Affiliate Director

Agency :

Havas Media Group

Reporting To:
Paid Performance Business Director

Office

Location:

Havas Village London, Pancras Square, N1C 4AG

Havas Media Network (HMN) employees over 500 people in the UK & Ireland. We work with clients to generate meaningful outcomes and are extremely proud of our proven track record for accelerating business growth and creating a meaningful difference.

HMN spans London, Leeds, Manchester, and Edinburgh, servicing clients through our agencies including Havas Media, Havas Market, Arena Media and Ledger Bennett. This role is based in London, but has a remit that spans the full HMN, so there will be a significant remit across our Havas Village in Kings Cross.

Our digital team spans affiliates, paid search, paid social, programmatic, CRO, commerce, as well as SEO. Through organic growth and M&A, we’ve built a scaled capability totalling 250+ specialists.

We’ve set the pathway to bring together these specialist teams across London, Leeds, and Manchester by “Empowering Digital Excellence Together”, delivering on 3 core focus areas:

• Championing our Network Culture – by being deeply connected to our client teams, our agency teams, and our specialist teams we better support our clients’ needs.
• Igniting Growth Through Innovation & Curiosity – by creating best-in-market solutions, being brave to land new ideas through a culture of curiosity.
• Delivering Unrivalled Effectiveness – by capitalising on our scale to deliver our work more effectively.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced specialist with great publisher knowledge, connections in the affiliate community, and client facing skills to manage a portfolio of internationally recognised brands.

You’ll be responsible for delivering best in class strategy and activation across all of our affiliate services. You will be supported by an AM and an AE but will be expected to build relationships with key client stakeholders, to lead on annual strategy, meet performance targets, as well as handle forecasting, partner management and reporting.

Ultimately, you will need to ensure client satisfaction remains high to ensure minimal churn, while having a strong growth agenda to drive increased revenue both within the Affiliate channel and beyond.

Extensive affiliate experience is required, ideally within an agency environment but this isn’t essential. We have ambitious growth targets for affiliates so you will have the autonomy and support to really make this role your own and to build out the team under you. This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive go-getter who wants to take the next stage in their Affiliate career.

• Lead on the development of future facing and innovative affiliate strategy for your client set.
• Develop, maintain, and grow strong relationships with relevant senior clients through leading development plans, strategy, reporting, and always-on campaign management.
• Work alongside client teams to ensure the acquisition channel delivers integrated solutions, which place innovation and best practice at the heart of all recommendations.
• In coordination with the HOP and BD, identify opportunities for organic growth across your clients.
• Senior point of contact for clients, leading on strategy and managing client expectations.
• Client facing presentations on strategy, campaign recommendations and subsequent results.
• Develop and maintain development plans, roadmaps, media plans across all affiliate channels.
• Be a ‘thought leader’, both within the team, the agency and across the industry. Taking a vocal point of view on industry issues and driving our positioning. This includes regularly presenting in team monthly meetings on Knowledge Shares for examples of great work or discussing Industry News.
• Help to drive alignment into the wider HMN culture and ways of working for all activation specialists under your remit – ensuring you balance the benefit of being part of a wider activation community with deep immersion into Arena community.
• Deliver improvements in acquisition operations, client delivery and…