Affiliate Account Executive

Agency:

Omd

Job Function:

Media

Job Subfunction:

Trading and Investment

Job Description:

About the Role:

MG OMD are looking for an Affiliate Executive to join the team of affiliate and lead generation specialists across a variety of clients including Nissan, British Airways, and RCI Bank. This role will primarily be supporting the Halfords affiliate team, working closely alongside a range of other media channels to deliver a best-in-class affiliate programme. The function of the Affiliate Executive is to support with media campaign creation, strategy and evaluation within the affiliate and lead generation channels. You will develop a keen sense of commercial awareness to inform performance optimisations and constantly evolve your own knowledge of affiliate publishers and technologies to support and drive best in class affiliate programmes. You will build strong relationships with clients, affiliate partners and agency colleagues to ensure the smooth running of our affiliate accounts across a variety of clients.

You will be responsible for driving MG OMD’s affiliate activity forward. The role would suit someone who is eager to challenge themselves and develop their career in affiliate marketing.

You will be responsible for:

Day-to-day affiliate account support, picking up key processes and building relationships with affiliate partners and clients.

Contributing to key deliverables such as weekly reporting (including analytical commentary and recommendations), post-campaign analysis, competitor monitoring and auditing.

Establishing a comprehensive working knowledge of key affiliate and internal agency processes and demonstrate a proactive, hands-on approach to BAU execution and problem solving.

Assisting your team to coordinate, execute and evaluate campaign strategies for the channel, ensuring client’s affiliate performance is effective & their KPIs and business objectives are delivered.

Actively learning about, sourcing and recommending new ideas and implementing them for the client’s benefit.

Developing an understanding of key industry and agency tools, systems and analytics and using them daily.

Building and maintaining relationships with other agency teams, driving integrated work and delivering insights outside of the performance team.

About the Agency:

MG OMD was established in 1990 as a challenger media agency (Manning Gottlieb Media) that placed craft, trust and performance at the heart of media planning and buying.

Since joining Omnicom network’s OMG (Omnicom Media Group) in 1998, we have continued to retain our founding ethos of providing clients with bespoke approaches, unprecedented insight, specialism, security and transparency; helping our clients to use media to unlock their competitive advantage and deliver innovative, effective and award-winning work and campaigns that create difference that matters.

MG OMD is the second-largest media agency in the UK. We are the most awarded media agency in both the history of the IPA Effectiveness Awards and Thinkbox’s TV Planning Awards and have this year been named as Agency of the Year in The Media Leader UK awards, Campaign Global awards and Campaign UK awards.

With over 500 employees working across some of the UK’s leading brands including the John Lewis Partnership, Virgin Media O2, British Airways, Specsavers, HM Government, LNER, Sony Pictures and Age UK; it is our people who ultimately make the award-winning difference.

So, true to our ethos, we work hard at creating a spirit and atmosphere that inspires our people to be considerate, honest, and professional whilst also being stimulating, imaginative and inspirational.

We want people who are great to work with, fun to be with and who genuinely care; about each other, our clients, our media partners and doing great work.

In return, we provide an amazingly collaborative culture, where open communication and an unwavering commitment to diversity of thinking, diversity of background and diversity of skillsets runs through everything we do. All backed up by the highest standards of training, development and support in the industry; so much so, that we have attained IPA (Institute of Practitioners in Advertising) CPD Gold Accreditation for the 13th year running and maintained our CPD Platinum Accreditation for the 7th consecutive year, showcasing our commitment to continuous professional development. We were also featured in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work in both 2023 and 2024. Our being named is completely based on the opinions and perspectives of our employees which makes the accolade all that more special.

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

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