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Retail and Commerce: Strategist

Lead commerce growth across your own site, marketplaces and retailers: channel strategy and conflict, marketplace models, retail media portfolios with Canadian networks, profit-based bidding at scale, advanced Amazon tools, total commerce measurement, assortment and promotion strategy, and the organization behind it. Finishes with a commerce strategy capstone reviewed by a panel.

  • 8 lessons
  • 8–10 hours
  • 30-question exam
  • 90% to pass
  • Reviewed project

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What you’ll be able to do

  • Set strategy across own site, marketplaces and retailers, managing channel conflict
  • Choose marketplace models and manage Amazon.ca as a growth channel
  • Build a retail media portfolio with clear funding, standards and incrementality
  • Run profit-based bidding at scale with margin, inventory and price signals
  • Measure total commerce effects, including halo across channels
  • Organize teams, partners and joint business plans for commerce

The certification

Pass the timed exam (30 questions, 60 minutes, 90% to pass) and a project scored by a reviewer to earn the Retail and Commerce Certification: Strategist. It has its own certificate ID and a public check page, is valid for 2 years, and adds to your LinkedIn profile in one click. It also counts toward the PaidMedia.ca Strategist Certification.

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