Affiliate Marketing Manager

Tired of all the job postings that basically require you to already be... A super ninja rockstar self-starter guru with 86 years of direct experience

Yeah, we’re tired of that too.

We’re not trying to hire Sarah Blakely, Jeff Bezos or Kanye West.

So let’s be real here. We need someone solid.

And we’re trying to hire you.  And you can work remotely!

You wouldn’t be reading this if you weren’t a strategy-focused master communicator and, let’s face it, an occasional cat herder.

(Chess & Scrabble > Checkers & Word Finds, am I right?)

Because that’s who we’re looking for.

So are data-driven presentations, managing relationships, building extra nerdy Gantt charts and leading productive meetings some of your love languages?

If this sounds like you, have we got a job for you.

WIIFM?

Are you ready to shift your career into overdrive through driving next-level paid media strategies for multiple growing brands and helping lead an integrated media team across multiple channels? If that sounds good to you, you’re in for quite a ride. Buckle up, friend!

The affiliate manager is responsible for planning, optimizing, and reporting on programs to meet and surpass the clients’ success metrics, both internal and external, while also supporting the internal RMI team where needed with other projects and planning. Ideally the candidate will understand the fundamentals of Affiliate Marketing and the different platforms associated with it.

Requirements:

• Owns all aspects of Program management from the initial planning, vendor relationships, utilization of 3rd party tools/resources, to building out reporting templates and optimizations.
• Manage vendor relationships and lead regular calls with organized agendas.
• Manages monthly budgets, effectively optimizing for performance.
• Generate more profitable production out of existing vendors.
• Actively seek out new vendors and generate profitable production.
• Create, manage, summarize and present performance reports based on KPIs and success metrics on a regular cadence to help drive data-informed decisions.
• Distill data into actionable insights that can drive improvements. 
• Review performance using internal and external reporting and analytics tools.
• Manage technical aspects of linking, tracking, and record-keeping of affiliate relationships.
• Responsible for billing reconciliation management and issuing monthly performance reporting to external vendors.
• Consistently innovate, explore, learn, test, execute and iterate.
• Willingness to learn and explore new media channels, methods of execution and optimization to drive the best performance for both the clients and RMI.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Strong communication and presentation skills and comfortability with larger groups over virtual environments.
• 3+ years of experience growing leads and revenue through affiliate marketing, vendor relationships, etc.
• Experience managing or operating search, display and programmatic campaigns a plus but not required.
• High level of proficiency with data and reporting tools (Excel, PowerPoint, DOMO; experience with CAKE or other affiliate management software preferred).
• Fast learning, and strong collaboration skills with eagerness to learn and share learnings with others.
• Strong project management and organization skills.
• Ability to gain buy in from a diverse group of business partners and stakeholders.

​The above declarations are not intended to be an “all-inclusive” list of duties and responsibilities of the job described, nor are they intended to be such a listing of the skills and abilities required to do thejob. Rather, they are intended only to describe the general nature of the job and be a reasonablerepresentation of its activities.

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