This ready-to-use category strategy template offers editable frameworks for internal assessment and detailed industry and market category overviews to assist category managers, procurement professionals, and CPOs in creating an informed category strategy for marketing services.
Marketing services encompass marketing support, customer experience, content creation, campaign orchestration, media channels management, data analytics, and reporting. Enterprises are building a global marketing strategy by assessing capabilities to execute universal content creation and standardize campaign management that is assisted by digital transformation. Customer experience focused strategy for marketing has received high traction in the marketing services space across regions and industries.
Category managers can customize this template with internal category information, such as spend, suppliers, and subcategory overview. They can also use the industry and market insights provided in this template to build a strong supply base understanding. A category strategy’s goal is to create an action plan for effective category management, and this template provides the requisite tools, frameworks, and information to create a robust strategy. Best-in-class procurement organizations effectively leverage such tools and techniques to drive continuous improvements in their categories.
In this category strategy report, we offer comprehensive templates based on a four-step process to create a category strategy: