Affiliates Manager - Travel

　　Location:

　　London

　　Department:

　　The Times & The Sunday Times

　　Salary Details:

　　Not Specified

　　Advertising End Date:

　　26 Feb 2024

　　Job Description

　　As Affiliates Manager, you’ll define and realise our affiliate strategy, establishing and nurturing our affiliate networks and direct partnerships to ensure that our audiences can readily purchase the right travel products and services via our digital content and digital marketing. You’ll be a commercially astute self-starter, who thrives as part of a tight team and essentially, you’ll be passionate about innovation and affiliates in ecommerce.

　　The team:Situated within News UK’s commercial Travel team, the Travel Partnerships team is tasked with driving consumer revenues through selling holidays and travel services to News UK audiences using travel expertise, data and innovation, thus, creating the foundations for future revenue streams.

　　You will report into the Head of Partnerships and work closely with individuals from the team, as well as, key stakeholders from the business, including, our industry leading Editorial Travel team.

　　The role is responsible for two Affiliate Executives.

　　What you’ll do

　　Meet and exceed eCommerce revenue targets for Travel Partnerships

　　Review and refine the affiliate network identifying, negotiating, onboarding and nurturing relationships with direct affiliates, direct partners and affiliate aggregators

　　Ensure our existing and new affiliate partners have a great experience working with News UK, with smooth processes from contract management, product development, to ongoing account management

　　Work with the Travel and Editorial teams to design and optimise ecommerce journeys to create a high quality user experience that best meets user and affiliate needs

　　Assist with optimising the evergreen content commissioning plans to maximise affiliate revenues

　　Health check our existing publisher accounts on networks like AWIN, CJ, Rakuten, Partnerize, Impact, and ShareASale.

　　Manage the affiliate portfolio to realise its full revenue potential and ensuring our commercial and editorial teams are equipped for maximum success

　　Ensure campaign tracking is at all times correctly deployed and up-to-date

　　Analyse affiliate performance providing insight for content optimisation and product strategy

　　Control invoicing and billing for affiliate and ensure accurate, up to date revenue reporting

　　Create reports for internal teams and external partners

　　Key Skills

　　A good understanding, and direct experience of the affiliate landscape: publishers, merchants, networks

　　Direct experience working within the travel affiliate sector, with relevant industry contacts

　　High level of understanding of suppliers and products across the travel sector

　　Proven experience of partner acquisition

　　An entrepreneurial mindset

　　Highly commercial and with proven success in driving partner revenues

　　A strong self starter who is motivated by ambitious targets

　　Excellent communication skills

　　Ability to manage and lead a team

　　Sales and account management experience & excellent negotiation skills

　　Experience in commercial contract management

　　Excellent organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise work effectively

　　Publishing experience is preferred but not required

　　A team player who likes to roll up their sleeves and get stuck in

　　If you’re someone who can build and nurture an affiliate network, deliver on ambitious revenue targets and you thrive within a fast paced working environment then we’d love to hear from you

　　Life at News : At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

　　We championdiversity and inclusion (https://www.news.co.uk/more-than-the-news/diversity-inclusion/) , we strive to maximise and encourage every individual’s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

　　We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting theHealth and Wellbeingof our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

　　Private medical insurance covering pre-existing conditions

　　Discounted gym memberships, ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes

　　‘Bikes for Work’ scheme

　　Physio/massage,

　　Counselling

　　A generouspensionscheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

　　25 daysholidayand up to 4volunteeringdays per year;

　　Maternityleave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks;

　　Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.

　　We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require anyreasonable adjustmentsduring the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

　　News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.