Affiliate Marketing Executive

The Opportunity
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our Ecommerce team supporting the rollout of Affiliate Marketing campaigns for Footasylum and our DTC websites. The role will require you to collaborate with the wider Ecommerce and Trading teams to deliver excellence across our affiliate marketing campaigns.

The Team
You will be supporting our Affiliate Marketing Manager on the Footasylum account, as well as overseeing our DTC brand accounts. You will also work closely with other inhouse DTC managers when collaboration and assistance is required from the Affiliate Marketing channel.

About You
You are a driven individual with a keen eye for detail and a passion for Affiliate Marketing best practices. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are comfortable managing campaigns and collaborating across the wider business.

What you will do:

• You will work closely with the Affiliate Marketing Manager to deliver our affiliate marketing strategy.
• You will be responsible for the planning, maintenance and communication of the affiliate marketing calendar.
• You will liaise with multiple teams, approving suitable products to be included on all featured marketing communications and making sure all activity is aligned with the wider marketing calendar.
• You will manage existing affiliate partnerships and assist in the development, implementation and maintenance of new partnership opportunities.
• You will be negotiating commercial terms and identifying opportunities for increased brand exposure.
• You will ensure all partner communications are accurate, consistent and delivered on time.
• You will negotiate paid placement opportunities, commission increases, and exclusive offers.
• You will plan in advanced seasonal campaigns and promotions.
• You will deliver weekly and monthly reporting providing insights for partner and promotional performance.
• You will embrace the value of "Defying Ordinary" by driving continued and relentless improvement and innovation within the Ecommerce department.

Skills you will need:

• Experience in using and presenting with Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• A keen eye for analysing data via various reporting platforms (Google Analytics, Fospha, Partnerize)
• Commercial awareness of the Affiliate Marketing Channel.
• Previous experience using an Affiliate Marketing platform.
• Strong communication skills to build and maintain relationships with Affiliate partners.
• Strong networking ability for external events.
• Internal coordination to work with other inhouse teams, such as Marketing and Creative design.
• Attention to detail, time management and adaptability to everchanging marketing and promotional landscapes.

Why Footasylum?

We are one of the leading omni-channel retailers across the UK, but more than that we are a brilliant place to work. We value you and your development. We have loads of examples of people moving upwards, across to other departments and given training to excel their personal and professional skills. Our aim is to create a fun environment, where your success is paramount to ours and you are given the right tools, support and platform to achieve your goals.

Diversity
We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives when we are building services to customers and the wider business. This is great news for our business. Diversity for us is also, importantly, about building happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences and backgrounds.

Recruitment Process

We review applications on an individual basis, and if we feel you would be a good fit we'll invite you for a call or Teams video for an informal chat about the role, and to see if we're a good fit for you.

We value open and honest conversations and collaboration, giving you a chance to learn about what we are doing in an informal and friendly environment. We want to know about you and why you feel that this is the opportunity for you.

Please note, this is not a remote role, and our expectation is that you will be able to attend Head Office in a hybrid way, in Rochdale.