Course overview

With the pressures of modern life we understand that you may not have time to commit to studying for a full degree. Or perhaps you already have a degree and are looking to improve your skills with additional training. Either way, at Anglia Ruskin we have listened carefully to what you have to say and have come up with this fantastic targeted short course which develop practical business skills contextualised to the workplace. Leading Business Development focuses on some of the core elements developed for our world-renowned BA (Hons) Sales, which we designed exclusively with Harrods.

Now, for the very first time, we are giving you the chance to choose from topics such as account management, sales and marketing which we have crafted into an easy-to-manage 1-year University Diploma.

Our specialist delivery teams guide learners through the programmes, ensuring that the learning is relevant and supporting the individual's work.

Anglia Ruskin University have considerable expertise in helping businesses grow. We designed our Leading Business Development course to help you develop and your organisation to build the sales teams needed to thrive in a competitive world, with the opportunity to focus on sales and marketing techniques and strategies.

Additional course information

In a highly competitive environment, the ability to lead successful business development is crucial if individuals and organisations are to thrive. This course equips you with the skills and knowledge you need to make a positive impact in times of change.

This course takes 9-11 months and contains the following modules:

Special features

• Relevant and useful course content, focused on business results.
• Flexible learning through our web-based Virtual Learning Environment.
• Study exclusive content from the BA (Hons) Sales degree developed with Harrods.
• Fully supported by Anglia Ruskin's specialist Distance Learning Tutors and Distance Learning Facilitator.
• Support available through telephone and email communication as appropriate.
• Full access to Anglia Ruskin University's support facilities, including our extensive digital library and on-campus libraries in Cambridge and Chelmsford.
• Estimated learning hours per week: 5-10 hours, including contributing to online discussions, research and assessed reports etc.

Associated careers

You will gain extensive skills and knowledge to help you in your career, as well as being able to benefit your organisation.

Completion will give you a great position to progress onto one of Anglia Ruskin's fantastic work-based and distance learning degree programmes.

Entry requirements

We have designed this course to be as flexible as possible and therefore we will consider most levels of ability and experience.

We need to ensure that everyone starting the course is capable of completing it, and so the entry requirements are designed to give people the opportunity to prove that they can do this. Candidates may provide evidence of their ability to complete the course through their previous academic achievement (e.g. A levels, NVQs etc), or through their experience at work. Each case will be assessed individually, but as a rough guide, successful candidates will have 2 passes at A-level and relevant work experience. We normally interview applicants.