Job Description
Your role: As an Affiliate Executive, you will drive 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:
1. Support the Affiliates Lead in managing partner relationships and providing daily operational and administrative assistance.
2. Conduct market research to identify high-potential affiliates and assist with initial outreach and onboarding.
3. Generate Insertion Orders (IOs) and set up amplification levers and traffic drivers to maximise partnership visibility.
4. Track, analyse, and communicate key quantitative metrics and business trends relative to partner performance.
5. Deliver efficient weekly and monthly reporting across all publications, providing recommendations for future activity based on campaign results.
6. Optimise key partnerships continuously to ensure the team consistently hits revenue targets.
7. Control the end-to-end invoicing and billing process for all affiliate partners.
8. Share knowledge on industry trends, competitor activity, and innovations to identify new opportunities within the affiliate space.
What we're looking for from you:
9. A solid understanding of the affiliate landscape, including publishers, merchants, and networks.
10. Comprehensive knowledge of GDPR and the ability to apply these regulations to protect our audience and business.
11. Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret the underlying economic metrics involved in affiliate partnerships.
12. Strong motivation to work towards and exceed revenue targets.
13. Demonstrated ability in sales and account management with a natural talent for negotiation.
14. Effective organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks in a fast-paced environment.
15. Confidence in executing detailed reports and navigating Excel to derive insights.
16. 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.
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.
At News UK, we embrace a hybrid work model, currently requiring a minimum of three days per week in the office. This approach fosters collaboration, innovation, and team spirit within our workspace. Certain roles may necessitate additional in-office days; please discuss this with your recruiter for specific requirements.
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.
We represent, reflect and reach the nation, telling the stories that matter most. To ensure these stories resonate with as broad an audience as possible, it is essential that our organisation reflects the diversity of the people we reach. Whether through age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class or sexuality, we are committed to representing the rich variety of voices that make up our society. And we champion a culture where everyone has the opportunity to contribute and thrive as we continue to innovate and drive long term sustainable growth. This is done through our Diversity Strategy.
At News UK, we take pride in our exceptional employee-led networks that bring together individuals with shared interests and create a vibrant sense of community. We believe our networks play a vital role in fostering a collaborative and supportive work culture at News UK. Groups that we support include the African & Caribbean Network, Parents and Carers, and LGBTQ+ group News Is Out, and the Apprentice Society.
Benefits
Some of our benefits include:
17. Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions
18. Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly in person/ virtual exercise classes
19. ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme
20. Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books
21. Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks
22. 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
23. Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling
24. A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%
25. Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access
26. 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.
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