Program Overview

Executive Diploma in Strategic Pharmacy Business Management

Overview

The Executive Diploma in Strategic Pharmacy Business Management is a 6-month course designed to build and enhance the business capabilities of pharmacists and business owners. The program aims to equip learners with the skills required to succeed in the field of pharmacy retail strategy, including decision-making under uncertainty, strategy development, and trade-off analysis.

Programme Aims and Objectives

The primary objective of this program is to build and enhance the business capability of pharmacists and business owners as part of both the IPU’s and independent pharmacy strategic objectives for 2021 and into the future. The key objectives of the program are:

• Enable learners to critically evaluate and review relevant theories, concepts, frameworks, models, and key issues in the field of pharmacy retail strategy.
• Provide an overview of consumer’s decision-making processes, the influences upon consumers’ behavior in a broad sense, and their implications for marketing.
• Equip learners with an understanding of how market environments affect organizations' marketing strategies.
• Assist learners to understand the fundamentals of organizational behavior enabling them to appreciate the underpinning of professional management practices.
• Enable learners to develop skills to interpret retail data and express its value visually through the use of case studies and datasets.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the obligations and limitations imposed by the law on the operation of a retail business.
• Provide a framework from which students can analyze the issues involved in applied management practice through a retail business simulation.
• Explore how procurement and supply chain management can add value, enhance organizational performance, and be a source of sustainable competitive advantage to a retail organization.
• Provide learners with an understanding of the core objectives of financial management.

Timetable

The course is delivered over 6 months, with two full days of delivery per month between October and April from 10am-5pm on a Thursday and Friday (12 classes total).

Assessment

To meet the requirements of the Diploma in Strategic Pharmacy Business Management, a pharmacist will be required to complete continuous assessment for all subjects and a final project.

Programme Content

• Retail Pharmacy Business Strategy
• Organizational Behaviour in Retail Environment
• Pharmacy Retail Consumer Behaviour
• Legal issues and regulation in Retail
• Pharmacy Retail Marketing
• Category Management and Retail Purchasing
• Retail Management Simulation
• Business Intelligence and Data Visualization
• Finance for non-Financial Managers
• Leadership and Communication
• Capstone Project Preparation

Structure

The course provides a comprehensive knowledge on building and enhancing the business capabilities of pharmacists and business owners as part of both the IPU’s and independent pharmacy strategic objectives.

Career Progression Opportunities

• Invest in Multiple Pharmacy Businesses
• Acquiring Existing Pharmacies
• Opening a new Pharmacy
• Advance into senior management roles within the organisation
• Career progression

Student Profile

Students who would partake in this Diploma program would be trained and qualified pharmacists.

Fees

The fee for this course is €2,500 for IPU members, and €3,000 for non-IPU members. This is inclusive of tuition, registration, exam fees, and DBS library membership. This fee must be paid in full before the course begins.

Certification

Dublin Business School

Schedule

2 full days (consecutive) per month, 10am - 5pm

Next Intake

October 2025

Duration

6 months daytime delivery

Categories

• 6 Months
• Part-Time
• Business & Management
• Professional Diplomas