Affiliate Senior Account Executive

Mindshare is a media services company that accelerates Good Growth for its clients. Our company values of energy, empathy and impact bind together our diverse global family of 10,000 people from every culture and with every specialist skill you can imagine. People at Mindshare create ideas and solutions that help not only our clients, but also the industry and the world.

At Mindshare Worldwide, we offer a competitive salary package, with 25 days holiday increasing with service to a maximum of 30 days, with the option to buy an extra 5 days per year. We also have an enhanced pension scheme, Bupa healthcare, a monthly wellbeing fund and early finishes on a Friday during summer. These are just some of the great benefits we offer. Based ten minutes from London Bridge tube station, our office has a rooftop with 360 views of London – a great space to hang out with colleagues and friends! We also offer an extensive training programme to help guide your career development, there’s a wide range of options to suit everyone at all levels of your career.

Our new values, of Energy, Empathy and Impact not only align with our Good Growth ambition but represent our commitment and dedication to our people, helping them grow their careers, fostering creativity, embracing humanity, and changing the world. At Mindshare we are open to difference. We believe in being open and supportive of our people and all their differences to help them succeed. Be different at Mindshare and use your difference to shape the world through media.

We’re looking for a smart, numbers-driven, and friendly individual to join our ever-growing team. This is a junior level position to join an award-winning affiliate team as an Affiliate Senior Account Executive. You will get to work across multiple brand names under the guidance of some of the smartest people working in digital, with a great foundation of media knowledge that will serve you for the rest of your career. You don’t need to have deep understanding of media or advertising at this point. We’re looking for someone who has the potential to be our performance media star of the future; a good attitude, a real interest in advertising and digital, and experience studying or working in a fast-paced and intellectually challenging environment are the core requirements. A degree is preferable, but not a prerequisite for this role.

The Ideal Candidate

• Analytically minded, with the ability to identify trends within data sets
• Highly organised, with strong attention to detail and time management skills
• Able to communicate effectively, and work as part of a team
• A can-do attitude, a desire to grow and ambition to achieve are KEY
• Committed to deliver high levels of service within appropriate time frames
• Seeks ownership and readily accepts accountability
• Strong ability to prioritise their time

Essential Criteria

• Experience using basic features of PowerPoint, Outlook and Excel (e.g. Creating and formatting presentations, sorting and filtering data, creating graphs and tables)
• You have a genuine interest in digital media with a penchant towards performance partnerships
• You can think about the numbers and are interested in data. You’ll be able to give some examples of where you’ve used large datasets.
• You can explain your ideas effectively. You’re a good talker who can get people on-board with your ideas or make a strong reasoned argument where you disagree.
• Have a pre-understanding of affiliate marketing or have worked previously within the industry

Desirable Criteria

• Any native level languages as this is always useful in the team
• Degree in Media

Responsibilities

• Learn to identify partner opportunities and submit to your client/channel teams to review
• Understand what your client’s key performance indicators (KPI) are and how best to achieve these
• Become confident and proficient in the systems and tools you use to eventually make grounded performance recommendations
• Identify the optimisation levers available to improve performance to meet your client’s KPIs
• Understand the approach to preparing a media plan in response to a client’s brief and working with the Account Manager to do so
• Deliver client reporting and analyse campaign results with a view to developing actionable insights
• Assisting the Account Manager with day to day internal duties and assisting with client requests