Affiliate Partnerships Manager, APAC; Fluent in Mandarin
Singapore
Listed on 2025-12-27
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Client Relationship Manager, Business Development
Affiliate Partnerships Manager, APAC (Fluent in Mandarin)
LOCATION:
This position is a remote, work from home position, as are all positions at Acceleration Partners (a structure central to our culture and our vision to change the work/life paradigm). This role is specific for candidates living in Singapore. Some travel may be required for client meetings or other internal meetings, conferences, etc.
THE ROLE:
Acceleration Partners is accepting applications for our growing affiliate team focused on a large B2B client. We are seeking an experienced Partnerships Manager with partnerships/affiliate experience in the APAC region, with specific knowledge of the Chinese market, to support the growth and strategy of the client’s program. This person will be required to work closely with the client team and pitch high value opportunities, provide strategic insights across the Chinese market, and share progress to goals.
Thinking with a "how not if" mentality, maintaining an action‑oriented approach, and effective questioning and listening will be critical in this role.
- Alignment to Client Strategy and Goals: Actively contributes to quarterly planning and execution in conjunction with client to meet strategic goals and hit client growth targets.
- Creation and Ongoing Ownership of Strategy: Creates plan for recruitment and/or partner growth initiatives that support the client’s program, including expected timeline for execution. Executes both recruitment and nurture strategy, including negotiation of terms, campaign set-up, commission changes and coordinating communication with partners.
- Strategy Pivots: Adapts to change and pivots strategies to reach client goals; sets expectations and projects new goals when not achievable. Consistently able to communicate and push back when applicable.
- Publisher Performance: Contributes to overall revenue goal for Growth & Partnerships department, and the growth of managed clients, through creation of high potential relationships and optimization of publishers and implementing an effective recruitment strategy within each APAC market.
- SME in Client Verticals and Partner Relationships: Is a trusted and knowledgeable resource within APAC Market and partnership vertical; is an expert in verticals of managed clients; proactively leads conversations to lend expertise and knowledge across the org.
- Proactive Research: Identifies new, high-quality partnerships and/or areas of opportunity based on client needs, industry evolution.
- Persuasiveness: Successfully recruits high-potential partners to join client programs; explains the value of joining and promoting client programs and/or successfully negotiates paid placement terms and fees.
- Relationship Fostering and Growth: Has best in class interactions and/or relationships with top performing publishers and has a trusted network of partners on behalf of managed clients.
- Written and Verbal Communication: Is comfortable with cold emailing; communications are clear, informative, and engaging. Asks relevant questions when speaking to publishers to vet opportunities. Manages day-to-day communication with top publishers in program (when owning paid placements and optimization) and can independently run regional calls.
- Initiative: Has a proven track record of identifying and executing upon areas of opportunity and optimization across program to drive revenue growth.
- Persuasiveness: Consistently demonstrates intellectual curiosity; challenges the status quo, regularly pitching and gaining approval on new, innovative and or out of box opportunities. Always showcases the "why" and benefit the partnership brings to the client based on data and/or relevant metrics.
- Publisher Vertical and Client Knowledge: Has a high level of knowledge across all publisher verticals; has a proven track record of addressing client questions and speaking to areas of opportunity from having a keen understanding of client and their competitors.
- Tenacity: Digs into the why behind a no/rejection; pushes back and has a track record of…
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