WHAT IS AN AFFILIATE MANAGER ?
The Affiliate Manager role focuses on transforming our platform from a comparison site to a comprehensive financial management solution. This position requires diverse skills including account management, analytical abilities, and a proactive approach to drive growth and innovation. The manager will engage with clients and partners to expand business opportunities, optimize revenue streams, and provide strategic insights in a fast-paced environment.
Need-to-Know Overview of an Affiliate Manager
1. Affiliate Manager Duties and Responsibilities
- Proactively work with clients and partners to grow account size and value
- Build and manage the relationship with stakeholders and partners in the region to be a trusted industry expert
- Grow partner revenue through optimization and new business strategies
- Provide direction on business priorities based on expected opportunity size
- Conduct deep-dive analysis at a partner or market level to explain the latest trends and changes
- Provide recommendations on how to improve revenue to partners and leadership team
- Support local teams on business development initiatives, campaigns and pitches
- Measure key results, including revenue, competitive and supply metrics
- Evaluate revenue risk for new strategies and initiatives and develop strategies to mitigate risks
- Analyze conversion rates and conversion drivers
2. Affiliate Manager Qualifications and Requirements
- Bachelor's in Business or quantitative discipline
- Minimum 4 years of experience in Account Management or Operations role with strong knowledge of the eCommerce and affiliate industry
- Strong communication skills, particularly in presenting complex quantitative analysis in targeted, easily understandable messaging
- Ability to interface & communicate with different internal and external stakeholders
- Proven experience in identifying growth opportunities, and driving the implementation of solutions to realise them
- Strong understanding of revenue drivers and commercial environment
- Demonstrated skills in understanding conversion drivers in an online environment
- Knowledge of statistics, and applying to commercial problem solving
- A proven track record of working on own initiative and an instinctive "can-do" attitude, with strong focus on delivering results
- Excellent ability to communicate and a structured approach to capture new leads and projects as well as assignments and to solve challenges
- Attention to detail to ensure nothing is overlooked and every little detail is thought about and executed perfectly
- Comfortable working with numerical skills, ideally has previous google analytics would be great
- Strong entrepreneurial spirit and passion
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