Affiliate - Account Executive

Affiliate Executive

Overview of role

The Affiliate Executive’s role is to assist the Account Manager in the day to day running of the client Affiliate programmes within the team. This includes supporting team members to complete day to day affiliate tasks as well as provide reports in a timely fashion as set out by the Affiliate Manager.

The role of an Affiliate Executive also requires running their own client accounts, where they will apply their learnings from the other accounts where they support more senior members of the team.

The skills required for this role are: strong attention to detail, organisation skills, proficient Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills, the ability to work to multiple deadlines, and communicate effectively with different members of the team. Relationship building is an essential part of the Affiliate Executive’s role, and the candidate will be expected to build relationships with 3rd parties via phone, email and face to face.

The Affiliate Assistant will be expected to have a basic understanding of the affiliate industry and will be given training across various disciplines of digital marketing as part of the role.

Reporting of the role

The role reports to the Affiliate Account Manager.

3 best things about the job

1. Becoming part of an award-winning team working on household name client accounts.
2. Delivering best in class affiliate programme management across a variety of market segments and territories.
3. Outstanding opportunities for personal and professional growth including access to affiliate guest speakers and dedicated Network workshops hosted at our offices.

Measures of success

In three months, you would have:

• Gained a solid understanding of the basics of Affiliate Marketing.
• Built strong relationships with your clients, peers, network contacts and affiliate suppliers.

In six months, you would have:

• Confidently negotiated exposure packages with affiliate suppliers which delivers the best possible return on investment for your clients.
• Developed a strong understanding of how the affiliate channel interacts with other digital channels.

In 12 months, you would have:

• Delivered brilliant results for your clients to meet their individual business goals.

Responsibilities of the role

Business Responsibilities – Account Management

• Ensure the Senior Executive and Account Manager are informed on the status of their campaigns and any work completed in a timely and frequent manner.
• Liaising within their client team to suggest new approaches and tactics to continually improve campaign performance to suggest to clients and Client Planning teams.
• Completing campaign administration including sale validations and affiliate approvals as tasked by the Account Manager, ensuring it is completed following the EssenceMediacom best practice.
• Regularly update clients around campaign performance and areas of focus for their accounts each week.

Billing and Budgeting

• Reviewing spend performance against forecast budget and highlighting any budget discrepancies.
• Support the Account Manager to provide all month end spend figures to the relevant individuals in line with agreed deadlines.
• Creation of media plans against a client budget and negotiation of spend vs exposure packages to secure the best return on investment for clients.

People Responsibilities:

• Ability to manage own workload effectively and efficiently.
• Working as part of a close-knit team and supporting other team members where required.
• Building effective working relationships across the digital teams in the agency as a whole.
• Creating rapport with all stakeholders by being approachable and understanding the best approach for success for each client.

What you will need

• The ideal candidate would be a self-starter who actively wants to be a part of an exciting growing team with extensive opportunity for personal growth.
• An active interest in Digital marketing.
• A commercially astute candidate ideally with a strong sales lead mentality.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to effectively communicate with colleagues and clients.
• Diligence and attention to detail in delivering against pre-agreed timescales.

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