Affiliate Marketing

Job Description

Overview:

New affiliate recruitment and the development of existing affiliate relationships.

Provide “first point of contact” service for all affiliates.

Speculative Duties:

• Source, evaluate and recruit new affiliate partners.
• Develop and maintain relationships with existing gaming affiliates.
• Accountable for delivering effective affiliate marketing activity for all or parts of the interactive business.
• Working with the Head of Affiliates, recommending plans for affiliate marketing activity for the business through the budget/forecast process.
• Provide first point of contact to service all affiliates.
• Ensure that all campaigns and activity are in line with brand values.
• Utilize CRM system to optimize affiliate marketing communications and effectiveness. Ensure that promotional pages, reviews, bonus codes, etc. are up to date.
• Collaborate with brand team to deliver creative assets to optimize affiliate marketing opportunities and conversion rates.
• Perform competitive analysis and stay up to date with the events in the gaming affiliate spectrum.
• Deliver clear, concise and reliable reporting on all activity to key stakeholders.
• Maintain full awareness and understanding of appropriate legislation and best practice for affiliate marketing and ensure all media activity is approved.
• Attend significant Affiliate marketing forums and events (where appropriate) to strengthen existing and build new relationships.

Required Skills:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Previous experience of working in an affiliate team, either agency or client side
• 2+ years experience in managing gaming affiliate relationships.
• Thorough understanding of gaming affiliate marketing.
• Proven track record in sales with strong negotiation skills.
• Analytical thinking and good understanding or profit/loss and ROI.
• A Good working knowledge of website creative techniques and user experience required; technical skills (e.g. HTML, JAVA) preferred but not required.
• Ability to communicate well with people at all levels of the business and develop strong working relationships with internal and 3rd party service providers

Additional Skills:

• Motivated and a self-starter.
• Eager to learn.
• Excellent interpersonal skills both to work with affiliates and within the team.

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