Affiliate Manager

We are looking for a talented and driven affiliate manager to rapidly grow our partner network to help us to support consumers right across the UK and USA. 

Your team:Situated within News UK’s commercial department (The Bridge), the Strategic Development team is tasked with driving revenue through expertise, thought leadership, and innovation whilst creating the foundations for future revenue streams. You will report into the Strategic Partnerships Lead and work closely with individuals from the team as well as key stakeholders from our businesses.

Your role: As Affiliates Manager, you’ll define and realise our affiliate strategy for The Sun, establishing and nurturing our affiliate network to ensure that our users can readily purchase the right products and services for them. You’ll be a commercially astute self-starter, who thrives as part of a tight team and essentially, you’ll be passionate about innovation and affiliates in ecommerce.

Day to day you will:

• Build the affiliate network identifying, negotiating, onboarding and nurturing relationships with direct affiliates and affiliate aggregators.
• Ensure our existing and new affiliate partners have a great experience working with The Sun with smooth in life processes from contract management to product development
• Work with the ecommerce writers to design and optimise ecommerce journeys to create a high quality user experience that best meets user and affiliate needs
• Manage and build on our existing tenancy and fixed cost content offering
• Routinely health check our existing publisher accounts on networks like AWIN, CJ, Rakuten, Partnerize, Impact, and ShareASale.
• Manage the affiliate portfolio to realise its full revenue potential
• Analyse affiliate performance providing insight for content optimisation and product strategy

What we’re looking for from you:

• A good understanding, and direct experience of the affiliate landscape: publishers, merchants, networks
• Direct experience working within the retail affiliate sector, with relevant industry contacts
• Proven experience of partner acquisition
• Highly commercial and with proven success in driving partner revenues
• Analytical skills with a firm understanding of affiliate and commercial metrics
• Sales and account management experience & excellent negotiation skills
• Experience in commercial contract management
• Excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise work effectively

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. 

News UK is one of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland. Our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local stations across Ireland. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning print and pixel, audio and video, events and experiences, our multi-format brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose, we exist to promote a fair society, freedom of speech and a little bit of fun. Rethinking continually the business of storytelling, we represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter.

Life at News

Driven by passion, guided by principles and acting with purpose. We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter. We inform our audiences so that they can make decisions based on trusted information.

To do this, we believe our employees must represent different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences. We strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategy, which focuses on three main priorities – attracting talent from a wider, more representative pool, developing equity programmes to drive better representation in our leadership, and ensuring diversity and inclusivity in our workforce as well as the journalism and content we produce. We also currently have 12 employee led networks and groups that support our strategy and connect like minded employees socially.

We offer a flexible working arrangement where employees are expected to be in the office a minimum of three days per week. For the remaining two days, there is the option to work remotely if desired.

Benefits

Some of our benefits include:

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
• 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%
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year

We want to ensure that everyone has the opportunity to perform to their best when applying for a role. If you would like to receive any information in a different way or for us to do anything differently to support you apply for any of our roles please contact us on careers@news.co.uk. 

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