MBA Executive MBA Retail Management

Want to take your career in retail to the next level? The University of Bolton’s Executive MBA in Retail Management explores the skills required to tackle complex, strategic business challenges in one of the largest economic sectors. This stimulating part-time course aims to prepare you for a career at senior management level.

Course Details

At the University of Bolton we pride ourselves in delivering higher level qualifications that are designed in consultation with the private sector, helping this Executive MBA course benefit from truly international recognition amongst employers. The Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Retail Management is a part-time career development programme for those with previous management experience, designed specifically to advance your career in retail management. It focuses on developing the strategic thinking skills needed in today’s global retail economy.

We’ll guide you to develop vital skills and knowledge of different retail organisations, their management and supply chains, and help you explore creative and systematic approaches to understanding business issues. We’ll also support you to develop the knowledge needed to improve business and management practice, in addition to encouraging you to build your intellectual capabilities in research, critique and synthesis.

This combination of academic and professional skills will help give you the tools to work with self-direction and originality, and to contribute to business and society at large. Overall, we offer opportunities and support for you to develop the sought-after analytical and critical competencies that prestigious employers in today’s global economy value so highly.

Career Opportunities

If you are focussed on a career in the retail industry, this Executive MBA is designed to help you gain a critical understanding of the problems and challenges facing retail enterprises and organisations, and equip you with the analytical and critical faculties to identify potential solutions. As a graduate, you’ll possess an overview of key business practices, and further skills in areas such as operational management, marketing, strategic planning and accounting.

An MBA is often a route to promotion or a career change. Retail companies around the world seek out business and management professionals with an MBA – and an Executive MBA specifically in Retail Management is likely to attract their attention. Every business, from tiny start-ups to large companies, need someone with experience and the necessary education to support common business processes like accounting, finance, human resources, marketing, public relations, sales, and management.