Understand your role

During this exercise, you will be responsible for formulating and implementing the long-term marketing strategy of your division. In particular, you and your team members will have to:

•      Work in a highly competitive market;

•      Target selected customer segments and position your products;

•      Interface with the R&D department to design and develop new products;

•      Prepare the launch of new products; improve, maintain or withdraw existing ones;

•      Interface with the production department to specify production planning;

•      Make marketing mix decisions (pricing, communication, …) for each of your products;

•      Decide on the size and priorities of your commercial team;

•      Order market research studies to get up-to-date information for decision making.