Key Partnerships Manager (Affiliate)

• As Key Partnerships Manager - Affiliate, you will lead the overall strategic relationship of a portfolio of our key merchant partners
• Your role will require a consultative approach to each of your highly valued partners to ensure that we are maximising their performance on our platform, whilst optimising revenue opportunities
• You will be responsible for building a creative and strategic market campaign and demonstrating a clear data-driven approach
• Reporting to: Head of Merchant Partnerships - Enterprise
• Own a portfolio of c.15 of our largest affiliate partnerships. You will be responsible for establishing best-in-class relationships and building bespoke strategies to deliver long-term success through a highly strategic and consultative approach
• Establish connections with key budget-holders and decision-makers within your brands - elevating our position to establish us as a key partner within their ecosystem
• Apply a creative approach to growing engagement and sales volume for your partners through the design of bespoke and intelligent marketing campaigns, using our advanced marketing automation platform
• Maximise commercial opportunities and revenues through negotiation of offer strength, frictionless user experience, commission rates and media spend
• Lead monthly business review & planning meetings with each of your partners to discuss performance and alignment on current and future actions
• Lead quarterly face-to-face business reviews where you will focus on insight and optimising the partnership through strategic discussions
• Monitor the performance of your partners and their marketing activity through interpretation of reports and analytics provided by our Analysis team
• Collaborate with our B2C Marketing team to design and deliver high-impact campaigns driving both performance and media investment from your portfolio
• Share key insights and strategies upwards into the business and highlight key learnings to your peer group for application across our wider portfolio
• Represent RGER at leading affiliate industry events to support wider networking opportunities, including various speaking positions

Benefits

• Life assurance
• Pension/401K
• Debt support programme & salary advances
• Bonus for referring a friend who we hire and have completed 3 months’ service
• Employee Share Plan
• Discounts to share with friends and family
• Gender neutral parental leave for primary and secondary carers
• Volunteer days plus a day of leave to Speak Up and be the change you want to see in the world
• Unlimited free books for your professional development and one fiction book per month to help you unwind
• Family support - Baby Bonus, caregiver support, domestic violence protection programme, parent support loan, miscarriage and baby loss support, wedding bonus and up to 3 months paid leave to take care of your family
• Up to 6 months unpaid leave after five years’ service
• Unlimited time off to give blood
• Employee assistance programme
• Work from home bundles
• Flexible working
• Trans & gender affirmation support
• Health benefits such as free eye tests, free flu jab, freedom from addiction, menopause support, stop smoking assistance programme and health cash plan
• Personal wellbeing allowance, personal wellbeing coach, run club, spa and gym discounts, plus cycle to work scheme
• Bring your dog to work, drinks and breakfast- Understanding of the affiliate industry and tracking & attribution models
• Extensive experience building mutually beneficial and commercially-driven partnerships in the affiliate channel at a senior level
• Comfortable interpreting and presenting basic performance and campaign data
• Proven track record to bring an inventive approach to B2C marketing to drive performance
• Strong networking skills, and an ability to gain the interest and attention of senior executives and business leaders
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple relationships and, at times, competing priorities
• Ability to build rapport and connections with your immediate and wider teams to share best practice, build efficient processes and maximise our business results
• Strong commercial acumen with proven ability to demonstrate a consultative approach to sales
• Track record of building long-term, strategic relationships with experience in handling difficult situations and negotiations
• Strong presentation skills to present to both an internal and external audience- Screening call with a member of the Talent Acquisition Team
• First stage interview with Head of Merchant Partnerships - Enterprise
• Task assessment and final interview with UK Merchant Director and Head of Merchant Partnerships - Enterprise