A Highly Interactive Training Course On

Product Management for Business to Business (B2B) Companies

Learn How to Become a Credible Product Manager
and Help Your Products to Succeed in a B2B Market

Product Management for Business to Business (B2B) Companies
Course Schedule

CLASSROOM

03-07 Feb 2025
London
$5,950
30 Jun-04 Jul 2025
Dubai
$5,950
13-17 Oct 2025
Paris
$5,950
Certificate
  • Coventry Academy Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

Training Overview

Training Overview

Taking the lead and effectively managing products in your markets without formal authority is a challenge that B2B product managers often face. Success hinges on winning support from colleagues and stakeholders who play crucial roles in product success, despite lacking direct control over them.

This training course is designed to equip you with the skills to develop credible product strategies and plans that garner support and facilitate implementation. By learning best practices in B2B product management, you will acquire the knowledge, tools, and a market-focused mindset necessary to achieve success in product marketing.

Through this course, you will learn how to leverage relationships and influence to align product strategies with organizational goals. You'll discover techniques to articulate compelling value propositions and align product roadmaps with market needs. Additionally, you'll gain insights into collaborative approaches that engage cross-functional teams and leverage their expertise.

Ultimately, this training empowers B2B product managers to navigate challenges, drive product success, and achieve market leadership through effective strategy development and stakeholder engagement, even in the absence of formal authority.

What are the goals?

By the end of this Coventry Academy training course, you will be able to:

  • Take the Lead in Marketing your Products
  • Construct a Credible Product Marketing Plan
  • Adopt a More Market-focused Mind-set
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Avoid Being Drawn Into Operational Issues
  • Create Superior Value for Customers and Avoid Price Erosion
  • Manage the Product Through its Life Cycle

Who is this Training Course for?

This Coventry Academy training course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Product Managers who Want to Control How Their Products are Marketed
  • Marketing Directors who Want Their Product Managers to Think and Act Strategically
  • Marketing Managers who Want to Integrate Product Marketing
  • Product Development Managers who Want to Become Product Managers
  • Technical Experts who Want to Become Product Managers

The Course Content

Day One: The Product Manager’s Role
  • The role and challenges of a product manager
  • How to deal with the sales force
  • Constructing a B2B product marketing plan
  • Strategic fit, corporate strategy and brand
  • Defining scope and mapping market players
  • Understanding the market and its drivers
Day Two: How Customers Meet their Challenges and How to Discover Value Opportunities
  • Factors that impact on the market
  • Stakeholders and how to prioritise them
  • Understanding customers’ needs and challenges
  • Profiling decision-makers
  • Understanding the customers’ key success factors
  • Defining gaps in the customers’ capabilities
Day Three: Targeting Competitors, Defining Key Success Factors and Market Attractiveness
  • How to target competitors
  • Understanding the competitors’ strengths and weaknesses
  • Competitive strategies and how to compete
  • Managing the customers’ perception
  • Finding sustainable, profitable, competitive differential-advantage
  • Analysing key success factors and capabilities
Day Four: Setting Objectives and Product Marketing Strategies
  • Setting objectives and defining product strategy
  • Defining target segments, customers and stakeholders
  • Defining priority, importance, journey and tasks
  • Creating the right product marketing mix
  • Developing and managing the product portfolio - Innovation
  • Discovering value and creating value propositions
  • Value models that support price
Day Five: Designing the Communications, Managing the Channel, Implementing and Controlling the Plan
  • Directing the communications to customers and stakeholders
  • Briefing the marketing communications team
  • Winning support from the sales force
  • Managing channel partners
  • Implementing and controlling the plan
  • Verifying the plan