Key Affiliate Account Manager to rapidly growing iGaming Company in South Africa

Posted 28 March 2024
LocationEtelä-Afrikka
Discipline iGaming
Reference35715
Johanna Kivimäki

Job description

The Department:

The Acquisition Marketing Department is responsible for driving traffic towards the Casino brands.

Purpose of Job:

The main focus of the Key Affiliate Account Manager role will be on our client’s casino gaming brands, and will involve identifying potential new affiliate partners, promoting their industry leading affiliate program to them, and effectively managing the on-going relationship with their key affiliate partners.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

The position will involve the following areas of responsibility:

  • Developing and pro-actively managing a portfolio of key client affiliate marketing programs ensuring you have in-depth understanding of the financial value of your portfolio
  • Acquisition, retention and activation of new affiliates and partnerships
  • Negotiating and reviewing commercial agreements with key partners
  • Identifying new client opportunities
  • Analysis of campaigns, reporting ROI results & devising strategies to move forward
  • Monitoring and analysing results of all campaigns, including weekly and monthly KPI reports - Conversion rates optimisation
  • Establishing and maintaining strong client relationships through regular contact which will include face to face meetings, telephone, and email communication
  • Proactively managing your online marketing budget
  • Developing and maintaining market leading industry knowledge of affiliate marketing to assist with delivering a top-level service
  • Working with numerical data presented in a variety of reports and spreadsheets

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities. The job holder may be required to complete any other reasonable duties to achieve business objectives.

Essential Criteria:

  • Solid experience within Affiliate Account Management and Affiliate Marketing
  • Fluent English – both written and spoken
  • Proven planning and organisational skills
  • Experience with Microsoft office programs such as Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Word

Desirable Criteria:

  • Experience with Revenue share and CPA (Cost Per Action) payment models
  • Previous online media buying experience

Person Specification:

  • The ideal candidate will be a self-motivated energetic individual
  • Requires a target driven individual
  • Strong negotiation, analytical skills and highly numerate
  • Effective and well developed communication skills are a prerequisite for the role both written and verbal
  • Excellent decision making ability
  • Innovation and ability to think “outside the box”
  • Strong work ethic
  • Ability to thrive is a fast paced environment and value attention to detail

Reporting and interaction:

  • Managerially Accountable to: Head of Affiliates
  • Key Internal Relationships: Affiliate Marketing and Marketing Operations
  • Key External Relationships: Affiliates, Compliance