Affiliate Account Manager

About the Role:

MG OMD are looking for an Affiliate Manager to join the growing team of affiliate and lead generation specialists working  across a varied roster of clients including Nissan, Specsavers, Intuit QuickBooks, Renault and Odeon.

This role will be responsible for the management of the Halfords affiliate programme, working closely alongside the other channel disciplines to deliver a best-in-class media activity. The primary function is to oversee the delivery of always-on and seasonal campaigns, reporting and planning within the affiliate and lead generation channels.

As an Affiliate Manager at MG OMD, you will be responsible for championing excellence in affiliate programme activation for your clients and managing your junior team members. 
Working alongside cross channel teams, your day to day will involve collaboration across the Omnicom group; including planning, analytics and finance.

The Affiliate Manager holds a key role within the team; responsible for the strategic planning and buying of affiliate activity for halfords, supported by a wider team spanning two Omnicom agencies, MG OMD and Hearts & Science business – working alongside peers across numerous verticals including retail, finance, automotive and travel.

This role will appeal to someone who is passionate about the future of our industry and loves working with big, exciting cultural brands. We are looking for someone who is experienced and knowledgeable leading large clients across performance media channels, as we pioneer a sustainable; privacy-centric approach to media planning and buying.

As an individual with a demonstratable passion for affiliate marketing, you will be responsible for:

• The development and continuing improvement of your client’s affiliate programme through high quality day-to-day management and leadership.
• Owning the processes and delivery of key affiliate management including reporting, status calls and quarterly business reviews, and aligning activity, budget, and strategy with wider media channels.
• Pushing the wider team forward with knowledge on key industry and agency tools, processes and analytics and using them to the benefit of our clients.
• Growing and maintaining close relationships with top industry publishers and seeking out opportunities with new partners.
• Striving for high-quality and accuracy across all deliverables, both internal and client facing for yourself and your team.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work successfully independently.
• Excellent organisation & strong attention to detail.
• Proficient user of MS Office and industry tools.
• Demonstrable experience of end-to-end affiliate and lead generation campaign management.
• Solid understanding of affiliate marketing trends.
• High level understanding of affiliate marketing and how this feeds into the wider media mix.
• Working knowledge of major affiliate networks and lead management platforms.
• Proven experience in a management or mentorship role.

 

You will be a strong relationship builder with experience of working with clients, networks, and publishers across markets and verticals, with a focus on retail.

The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of affiliate marketing experience. 

 

About the Agency:

MG OMD was established in 1990 as a challenger media agency (Manning Gottlieb Media) that placed craft, trust and performance at the heart of media planning and buying. ​

Since joining Omnicom network’s OMG (Omnicom Media Group) in 1998, we have continued to retain our founding ethos of providing clients with bespoke approaches, unprecedented insight, specialism, security and transparency; helping our clients to use media to unlock their competitive advantage and deliver innovative, effective and award-winning work and campaigns that create difference that matters.​ 

MG OMD is the second-largest media agency in the UK. We are the most awarded media agency in both the history of the IPA Effectiveness Awards and Thinkbox’s TV Planning Awards and have this year been named as Agency of the Year in The Media Leader UK awards, Campaign Global awards and Campaign UK awards.  

With over 500 employees working across some of the UK’s leading