About The Role
Job Title: Affiliates Executive
Salary: Competitive
Location: Hybrid working, with 3-4 visits to our Milton Keynes office per month and 1 day per month in our London office
Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 37.5 hours per week (9:00am - 5:30pm)
Job Status: Fixed-Term-Contract
At cinch our mission is simple - to remove the faff from buying and owning cars, giving customers more choice, with more ease (not to mention a free 90-day warranty on all cars...)
Already the UK’s largest online used car retailer, we’re expanding our offering with an exciting roadmap of online and physical retail solutions - including faff-free car servicing at over 100 locations across the country.
We’re part of Constellation Automotive Group - a family of brands that also includes We Buy Any Car, British Car Auctions (BCA) and Marshall Motor Group. Together, cinch and Marshall operate as Constellation Retail - bringing together 100+ years of motoring know-how at 130+ stores (Marshall) with a market-leading digital experience from a much-admired brand (cinch).
The road ahead for you is clear. Join us and you’ll get a unique opportunity to grow your career across two leading automotive brands that are really going places. Buckle up and enjoy the ride.
What you’ll be working on
- Developing and pro-actively managing a portfolio of affiliate partners
- Pro-actively acquire and retain new affiliates
- Establishing and maintaining strong partner relationships
- Negotiating and reviewing commercial agreements with all partners under their account management, supported by Head of Digital Marketing, liaising with Procurement, Legal and Data Protection/Infosec teams
- Monitoring, analysing and optimising the performance of all campaigns vs. KPI’s.
- Identifying new potential opportunities in the relevant product vertical
- Budget Management and In-Month Pacing – Responsible for managing and using the affiliates budget efficiently, also in pacing that spend throughout the month by monitoring daily spend and adjusting partner CPAs where needed
- Experience media planning, forecasting and budgeting to business KPIs.
- Ability to lean in and support across other digital channels (i.e. Paid Social & Display)
- Generating weekly/monthly business reporting and conducting financial reconciliation
- Owning & developing the Affiliate strategy for cinch with Head of Digital support
- Work with the Brand team to secure creative assets to support new campaigns/promotions
- Work with Data Engineering/Product on technical setups with third parties.
- Supporting the Head of Digital Marketing with ad hoc analysis for senior stakeholders & making key recommendations regarding strategy
- Conduct troubleshooting of issues mostly themselves and seek resolutions with appropriate teams, though blockers would be escalated to the Head of Digital
things we’d love to see
- Proven experience in an Affiliates role working on an ecommerce account (agency or in house)
- Contract negotiation experience and other process led onboarding (legal teams, Data protection/infosec, etc)
- Basic Affiliates network knowledge (platforms such as Awin, Webgains, CJ Affiliates)
- Has some exposure to other reporting stacks such as Adobe/Power BI/GA etc.
- Comfortable working with large data sets & in Microsoft Excel and able to use this data to analyse emerging trends and areas of opportunity
- Excellent external stakeholder management (i.e. publisher networks, direct third-party advertising agreements)
- A basic understanding of tracking technologies/techniques (tag based, server to server)
- A data-driven mindset and the ability to strategize with cross-functional teams; strong cross-functional relationship management skills
- Ability to work autonomously and problem solve with some support
- Strong presentation skills and able to converse with senior stakeholders and discuss data-related topics with ease and confidence
- Analytical and can evaluate performance of affiliate activities and make decision and provide insight for the wider team
- Excellent command of the English Language
- High attention to detail and the ability to effectively multi-task in a deadline driven atmosphere
cinch and Rewards
- Competitive salaries and bonuses
- A company pension scheme
- An Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to trained mental health first aiders
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
And so much more!
cinch and You
In making the most out of a career at cinch you need to be curious, creative, and collaborative. See, we are putting you in the driver’s seat, in control of your career and ready to drive your own development. There’s no bureaucracy, no hierarchy, just an environment with values that bring us together and a purpose that sets us apart. Join us as we continue to accelerate, defy expectations, and revolutionise an entire industry.
cinch and Diversity and Inclusion
cinch wants to help all kinds of people in the UK find and buy a car. So, it makes good sense to have all kinds of people working with us on the challenge. Conversations and the decisions they lead to are better for featuring different voices. Representation matters.
And doing your job while not being your authentic self is not faff-free. Being free to be the best of who you are as you soar to professional greatness is the kind of business we commit to creating, as one.
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