plans training course, participants will strengthen their ability to drive revenue growth and align commercial strategies with broader business goals, achieving the following key competencies:

  • Formulate robust market analysis frameworks to turn complex industry data into actionable commercial opportunities.
  • Construct precise audience segmentation models to prioritize high-value customer segments effectively.
  • Establish measurable marketing objectives directly aligned with corporate profitability and market share targets.
  • Optimize the complete commercial marketing mix to maximize product differentiation and profit margins.
  • Design clear performance metrics and governance structures to monitor, evaluate, and refine strategic execution.
  • Navigate internal organizational dynamics to align cross-functional teams around strategic marketing priorities.

This Course is Best For

The Developing & Implementing Strategic Marketing Plans training course is designed specifically for senior executives and functional leaders responsible for driving commercial strategy, including:

  • Chief Marketing Officers and Marketing Directors
  • Heads of Strategic Planning and Business Growth
  • Senior Brand Managers and Product Portfolio Directors
  • Commercial Directors and Sales Executives
  • General Managers overseeing corporate growth strategy

Training Method

Participants in the Developing & Implementing Strategic Marketing Plans training course experience an immersive and collaborative environment focused on real-world business strategy. Through guided executive discussions, reflective analysis of actual market dynamics, and structured problem-solving, participants challenge existing commercial practices and explore modern frameworks.

This approach emphasizes continuous knowledge sharing and instructor-led guidance, enabling leaders to evaluate strategic models against their unique organizational contexts. By engaging in peer-to-peer dialogues and practical planning exercises, delegates gain actionable insights that can be immediately applied to enhance corporate effectiveness and commercial decision-making.

Course Outline

Day 1:Introduction to Marketing Planning
  • The core marketing concepts
  • 4 P’s of the marketing mix: product, price, promotion, place
  • Useful frameworks for creating a marketing strategic plan
  • Setting strategic marketing goals: linking to corporate vision, mission & business objectives
Day 2:Situation Review – Analysing the Current Situation
  • Different models for conducting a marketing audit
  • Collating customer and product data
  • Using a SWOT to identify key internal & external factors
  • Making assumptions based on the SWOT analysis
  • Determining demand for your products and services
  • Agreeing expected results
Day 3:Formulating Strategy
  • The 4 competitive strategic positions
  • Ansoff’s Matrix: setting strategic marketing objectives
  • Understanding what motivates audiences
  • The market segmentation process
  • Creating buyer personas for key market segments
  • The marketing control process: forecasting, budgeting & monitoring
Day 4:4 P’s – Executing Marketing Tactics
  • Developing new products and services
  • Managing the product life cycle
  • Product mix decisions: families, lines and brands
  • Pricing mix decisions: costs, demand, methods
  • Promotion mix decisions: advertising, promotions, PR & selling
  • Place mix decisions: push vs pull, channels length & type
Day 5:Delivering the Marketing Strategy
  • Co-opting a team representing key areas of the business to input to the strategy
  • Running workshops to ensure the marketing strategy captures experiences and concerns of stakeholders
  • Drafting the document: number of pages and their content
  • Anticipating office politics: winning support up and down the organisation
  • Action planning

Certificate

  • The 360 Leaders Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course

Our Collaboration

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Developing & Implementing Strategic Marketing Plans FAQs

This training course enables organizations to eliminate fragmented marketing efforts by establishing a structured, strategic approach to growth. Delegates learn how to align commercial execution with high-level corporate goals, ensuring that marketing expenditure directly contributes to long-term profitability, customer acquisition, and market positioning.  

The frameworks and strategic models taught throughout the course are designed for immediate implementation. Participants return to their organizations with practical approaches for conducting market audits, defining value propositions, and aligning cross-functional teams behind strategic plans.  
While designed for senior leaders and managers, prior deep technical expertise in marketing is not strictly necessary. A foundational understanding of business operations and commercial goals is sufficient, as the course focuses on strategic decision-making, executive planning, and organizational leadership.  
Mastering the creation and execution of market-facing strategies is a critical competency for executive leadership. Completing this training course equips professionals with high-level strategic planning skills, elevating their ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead broader commercial initiatives.  
A structured strategy brings clarity to commercial decision-making, reduces wasted resources on ineffective campaigns, and aligns product development, sales, and executive management around clear customer-centric goals.  
Delegates gain access to practical planning structures and analytical frameworks that serve as long-term strategic tools. These resources enable leaders to continuously audit, adjust, and optimize their strategic marketing initiatives in response to evolving market conditions well into the future.  

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