Assignment title: Marketing plan for [company X]
Assignment Weight: 75% of your overall module mark.
Assessment type: Individual report, 2500 words including tables
Assessment deadline: –
Assignment briefing:
You are required to write a marketing plan assessing the current marketing
strategies of an existing company. Please chose one company and assess this
company in the UK. Please note your marketing plan must be UK focused. This
plan should identify the current ways the company is generating value for
stakeholders in the UK.
The marketing plan should follow the SOSTAC model. It is vital that all students read
and understand the marking rubric.
Assignment Structure:
Cover page
Executive summary – limit to one page providing complete converge of each
section of your plan. The reader should be able to have a basic understanding of all
aspects of your plan. The summary assists the reader in understanding your plan.
Contents page – it includes all sections and sub-sections, it should also include the
list of figures and tables
Introduction – provides the background of your chosen company, including it’s
mission, vision and key values.
Main body – it should contain the following stages
STAGE 1
Situational analysis
The situation analysis should provide an overview of your organisation/market
offering (product or service) by addressing the business environment, and internal
and external factors impacting the business.
2
The situation analysis can be organised into the following sections:
competitors are. A perceptual map should be used to explain positioning.
Tables can be used, but a critical discussion of the most important elements which
directly influence the objectives, strategy and implementation must be critically
discussed.
STAGE 2
Objective
You are required to set two SMART objectives, these will derive from either:
or
STAGE 3
Strategy
This stage requires you to assesse the current strategies which relate to the SMART
objectives you have just derived.
A marketing strategy is a broad directional statement that describes how marketing
objectives will be accomplished. Within our marketing plan, the marketing strategies
represent a first overview of various marketing tools and how they will be used to
achieve the marketing objectives.
You are expected to apply Ansoff Matrix as the marketing strategic framework here.
STAGE 4
Tactics
Tactics cover the specific tools of the marketing mix (7P’s) that you plan to use to
realise the objectives of your marketing plan. This section of a marketing plan relates
to putting the strategy into action (step by step) you would be going into a lot more
detail for each tactic.
To help achieve the objectives above, use the 7P’s of the marketing mix to focus on
the key attributes to be considered by Company X in order to meet your objectives.
In addition, you need to include internal marketing in this section in order to
demonstrate how this marketing plan can be promoted within the organisation.
3
STAGE 5
Action
The action section covers what needs to be achieved for each of the tactics listed in
the previous section of the SOSTAC plan to realise the objectives of your marketing
plan.
Please use a Gantt Chart to help explain the actions as part of the strategy and
tactics.
STAGE 6
Control
The final stage is to layout how you plan to monitor and measure your performance
based on the objective set at stage 2. The tactics have been considered and your
control section is providing you with a series of dashboards tailored for each tactic.
Look to set the KPI’s per tactic that tie back into the objectives set and set up a
weekly/monthly set of monitoring dashboards to ensure you are on track to meet the
objectives set.
Conclusion – it should be the summary of your key findings and recommendations.
References – Make sure you follow Harvard or APA style.
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