Client Growth Strategy Manager, Performance Marketing

Client Growth Strategy Manager, Performance Marketing.

Needham, Massachusetts;
New York, New York;
Atlanta, Georgia

Full time

We’ve been leading the charge in the affiliate industry from day one—establishing performance marketing and paving the way for future innovations. We’re known for maintaining one of the largest, most reliable partnership platforms with impeccable, personalized service.

Founded in Santa Barbara, California in 1998, CJ (formerly Commission Junction) stands as the most trusted name in performance marketing. We specialize in building partnerships between top brands and reputable publishers to drive revenue and business growth. CJ’s industry-leading solutions make us the platform of choice for over 3,800 global brands across sectors like retail, travel, finance, technology, and home services.

As part of Publicis Groupe, our savvy data capabilities, cutting‑edge tech, and strategic expertise facilitate genuine connections, allowing brands to reach consumers wherever they are.

Think back to your last online purchase. Did an influencer tip you off about a great product and offer a discount? Or perhaps you relied on a trusted review site to make your decision? Whatever path you took, affiliate publishers likely played a role by influencing, informing, or helping you find the best deal. CJ connects brands with these publishers, creating valuable resources for shoppers like you.

As a Client Growth Strategy Manager, you are responsible for a portfolio of advertiser accounts. Growth Strategy Managers provide expert advice, training, and consultation on affiliate marketing procedures and strategies; as well as create content, tools and thought leadership. This role plays a key role in renewing contracts, upselling relevant services, providing financial projections, and working with counterparts in other CJ functions to ensure client needs are met.

The Client Growth Strategy Manager is the trusted advisor to our advertisers and collaborates with them on how to best implement affiliate marketing strategy on the CJ network.

What you’ll doing:

• Manage client relationships and develop a deep understanding of advertiser’s corporate and marketing objectives to develop affiliate marketing strategies that deliver high impact results.
• Lead a team of affiliate marketers and work together to drive the execution of the strategy while ensuring timeliness and effectiveness of deliverables.
• Pitch CJ’s products and solutions and gain adoption to meet client business goals.
• Convey CJ’s value proposition, functioning as point of escalation partners joined to advertiser programs.
• Define platform feature and capability enhancements as a product collaborator on behalf of advertisers.
• Grow CJ client revenue and accurately forecast revenue growth and identify potential.
• Develop and share best practices, content, and tools to be used by clients and/or published in CJ’s Support Center, Blog, and other marketing collateral.
• Lead collaboration with cross-departmental teams to identify and troubleshoot complex program management and technical challenges.
• Mentor Associates- coach, provide guidance, and best practices to help team members succeed at CJ

What we look for:

• Bachelor’s Degree or commensurate work experience
• 5 plus years of experience working in a marketing role—ideally digital performance marketing
• Capability to develop thoughtful strategies to grow advertiser programs
• Strong written and verbal communication and relationship skills
• Ability to work cross functionally with Product, Analytics, Accounting and Technology teams to accomplish client objectives
• Deliver high quality service and results to clients while delivering against CJ financial expectations
• Proven leadership and coaching skills
• Critical thinker and creative problem solver – you are able to influence/develop/negotiate account strategies that incorporate affiliate marketing best practices
• Passion for innovation and technology
• Proficient knowledge of the Microsoft suite of products, including Windows, Word, Excel, and Power Point

This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days a…