Higher Certificate in Export Management

Our Higher Certificate in Export Management is an IMM Qualification on NQF level 5 and is quality assured by the South African Council on Higher Education. You can complete this qualification in a year, but if life gets in the way, you have 4 years to wrap it up.

The past few years has seen a rapid growth in international trade in South Africa, which has been boosted by government support of this industry. This growth has generated massive demands for qualified and skilled professionals to administer exports processes for global businesses. Export executives fulfil various strategic functions such as pricing, sourcing, costing, distribution and freight marketing, to name but a few.

This qualification will give you a great entry point into the Export industry. With your introductory knowledge of export management and related marketing concepts, you can unlock doors for a successful future and career in international trade, supply chain management, exports or marketing.

Once you have completed this qualification you can continue your learning with IMM Graduate School and apply to do any one of our diploma or undergraduate degree programmes. Our BCom in Marketing and Management Science for example, now allows you to specialise in supply chain management.

There are eight learning outcomes in this programme:

• Demonstrate an elementary understanding of export administration, international trade, marketing, and business communication.

• Explain the typical methods and procedures involved in export management and marketing.

• Complete an elementary search for export opportunities and be able to apply the findings to marketing and supply chain opportunities/concepts.

• Collect and describe relevant export logistics data/information from a wide range of sources, and examine the information in terms of the functioning of an export and/or logistics company.

• Summarise and communicate export and marketing information for senior management.

• Identify and examine/solve elementary management problems in an export and/or logistics company and supply chain context.

• Discuss the importance of ethical behaviour in the field of export management and marketing, and base business decisions and actions on appropriate values.

• Illustrate the mastering of life-long learning skills in the dynamic field of exports and supply chain management, and the broad field of management.

This programme consists of seven modules and is structured as follows:

Core Modules

• Fundamentals of Marketing (20 credits)

• Academic Literacy (15 credits)

• Basics of Export Trade (20 credits)

• Fundamentals of Business Numeracy (20 credits)

• Fundamentals of Export Administration (20 credits)

• Fundamentals of Supply Chain Management (20 credits)

• Electives