Affiliates Executive; Mat Cover

About The Role

Job Title:
Affiliates Executive
Salary:
Competitive

Location:

Hybrid working, with 3-4 visits to our Milton Keynes office per month and 1 day per month in our London office

Working Hours:

Monday - Friday, 37.5 hours per week (9:00am - 5:30pm)
Job Status:
Fixed-Term-Contract

At cinch our mission is simple - to remove the faff from buying and owning cars, giving customers more choice, with more ease (not to mention a free 90-day warranty on all cars...)

Already the UK’s largest online used car retailer, we’re expanding our offering with an exciting roadmap of online and physical retail solutions - including faff-free car servicing at over 100 locations across the country.

We’re part of Constellation Automotive Group - a family of brands that also includes We Buy Any Car, British Car Auctions (BCA) and Marshall Motor Group. Together, cinch and Marshall operate as Constellation Retail - bringing together 100+ years of motoring know-how at 130+ stores (Marshall) with a market-leading digital experience from a much-admired brand (cinch).

The road ahead for you is clear. Join us and you’ll get a unique opportunity to grow your career across two leading automotive brands that are really going places. Buckle up and enjoy the ride.

• Developing and pro-actively managing a portfolio of affiliate partners
• Pro-actively acquire and retain new affiliates
• Establishing and maintaining strong partner relationships
• Negotiating and reviewing commercial agreements with all partners under their account management, supported by Head of Digital Marketing, liaising with Procurement, Legal and Data Protection/Infosec teams
• Monitoring, analysing and optimising the performance of all campaigns vs. KPI’s.
• Identifying new potential opportunities in the relevant product vertical
• Budget Management and In-Month Pacing – Responsible for managing and using the affiliates budget efficiently, also in pacing that spend throughout the month by monitoring daily spend and adjusting partner CPAs where needed
• Experience media planning, forecasting and budgeting to business KPIs.
• Ability to lean in and support across other digital channels (i.e. Paid Social & Display)
• Generating weekly/monthly business reporting and conducting financial reconciliation
• Owning & developing the Affiliate strategy for cinch with Head of Digital support
• Work with the Brand team to secure creative assets to support new campaigns/promotions
• Work with Data Engineering/Product on technical setups with third parties.
• Supporting the Head of Digital Marketing with ad hoc analysis for senior stakeholders & making key recommendations regarding strategy
• Conduct troubleshooting of issues mostly themselves and seek resolutions with appropriate teams, though blockers would be escalated to the Head of Digital

• Proven experience in an Affiliates role working on an ecommerce account (agency or in house)
• Contract negotiation experience and other process led onboarding (legal teams, Data protection/infosec, etc)
• Basic Affiliates network knowledge (platforms such as Awin, Webgains, CJ Affiliates)
• Has some exposure to other reporting stacks such as Adobe/Power BI/GA etc.
• Comfortable working with large data sets & in Microsoft Excel and able to use this data to analyse emerging trends and areas of opportunity
• Excellent external stakeholder management (i.e. publisher networks, direct third-party advertising agreements)
• A basic understanding of tracking technologies/techniques (tag based, server to server)
• A data-driven mindset and the ability to strategize with cross-functional teams; strong cross-functional relationship management skills
• Ability to work autonomously and problem solve with some support
• Strong presentation skills and able to…