ONLINE COURSE & CERTIFICATION
Ecommerce Management Course
DIGITAL STRATEGY, FINANCIAL PLANNING & CONTROLLING, ECOMMERCE STORE MANAGEMENT, OPERATIONS & MORE. Discover the program.
Fashion Ecommerce Management Course & Certification
Specifically designed & created by leading fashion professionals.
Ecommerce Management Course & certification, designed and delivered by fashion and luxury professionals from leading fashion companies.
E-commerce Course Overview
Fashion ecommerce online course with certification. Flexible online course with live virtual classrooms, workshops and on-demand video lessons.
This ecommerce course explores all the value chain activities of fashion e-commerce, from strategic planning to day to day ecommerce store management.
This fashion digital marketing course is designed and delivered by leading fashion ecommerce professionals who work in international brands and retailers.
The E-commerce Strategy & Organisation Course will provide you with hands-on skills and deep understanding of fashion ecommerce processes and tools.
The course methodoly is based on learning Goals, KPIs, Tools, Best Practices and Case studies from senior managers. And then you’ll consolidate the learnings with exercizes, quizzes and workshops. The teachers will provide feedback and guidance on your work.
You’ll learn how to make a fashion e-commerce business successful, acquiring insider knowledge and experience to manage a fashion ecommerce in the real world.
Fashion Ecommerce Management Course Learning Outcomes
By the end of this fashion marketing course online, you will have a solid understanding of all ecommerce management processes and tools utilized fashion brands and etailers.
✔ Gain a comprehensive understanding of fashion ecommerce sales drivers and business rules with a focus on strategy, organisation and financial performance
✔ You’ll develop a deep knowledge of metrics, KPIs and techniques to define goals and monitor ecommerce teams performance to reach your financial goals
✔ Develop expertise in organising, leading and coordinating ecommerce teams
✔ Acquire a practical & workable knowledge of fashion e-commerce store management, buying and merchandising, marketplaces strategy and management, operations & logistics, and customer relationship management (CRM)
✔ Attain knowledge and understanding of the up-to-date digital tools used by senior fashion professionals for ecommerce management
✔ Obtain the Ecommerce Certification for Fashion & Luxury to fast-track your career
KEY FACTS
DELIVERY FORMAT
⇢ Online On-demand
⇢ Study flexibly
⇢ Cohort
⇢ Language: English
⇢ Subtitles: English and Italian
COURSE DURATION
⇢ 60 Hours (25 weeks)
⇢ 45 Hours Lessons
⇢ 15 Hours Practice
NEXT START DATE
⇢ February 5th 2025
FEES
⇢ €1,800 €1,550
⇢ $1,800 $1,550 Early bird
CERTIFICATION
⇢ Fashion Ecommerce Strategy & Organisation
⇢ Exam fee included
COMMITMENT
⇢ 2.5 hours per week
How to participate in the ecommerce course
Flexible ecommerce training: take this course wherever you are
- Self-paced on-demand lessons with live online touch base events via Zoom
- You should be prepared to dedicate around 2.5 hours per week to this course
- The course will run from March until June
- Over 13 weeks you’ll have access to approximately 45 hours of lessons
- The live lessons will be recorded and always available on-demand for reviewing even outside of class hours
- You can engage remotely with teachers and colleagues through our platform
Who is this ecommerce course for?
This course is for fashion professionals who need to acquire hands-on ecommerce skills to manage the ecommerce business in fashion brands and retail companies.
Benefits of the ecommerce training:
✔ Graduates who want or need to start working in the digital department of a fashion company. Learn how a fashion e-commerce works and career opportunities.
✔ Junior professionals acquire a broader set of skills, be more effective in your job, fast-your career. Acquire hands-on skills essential for e-commerce management: Strategic Planning, Finance, Operations, Analytics and Store Management.
✔ Mid-to-senior managers update and expand your skills, develop a deep understanding of the critical success factors for fashion ecommerce. If you work in a specific department you’ll have the chance to learn the whole activities of the E-commerce Value Chain and how it determines the success of e-commerce.
✔ Digital Agencies / System Integrators will acquire the essential skills to work best with Fashion Brands and E-tailers. Understand how their organisation, processes and KPIs
✔ Fashion Professionals, Head of Departments, CXOs coming from the traditional Bricks and Mortar side of business who need to quickly acquire a working understanding of e-commerce success factors, organisation and processes.
PROGRAM
E-commerce Course Lessons
Fashion E-commerce Strategy & Organisation
- Introduction to the Fashion Industry & Digital Business
- Fashion business models, market structure, sales channels, brand positioning and product lifecycle
- E-commerce Processes & Organisation
- Lifecycle of Ecommerce management processes
- Ecommerce Store Management
- E-commerce Strategy & Planning: Ecommerce Value Chain, and discuss key KPIs and financial metrics.
- Digital Fashion Business trends, trend analysis, forecasting, benchmarking
- Strategic planning, goal-setting, management best practices, task prioritisation, roadmapping and project planning planning
- Demand Generation, Ecommerce Budgeting, traffic growth, and conversion rates.
- Essential Financial Processes and Financial KPIs for Fashion Ecommerce: learn to read and control every line and of Profit & Loss of ecommerce to steer the wheel towards profitability and growth.
- Learn budgeting and forecasting processes used by fashion brands for ecommerce and other channels.
- Learn how to cost control through examples and practical exercises
E-commerce Operations & Logistics Management
- Organise, coordinate and oversee e-commerce operations
- logistics management, shipping and online payments.
- Customer Service: role of customer service in fashion Ecommerce, tools and KPIs
- effectively manage customer inquiries – pre and post sale, handle returns, and resolve issues to enhance the overall shopping experience
- strategies for maintaining customer satisfaction, building brand loyalty, and using feedback to improve service
- IT and AI applications to manage the relationship with the customers
- integration with applications such as ERP, CRM, Ticketing Systems
Online Store Management
- Implement a Commercial Plan for your e-commerce
- Manage the Buying and Merchandising processes,
- Manage a fashion E-commerce website, design and optimise the user experience for conversion and customer satisfaction,
- Track sales and performance of your online store
- Customer Relationship Management
- Strategies and techniques to create customer satisfaction and loyalty.
- Strategic and technological aspects of CRM.
- Leverage email marketing programs to drive new sales, cross-sell, upsell, generate loyalty and collect customer’s feedback.
- Email Marketing: the fundamentals of email marketing tailored specifically for fashion businesses.
- Craft compelling email campaigns that resonate with your audience segments, drive engagement, and boost sales.
- Audience segmentation, personalisation, and effective design strategies and KPIs to measure and monitor performance.
Marketplaces & Internationalisation
- Learn how to leverage different digital sales channel in different markets, we’ll analyse the success criteria for cross border e-commerce management
- Explore the requirements, strategies and organisation for digital trading in foreign markets such as the Far East, Middle East and Africa.
- Learn about Marketplaces and other relevant digital sales channels; how to satisfy local markets customers via localisation and optimisation of the websites for cultural differences.
Analytics and Business Intelligence
- Acquire an overview of the KPIs utilised by fashion companies to track performance of digital channels and learn how to use some of the analytics tools utilised by fashion companies for analysing performance of digital campaigns.
- We will also look at the most recent Artificial Intelligence platforms used for predictive analytics.
Technology for Fashion Ecommerce
- Gain an overview and understanding of the E-commerce platforms such as Adobe Commerce, Shopify and Salesforce.
- Learn about other applications adopted by fashion brands for their e-commerce infrastructures such as Marketing Technology tools,
- Product Information & Asset Management, Order Management Systems & AI Applications. Explore Omnichannel Ecommerce Processes including Digital in store applications and Omnichannel customer care.
The ecommerce course is structured in several modules. Some of the modules can be purchased and attended individually. To have more detailed information about this course
Meet your instructors
Meet the Managers who contributed to this Fashion Ecommerce Course
Experience the unique opportunity of attending an ecommerce training with senior fashion & luxury professionals who are actively working in leading fashion brands. Our teachers are all experts who practice every day the ecommerce strategies and techniques they teach. This online ecommerce course it’s unique in this regards as it will allow you to access a wide range of experts connecting remotly. These experts bring a wealth of experience from renowned fashion and luxury brands, leading agencies servicing the fashion and luxury sector, and global technology players dedicated to providing innovative solutions for fashion brands.
Enrico Fantaguzzi
Co-founder DFA and Digital Business Advisor
Enrico Roselli
Co-founder DFA and Sr. Advisor
Enrico Fantaguzzi
Co-founder DFA and Digital Business Advisor
Ilaria Sartorato
Digital Retail Manager
@ FiloBlu
Marcello Messina
Worldwide Head of E-Business @ TOD’S
Online Sales, Omnichannel, Customer Engagement
Filippo Chiari
Senior Director – Global Analytics & Insights @ VF Corporation, AI Advisor
Gianluigi Zarantonello
WW Director of Digital Solutions at Valentino Innovation and Digital Transformation Executive, author and blogger
Elisa Elena Franzoso
Ecommerce Store Manager @Filoblu
Andrea Dell’Olio, Head of Marketplaces, at Boggi Milano
Leonardo Pecchioli, Chairman Of The Board at
Keros Digital SA, ex KPMG Audit, CFO at Guess Europe
Giulia Rosetti, Marketing and Digital Director at EssilorLuxottica Optical Retail
Lorenzo Bortolotto, Principal Technical & AI Advisor, Solution Architect at Arsenalia
Gilles Gaucher-Cazalis, C-Level Executive | CFO | EMBA
Ivan Saladino, CRM & Marketing Automation Manager at Golden Goose
Mauro Lorenzutti, CTO Webformat, eCommerce, B2C & B2B
Raffaele Nardo, Chief Digital Officer at Dsquared2
Marco Di Pietro, Entrepreneur, Strategic Advisor formerly Director of Operations at Yoox.
Marco Porcellana, Co-founder and CEO at Nosetta
Maddalena Beltrami, Global CRM and Client Service Director at Golden Goose
Iacopo Pecchi, CEO at Marketplace Generation
E-commerce certification
Get your fashion certification with this ecommerce course online
Obtaining a fashion certification will help you to stand out in the fashion professionals industry and will help you to improve your career. This ecommerce course online offers you the opportunity to certify your skills and become a certified Digital Fashion Professional. We have developed our certification exams in collaboration with Fashion brands, Digital Professionals, Agencies and Associations.
DFA Certificates and Digital Badges are a recognition of the effort and dedication you’ll put into this significant journey, verifying your knowledge and new skill set.
You can share it with the world through your social profiles and have the opportunity to showcase your involvement to potential employers, friends, and family.
The exam fee is included in the enrolment fee for students.
A course with a holistic view of Fashion Ecommerce
The Digital Fashion Academy Competence Model represents the set of skills that are considered essential to fashion digital business management.
This e-commerce course focuses on the skills that are relevant to work in Fashion and Luxury Ecommerce teams (see items in colour) and they are divided in Core Management skills in the center and vertical skills, or specialisation skills, in the outer ring
Core Management skills: Fashion, Management, E-commerce
Vertical Skills: Sales & Retail, Buying & Merchandising, Logistics, Digital Photography, Customer Experience, Content Production
Whether you’re a dedicated specialist in a specific department (such as visual merchandising, operations, or store management) or tasked with coordinating an ecommerce team, this program equips you with the knowledge necessary to excel in these roles.
Digital Fashion Academy competence model © 2023
Who’s the fashion ecommerce course for
The fashion ecommerce course aims at providing you with practical 360° knowledge of ecommerce management for fashion.
You’ll be benefit from this course if you are actively involved in managing a fashion ecommerce online store in one of the following roles:
- Ecommerce Team Manager: This individual oversees the entire eCommerce strategy, including product development, marketing, customer service, and operations. They ensure the brand’s online presence is consistent with its overall brand identity and drives sales growth.
- Ecommerce Store Manager: Responsible for managing and executing the day-to-day operations of the eCommerce platform, including product listings, pricing, promotions, and customer support. This person ensures the website is user-friendly and optimized for conversions.
- Entreprenuer: You are in charge of you own ecommerce store or you are coordinating external suppliers such as marketing agencies, system integrators, 3PLs external logistics, outsourced customer service and so on.
- Managing director: as the ultimate responsible for company P&L you want to understand in detail how ecommerce can bring value to the company.
Career in fashion ecommerce
The fashion industry is rapidly embracing digital and eCommerce channels, creating a surge in demand for professionals with expertise in these domains. By attending the Fashion E-commerce Management Course and obtaining the Ecommerce Certificate for Fashion & Luxurt you’ll gain the skills required for the most sought-after profiles in the fashion industry for Digital and eCommerce management. You’ll acquire in-depth knowledge from senior professionals who will explain real success stories from fashion & luxury global companies, empowering you to optimize operations, enhance customer experiences, and contribute significantly to your company’s success.
By delving into the fundamentals of the ecommerce value chain, you’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of the interconnected processes that bring fashion products from concept to customer’s doorstep.
Here below some examples of roles & profiles that are in line for this course of studies:
- Head of Ecommerce: This individual oversees the entire eCommerce strategy, including product development, marketing, customer service, and operations. They ensure the brand’s online presence is consistent with its overall brand identity and drives sales growth.
- Ecommerce Store Manager: Responsible for managing and executing the day-to-day operations of the eCommerce platform, including product listings, pricing, promotions, and customer support. This person ensures the website is user-friendly and optimized for conversions.
- Ecommerce Project Manager & Program Manager: Oversees and manages eCommerce projects, from concept to launch. They ensure projects are completed on time, within budget, and to the highest quality standards.
- Ecommerce Operations Specialist and Coordinator: Manages the logistics of eCommerce orders, including fulfillment, shipping, and returns. They ensure orders are processed efficiently and delivered to customers on time. Oversees and Coordinate Customer Services. Manages the payments providers.
Enrol with early bird offer
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Price from January 1st 2025 $1,800
Early bird offer; $1,550
Our partners
We partner with Fashion companies and agencies who specialise in the Fashion and Luxury industry.
What our students say
Great Course
“Great Digital Fashion course, covering all the digital pillars of a fashion company, such as finance, marketing, logistics, CRM… and highly qualified teachers with years of experience in fashion market.”
Benedetto, Digital Marketing Manager at North Sails
Recommended
“I recommend this course to all interested in pursuing a career in digital and those who already occupy managerial positions, both for the variety of topics covered and for updating on the latest tools.”
Martina, Ecommerce Merchandising Specialist at Gucci
Rich and Complete
“For those who want to deepen and enrich their skills and knowledge, the ecommerce management course was rich, complete, suitable both for those who are approaching the digital world and for those who area already part of it”
Gabriella, Ecommerce Manager at Kocca
Need more info?
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FAQs
Yes, all virtual classrooms will be recorded and available to watch on the platform.
Yes, there are several scholarships available. If you are interested in a scholarship, please apply here.
Yes. Digital Fashion Academy offers you the gain the ecommerce certification and become a certified Digital Fashion Professional. We have developed this certification exam in collaboration with Fashion brands, Digital Professionals, Agencies and Associations.
Yes, you will develop a portfolio, you will work on developing a strategy for ecommerce and carry out analysis based on real case studies that you can use in your portfolio. Contact us for more information on this.
The attendance is flexible, it is possible to carry out the training in your own time. If you cannot attend the virtual classrooms and workshops, you can do the exercises in your own time but you should delivering the work according to the schedule.
The lessons are available in English and Italian.
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