Global Affiliate Performance Manager

Havas Media Group Spain SAU; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Havas Market in London is recruiting an Affiliate Manager to lead a portfolio of clients with strong affiliate experience. You will manage campaigns, cultivate affiliate networks, and deliver performance-driven results on a global scale.

You will engage in client communications, lead calls, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive strategy and innovation in affiliate marketing. A proactive attitude and hunger for success are essential for this role.

Qualifications

• At least 2+ years’ experience within an Affiliate remit, ideally within an agency environment.
• Proven experience of working with enterprise level clients and large budgets.
• Excellent communicator – written and verbal, with the ability to present confidently.
• Must be able to interpret performance and manage client expectations.
• Track record of successful client and team relationship building.
• Good numeracy skills with strong knowledge/ experience of MS Excel.
• Strong time management skills and ability to prioritise workload across direct reports.
• Management experience is desirable but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Creation and management of affiliate campaigns to effectively deliver client objectives and targets.
• Strong relationship with different Affiliate Networks.
• Technical lead and point of authority - able to quickly extract information and train junior members.
• Put forward recommendations and forecasts outside of CPA/CPL and showcase to the client how this activity contributes to their KPIs.
• Able to work with other digital teams and feel comfortable discussing how affiliates and lead generation fits into the overall marketing mix.
• Leading client calls in a confident and effective manner to ensure our clients understand our value, trust in our capability, and understand the opportunity within the Affiliate channel.
• Optimising existing publisher relationships and recruiting new and exciting publisher opportunities.
• Monitor performance daily/weekly: track revenue, orders, ROAS, and risk signals etc.
• Identify top performers and scale them (higher commissions, exclusive promos, priority creative etc.)
• Spot and remove underperformers or low‑quality affiliates quickly - cut them if they hurt brand perception, drive refunds/chargebacks, or deliver poor LTV traffic.
• Enforce brand guidelines and compliance.
• Flag opportunities/risks early: e.g., rising chargebacks, promo abuse, or untapped upside etc.
• Regularly audit affiliate traffic and promotions for brand fit and quality.
• Monitor competitor affiliate strategies and commission benchmarks.
• Drive best practice on your client, and through your team; specifically, improving the quality of campaign delivery, innovation and automation.
• Develop and plan affiliate strategy largely independently, but with oversight of your line manager.
• Developing a rich understanding of your clients’ audience and the consumer journey for their vertical, always striving to deliver richer insight to clients.
• Ensuring timely delivery of all reporting and analysis outputs.
• Ensure any direct reports have timely appraisals, and that these are logged into our HR portal.
• Maintain, and grow strong relationships with relevant day to day client stakeholders.
• Client facing presentations on strategy, campaign recommendations and subsequent results.
• Develop and maintain development plans, roadmaps, media plans, and lead on strategy.
• Work with your line manager to create high quality case studies to represent your clients’ best activation work, as well as entering (and winning!) industry awards.

Skills

Affiliate management

Client relationship management

Excel

Numeracy

Communication

Time management

Leadership / Management

Tools

MS Excel

Job description

Havas Market in London is recruiting an Affiliate Manager to lead a portfolio of clients with strong affiliate experience. You will manage campaigns, cultivate affiliate networks, and deliver performance-driven results on a global scale.

You will engage in client communications, lead calls, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive strategy and innovation in affiliate marketing. A proactive attitude and hunger for success are essential for this role.