Affiliates Associate Director

About the Role:

OMD is seeking to recruit an enthusiastic Affiliate Account Director to oversee the delivery of activity for premium brands that are household names in the finance and automobile sectors.

You will be your clients’ key day-to-day contact, responsible for planning & activating,  and evolving the performance strategy that will help deliver their business objectives.

To achieve this, you will directly manage an Affiliate Executive and an Affiliate Account Manager and report to the Head of  Affiliates. Your role is to organise, inspire, and innovate across this team to deliver optimal results for your clients. Alongside this, you’ll have a keen sense of commercial awareness, applied on your clients’ behalf to continually optimise and drive efficiency.

• Work with your team to coordinate campaign strategies for the channel, which include building and managing relationships with Key Publishers.
• Drive innovation within your account, negotiating and planning for added value for your clients.
• Identify new partners and expansion opportunities that fit within the limitations of your client’s sector
• Constantly looking to drive growth into new areas and to launch new activities for additional business areas to drive client growth
• Support the management of daily client expectations, learning to manage your workload with multiple deliverables.
• Continuously recommend new ideas/strategies/tactics and implement them for the client’s benefit, and remain interested in the client’s business

 These are some of the skills and attitudes that you will need to fulfil your role:

• This role requires a strong strategic understanding of affiliate marketing and its landscape
• Innovative & analytical thinking
• Strong team leadership, organisation & management
• Workload and priority management and the ability to juggle a handful of live products and campaigns simultaneously
• You will be primarily responsible for leading the affiliate activity, building strong relationships with both the clients and affiliate partners to ensure the smooth running of your accounts. Therefore, strong communication, attention to detail and organisational skills are essential in this role.
• You will have a keen sense of commercial awareness employed on behalf of your clients to optimise media continually. You will have an enthusiastic, inquisitive nature to constantly evolve your knowledge of existing partners and technologies, delivering a best-in-class affiliate program.
• Best-in-class expertise across affiliates, aggregators and lead generation (the latter is not essential)
• Be up to date on your core client verticals, developing an opinion on major industry developments within digital media and more broadly within that vertical
• Experience managing affiliate programs either from Agency, Network, Publisher, or Client Side. You will be joining a team of affiliate specialists that can apply transferable optimisation and management skills across a portfolio of clients to ultimately deliver the best performance against their core KPI’s.

About the Agency:

At OMD UK, we help our clients make better decisions, faster to unlock extraordinary growth using three industry-leading capabilities: Decisions Science, Connected Performance and Agile Innovation. We transform better customer understanding into faster marketing impact with world-class talent and technology, and we do this with some of the world’s most iconic and influential brands. 

We are part of the world’s largest media network, with more than 12,000 people working in over 100 countries and are currently AdWeek’s Global Media Agency of the Year. 

Flexible Working

At Omnicom Media Group, we are committed to supporting flexibility for our people while fostering collaboration, innovation, and teamwork. We have a hybrid working model (three days in the office, two working remotely), to ensure that we meet the needs of both our people and our business, balancing the benefits of in-person connections with the flexibility of remote working. Our standard working hours are 9:30 – 17:30, but we offer the ability to flex around core hours of 10:30 – 16:30 to give our people flexibility on how they manage their working day, whether that’s in the office or working remotely. For example, you could start work at 8:30 and finish at 16:30 or start at 10:30 and finish at 18:30.

We encourage open conversations between our people and managers to help navigate high-need periods and individual circumstances. Our goal is to create an environment where people feel genuinely supported to do their best - both in their careers and in their lives outside of work.

Be Your Best

We want everyone to make the most of the opportunity to shine and showcase your talents and we are happy to make adjustments in the recruitment process so you can be your best. Please discuss any specific requirements with your dedicated Talent Team member or if you would feel more comfortable, you can email us confidentially at [email protected] to let us know how we can support you.

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