
Learn how brand management drives marketing strategy through organizational structure, distribution models, and trade marketing, linking consumer insights to sales channels from wholesalers to e-commerce.
Explore the sales and distribution role in brand management, including distribution infrastructure, sku planning, stock management, and revenue metrics from outlets visited and productive calls in modern trade and ecommerce.
Learn how trade marketing connects sales to retailers and distributors by understanding consumers, shoppers, and customers, and by using incentives, point-of-sale materials, and shopper marketing.
Explore how consumer research shapes brand decisions, using marketing insights, qualitative and quantitative methods, focus groups and direct interviews, and the new consumer classification system with Gillette India case.
Learn to craft a sharp brand concept by articulating insight, benefit, and reason to believe in a concept card, and translate it into benefits for strong brand positioning.
Explore how to solidify a brand concept into a framework, test it with qualitative and quantitative research, and evolve brand positioning, messaging, and visual identity through consumer insights.
Explore how different media vehicles—video, TV, print, outdoor, radio, and digital—fit into a brand's media plan, guided by creative briefs and audience reach considerations.
Evaluate creative outputs against the creative brief's objective, shortlist viable options, and apply the simple, unexpected, concrete, credible, emotional storytelling framework to craft engaging, credible communication.
This course covers the fundamentals of brand management and marketing strategy of consumer goods.
We start with the basics of sales and distribution of consumer goods. This is important to understand the overall industry and hence look at the role of a brand manager with that context.
We cover the key roles in marketing i.e Consumer research, Media planning and Brand Management.
We then look at how to create a brand positioning by writing a brand concept and using a positioning framework.
Once we've established the brand positioning we use the same to create brand communication.
We not only look at the process of creating brand communication but also what gets some brand to create consistently good communication while others struggle to do so.
We then learn how to evaluate a brand communication, internally as well as using consumer research.
We then move on to learn about the different media vehicles and their unique properties. This helps us answer which media vehicle would be better suited to our brand and message.
We wrap up the course with a look at how brand health is measured. Once we're able to identify the strength and weakness of our brand with consumers, we can take the learning and apply the techniques that we've learnt in the previous sessions.