Affiliate Manager

POSITION PURPOSE

The Affiliate Media manager will directly manage all aspects of affiliate marketing for home décor, furniture, textiles, luggage, small appliances, and housewares offerings. This role will be pivotal to shaping and achieving our global growth strategy in 2017 and beyond, through continuously innovating, testing and implementing new affiliate marketing approaches.  This position will be responsible for working with existing affiliate and lead gen partners to scale our breadth of traffic, leads and customers they provide. Seek out and build relationships with industry contacts for new business opportunities. Collaborate with Paid Media and Customer Analytics to develop customer acquisition strategy, devise testing plan for new affiliate, and lead gen partners. Manage entire affiliate partner onboarding process from contract inception to go live status. Schedule regular calls and in-person meetings with publishers/advertisers to review performance. Meet and exceed all sales and revenue targets. Report on and analyze the marketing funnel for the entire affiliate channel as well as by partner.

MAJOR TASKS, RESPONSIBILITES AND KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• 15%-Partner with Media leadership and marketing category/brand teams to develop media recommendations that support key business and marketing goals and objectives 
• 20%-Direct media agency and supervise direct report on creation and execution of department-level media plans 
• 25%-Develop and maintain strong relationships with marketers, merchants and cross-functional teams (creative, social, finance, Consumer Insights, CRM, HD.Com, PR, etc.) 
• 10%-Analyze and report on media performance and incorporate learning into current and future planning 
• 20%-Test and Learn - new and emerging media trends/opportunities that will help drive our business and create competitive advantage 
• 10%-Budget management and stewardship of media buys

NATURE AND SCOPE
No direct reports

ENVIRONMENTAL JOB REQUIREMENTS
Environment:
Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Travel:
Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Additional Environmental Job Requirements:
Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Education Required:
The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Years of Relevant Work Experience: 5 years
Physical Requirements:
Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2-5 years of experience in the Affiliate Marketing space
• 2 years experience managing and growing Affiliate partnerships
• Retail/multi outlet advertising experience
• Ability to work and be flexible in fast-paced environment
• Goal oriented and laser focused workflow

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies:

• Strong leadership abilities and experience managing teams and cross-functional work relationships, both internally and with external agency and media partners 
• Highly organized with an ability to combine strategic direction with hands on tactical execution 
• Strategic thinker with demonstrated ability to conceptualize and build integrated media plans 
• Strong presentation skills with ability to gain alignment on recommendations 
• Must be proficient in Excel/Word/Powerpoint computer programs 
• Must be able to manage and prioritize multiple tasks/responsibilities; must be organized and a strong communicator; may be involved in some mildly difficult situations 
• Working knowledge of marketing, finance, advertising, merchandising and operations; builds effective partnerships throughout the organization; supervises and partners with Media Supervisors and Media
• Coordinators to support the merchandise marketing and merchandising groups 
• Partners with Media Director to set strategic, long term media planning, thinks outside of the current day to day environment to create a vision of what the future looks like in the media world