Senior Affiliate Manager

Locations - London, Manchester or Corby. Join RS Group's high-performing EMEA Digital Marketing team and be part of our award-winning, data-driven marketing organisation. As a key player in our Performance Marketing team, you'll drive customer acquisition, retention, and revenue growth through strategic partnerships. With RS Group undergoing a digital transformation, this is an exciting opportunity to shape and scale a best-in-class affiliate programme, including sector comparison site engines.

The Senior Affiliate Manager will be responsible for leading RS's EMEA affiliate marketing strategy, managing the affiliate programme, and driving revenue growth through strong partnerships. This role includes direct line management of an Affiliate Account Manager, ensuring their development and success. Additionally, the Senior Affiliate Manager will work closely with key functions such as CRM, SEO, Paid Search, and eCommerce to ensure an integrated approach to performance marketing.

The successful candidate must be self-motivated, able to work autonomously, and adept at fostering collaboration across teams to maximise the effectiveness of RS's affiliate marketing efforts.

What you will be doing:

• Leading the Affiliate Strategy & Growth, developing and executing a comprehensive affiliate marketing strategy to drive incremental revenue and expand RS's EMEA affiliate programme.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with key affiliates, networks, and partners to optimise performance and drive engagement.
• Monitoring, analysing, and reporting on affiliate performance, leveraging data-driven insights to improve efficiency and ROI.
• Managing and developing the Affiliate Account Manager, providing guidance and support to maximise performance and career development.
• Collaborating closely with internal teams, including CRM, SEO, Paid Search, and eCommerce, to align affiliate marketing efforts with broader business and marketing objectives.
• Overseeing affiliate marketing budgets, ensuring cost-effectiveness and strong returns on investment.
• Ensuring all affiliate activities adhere to industry regulations, brand guidelines, and ethical marketing standards.
• Identifying new opportunities for growth, including exploring emerging affiliate models and testing innovative strategies.

What do I need to be successful?

• Self-Motivation & Autonomy: A highly self-motivated individual who can work autonomously, take initiative, and drive performance without constant supervision.
• Experience: Proven track record of managing and scaling affiliate programmes in a global or multi-market environment, ideally within eCommerce, or a performance-driven marketing role.
• Technical & Analytical Skills: Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data, optimise campaigns, and drive strategic decisions.
• Leadership & Stakeholder Management: Demonstrated experience in managing teams and working cross-functionally to drive business success.
• Commercial Acumen: Deep understanding of affiliate marketing commercial models, including CPA, CPL, and revenue-sharing agreements.
• Relationship Management: Excellent communication and negotiation skills to manage relationships with key affiliates, networks, and internal stakeholders.
• Digital Marketing Knowledge: Broad understanding of the digital marketing ecosystem, including paid media, SEO, and customer acquisition strategies.
• Tools & Platforms: Experience with affiliate platforms and tracking technologies (e.g., AWIN, Rakuten, Impact, Google Analytics, Power BI, Adobe Analytics, or similar tools).
• Strategic Mindset: Ability to develop and execute long-term strategic plans while maintaining a hands-on approach to daily operations.

What's in it for you?

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you'd expect from a FTSE listed company, including an annual performance bonus, private healthcare, and generous holiday, in the UK&I, we've just introduced several new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help for people to take control of ongoing health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation.
• Support for neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post-diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette's syndrome.
• Support for women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause.
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery.

We are RS Group. At RS we've been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the 'what ifs' into the 'why nots', the impossible into the possible. Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world. We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers. We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that's exactly how we partner with people - our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities - to solve problems. We'll also invest in your development and wellbeing - because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do. Come and join us and we'll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.