Affiliate Campaign Assistant

Your role as an Affiliate Campaign Assistant involves driving commercial relationships with key affiliate networks and partners to boost revenue, margins, and efficiencies—ensuring our content works as hard as possible. You will be a proactive member of the team, bringing project management skills, a keen eye for commercial negotiations, and an understanding of contract work to help grow the partnership strategy within the ecommerce and affiliates space.

Day to day you will:

• Support the Affiliates Lead in managing partner relationships and providing daily operational and administrative assistance.
• Conduct market research to identify high-potential affiliates and assist with initial outreach and onboarding.
• Generate Insertion Orders (IOs) and set up amplification levers and traffic drivers to maximise partnership visibility.
• Track, analyse, and communicate key quantitative metrics and business trends relative to partner performance.
• Deliver efficient weekly and monthly reporting across all publications, providing recommendations for future activity based on campaign results.
• Optimise key partnerships continuously to ensure the team consistently hits revenue targets.
• Control the end-to-end invoicing and billing process for all affiliate partners.
• Share knowledge on industry trends, competitor activity, and innovations to identify new opportunities within the affiliate space.

What we're looking for from you:

• A solid understanding of the affiliate landscape, including publishers, merchants, and networks.
• Comprehensive knowledge of GDPR and the ability to apply these regulations to protect our audience and business.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret the underlying economic metrics involved in affiliate partnerships.
• Strong motivation to work towards and exceed revenue targets.
• Demonstrated ability in sales and account management with a natural talent for negotiation.
• Effective organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks in a fast-paced environment.
• Confidence in executing detailed reports and navigating Excel to derive insights.
• Excellent presentation skills, including the ability to build compelling slide decks from scratch to tell a story.

If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone’s potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.

Some of our benefits include:

• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions.
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes.
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme.
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books.
• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks.
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times.
• Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities.
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling.
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%.
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year.

We are committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process. If you require reasonable adjustments due to a disability or health condition at any stage of your application or interview, please let us know. You can contact us at careers@news.co.uk to discuss how we can support you to perform at your best.