About the Sector
The marketing industry is growing globally, and digital media predominate. Representing 55% of all advertising spend today, digital advertising spend is expected to grow 64% (US$542 billion) of all advertising spend by 2024 with most jobs in the digital domain. In Singapore, the sector employs almost 50,000 marketing professionals with the majority residing with brand owners. Career opportunities exist beyond a single domain as marketing talent is fungible across all players (i.e Brand owner, Marketing agency, Publisher and Marketing technology provider) in the ecosystem.
About the Programme
The Career Conversion Programme (CCP) for Digital Advertising and Marketing Professionals aims to equip mid-career individuals with the necessary digital marketing skillsets over a period of 6 months through an on-the-job training (OJT) to take on one of the following marketing roles.
Job families
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Roles[1]
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Skillsets
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Brand development & management
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- Marketing Manager
- Category manager
- Brand manager
- Commercial manager
- Product development
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- Brand strategy
- Product innovations design (e.g. brand/product concepts)
- Communications strategy
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Consumer insights & market intelligence |
- Consumer and market insights specialists
- Planning and forecasting specialists
- Market intelligence specialists
- Performance marketing specialists
- UX research analysts
- Social media research specialists
- Content research analysts
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- Consumer insights, forecasting
- Social media research
- Direct channel planning
- Performance marketing
- User experience research
- Behavioural economics
- Technical cross-channel experience
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Customer experience & design / Innovation |
- Product manager
- Graphic designer
- Web designer
- 3D Visualisation artist
- Customer experience architect
- UX/UI designer
- Interaction designer
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- New technology capabilities such as AI, AR/VR
- Storytelling
- Business model innovation
- Digital product design
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Digital marketing |
- Digital marketing manager
- Digital campaign strategist
- Search Engine Optimiser analyst
- Social media marketer
- Digital marketing copywriter
- Digital media strategist
- Ecommerce specialist
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- Social media marketing
- Email marketing
- Content strategy
- Digital campaign strategy
- Search Engine Optimisation
- Programmatic buying
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Data management & analytics |
- Ecommerce data specialists
- Data strategists
- Marketing analytics managers
- Cloud specialists
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- Data analysis and reporting
- Data and database management
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[1] Job roles are non-exhaustive, please contact AAMS for clarification.