Affiliate Marketing Manager

Essential duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

New Business Development – drive traffic, analyze results, adjust advertising and landing pages. Growth is the number one goal.   Ensure acquisition growth through acquiring new players and clients.
Analyze all acquisition activities to find out what to stop and where to push resources.
Take responsibility for the performance of the Affiliate team.
Provide oversight, guidance and leadership to the team.
Recruit new qualified affiliates on a global basis to deliver on new account goals.
Reactivating a dormant base of affiliates in the program.
Develop and successfully negotiate commercial agreements with affiliates.
Plan and organize promotions that encourage affiliates to generate acquisitions.
Successfully negotiate and conclude positioning agreements with affiliates.
Selection and briefing of appropriate creative.
Co-ordination of back-end fulfillment with other departments.
Measurement of affiliate performance by monitoring key metrics such as customers acquired, cost per acquisition, deal break evens and overall revenue generated.
Maximise affiliate performance based on measurements, through changes to creative, positioning, price, etc.
Networking and attendance at international conferences.
Liaise, organize and provide input into stand designs.
Attend networking opportunities.
Manage the team attending the conference.
Building and improving processes, systems, and features to support business growth in acquiring new online affiliates.
Account managing a portfolio of existing affiliate partners to maximize revenue generation.
Nurture existing affiliates to deliver incremental revenue.
Ensure affiliate payments happen timeously and correctly.
Ensure the affiliate program website is up to date and improved.

Key Skills
Ability to design and implement strategies for global markets.
Ability to operate at both a strategic and operational level and manage a high level of complexity.
Excellent business acumen and commercially savvy.
Proven ability to collaborate and work across business divisions.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Numeric and analytical abilities.
Comfortable with risk-taking.
Target Driven.
Ability to work well under pressure.