Postgraduate Marketing Diploma

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2nd Feb 2026 (Other dates available) Online

Postgraduate Marketing Diploma

This Postgraduate Marketing Diploma is designed to help you develop your marketing leadership abilities and master tools that improve business outcomes.

Want to build a successful marketing team and lead with confidence? Learn how to develop data-backed marketing strategies and get the most out of your team.

Are you keen to keep up with the fast-paced world of Digital Marketing and sharpen your marketing leadership skills? Then this is the perfect online marketing qualification for you. You’ll refine your marketing knowledge and discover how to drive better performance through omni-channel marketing. Master smart techniques that will enable you to be an intelligent marketing leader and an expert in your field.

How this Postgraduate Marketing Diploma helps you succeed

  • Take your career to the next level: Whether you’re aiming for a bigger role or more influence, you’ll have the tools and confidence to get there.

  • Lead people, not just projects: Discover how to bring out the best in your team and create a culture where everyone can succeed.

  • Make smarter decisions with data: Learn how to really understand your customers and turn insights into results you can be proud of.

  • Keep pace with digital change: Stay ahead in the fast-moving world of omni-channel marketing and feel confident using the latest approaches.

  • Become the leader you want to be: Walk away with the knowledge and skills that set you apart as a trusted expert in your field.

What is a DMA Postgraduate Marketing Diploma?

This Postgraduate Marketing Diploma is designed for marketing leaders and those who have completed a relevant degree. 

This Postgraduate Marketing Diploma is designed to work around your schedule. It can be completed in 10 to 12 months. 

This is a level equivalent 7 Postgraduate Diploma that offers 37+ CPD points.

What will you learn?

You’ll learn all about intelligent marketing and how to deliver strategies backed by data and insights. This course is designed to help you become the best leader you can be and build successful marketing teams delivering results across different channels. On this marketing course you’ll also cover things like understanding the marketing landscape, brand building, financial analysis and CRM. You’ll also cover crucial customer insights and learn how to manage integrated communications.

Postgraduate Marketing Diploma Course Content

Understand the drivers for effective marketing in a demanding, data-rich, overly saturated marketing environment.

  • What is Intelligent marketing?

  • What is a strategic approach?

  • Adopting an omnichannel approach

  • The importance of customer first

  • The importance of data in marketing

Gain an informed, objective and realistic perception of the marketing environment, in preparation for developing a forward-looking omni-channel marketing strategy.

  • Assessing the marketplace

  • Reviewing your ability to compete

  • Digital audit

  • Knowing your customers and prospects

  • Intermediary assessment and partner management

  • Competitor benchmarking

  • Assessing the macro environment

  • Completing the SWOT analysis

Create an effective strategy by using data to identify and target different audiences, using relevant and powerful propositions and building detailed models of segmented customer journeys on the pathway to purchase.

  • Developing a compelling marketing strategy

  • Defining SMART objectives to shape strategy

  • Understanding the importance of customer targeting

  • Using research, data & insight to inform your marketing strategy

  • Designing propositions to connect with audiences

  • Mapping the customer journey to improve effectiveness

Develop a process for evaluating the cost-effectiveness of your digital marketing campaigns and their performance in relation to your business and marketing objectives.

  • Develop an effective budget

  • Developing financial models

  • Creating and managing annual budgets

  • Creating and managing campaign budgets

  • Calculating the Lifetime Value (LTV) of your customers

To enable you to take advantage of the opportunities offered by digital marketing to redefine brand value and experience in the hearts and minds of prospects and customers.

  • Branding in the digital environment

  • Developing your online value

  • Building communities

  • Measuring engagement

  • Developing effective propositions

Enhance your ability to consistently find and make use of customer insights that improve the performance of your marketing activity.

  • Understanding customer data

  • Developing a customer data strategy

  • Creating a Single Customer View

  • Developing your approach to profiling, segmentation and targeting

  • Profiling your data

  • Segmenting your customers

  • Improving your targeting strategies

Take advantage of campaign planning techniques and channel assessment processes to develop an integrated approach to your marketing activity.

  • Developing an integrated approach to planning

  • Advancing your communications and customer experience

  • Managing integrated campaigns

  • Creating a media neutral consumer centric approach

  • Exploring Amazon's approach to Integrated Communications Planning (IMC)

From targeting and measuring and reviewing creative, to understanding how to embrace the technological opportunities, learn everything you need to know to set up your team to deliver effective marketing campaigns.

  • Developing your approach to campaign planning

  • Advancing your campaign targeting

  • Establishing the media strategy

  • Improving approaches to creative messaging

  • Optimising intra-media scheduling

  • Amplifying your test and learn strategies

  • Measuring multi-channel marketing and media attribution

Incorporate CRM activities into your practices to drive customer-first communication strategies, including integrated communications, personalisation and permission marketing.

  • - Developing your approach to CRM

  • - Creating an integrated CRM strategy

  • - The principles of permission marketing

  • - Developing personalised contact strategies

  • - Managing customer preferences

  • - Analysing the value of customer interactions

From digital transformation to organisational design and leadership, learn to operate your marketing function for success.

  • Identifying digital transformation priorities

  • Leading organisational change

  • Designing agile organisational structures

  • Leading people through transformation

  • Managing external agencies and partners

  • Developing processes to drive success

  • Technology transformation planning

Who is this course for?

This course is for Heads of and Directors.

How will you be assessed?

To gain your Postgraduate Marketing Diploma, you will need to successfully pass two assignments and one exam. 

  • Two assignments

  • One exam

  • One professional practice report

You will also need to submit a professional practice report and complete two assignments. You will have six weeks to complete each assignment and three hours to complete the exam.

Once you have submitted your exam, you will have three weeks to submit your professional practice report.

Exams take place in April and October and are hosted virtually.

Why choose the DMA Postgraduate Marketing Diploma?

  • Learn from industry leaders - Beverly Barker is an accomplished marketing trainer and consultant in digital and direct marketing. 

  • Improve your credibility - Show that you’re constantly learning, ahead of trends and an agile marketeer with a recognised marketing qualification. 

  • Lead successful marketing teams with confidence - Boost your confidence and learn how to lead effective marketing teams. 

  • Trusted credentials - Earn 37+ CPD points with IDM accreditation. Take an industry leading qualification and show that you’re dedicated to marketing and you’ve invested in quality training.

Tutors

Beverly Barker

Beverly Barker

Tutor, DMA

As a specialist in marketing and marketing communications, I enjoy teaching and researching all areas of media, as reflected in my PhD study, which explores the issues and challenges facing Advertising Media Strategy and Planning.

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