Affiliate Manager | Beauty Brands

Life at THG Beauty 

We know that beauty isn’t one-size-fits-all. Our portfolio of leading retailers and iconic beauty brands caters to everyone, everywhere, empowering customers all over the world to look and feel fantastic.

By combining our portfolio of owned brands with a marketplace for over 1,300 third-party beauty brands through online retail sites LOOKFANTASTIC, Cult Beauty, and Dermstore, THG Beauty's ambition is to be the global digital partner of choice across the beauty industry, supporting the channel shift to online.

THG Beauty’s breadth of relationships is unique to the beauty market; it engages with brands as a retailer, a brand owner, and a product developer and manufacturer, making it the industry’s digital strategic leader. 

 

Why be a an Affiliate Manager at THG Beauty? 

Please explain why doing this job at THG is better than doing this job anywhere else e.g. career development, progression opportunities, exposure etc. Max 100 words. 

 

As an Affiliate Manager, you’ll:  

• Prepare and manage the affiliate marketing budget and measure ROI’s and KPI’s across optimal levels of investment, new customer acquisition and retention 

• Establishing clear new customer acquisition driving initiatives to exceed growth targets 

• Understanding individual publisher performance and using this information to drive actionable insights  

• Ensure affiliate programs are maintained to the highest standard – always meeting best practice. Ensure this is fed down to wider members of the team  

• Drive new publisher recruitment that aligns with the channel strategy and KPIs 

• Seek and deliver innovative ways to drive performance in the channel  

• Build strong, long-lasting relationships with publishers and strive to deliver growth and increased market share in line with budgets and COS%. Request regular QBRs and insights and take the necessary steps to ensure we’re maximising our investment in the most efficiency way 

• Assess opportunities and risks in targets and building a recovery plan with the support of the wider team  

• Be able to provide forecasts on overall performance, as well as on a publisher and campaign level 

• Managing promotion planning across more junior members of the team, ensuring this is being secured in advance 

• Support Head of Affiliates in driving best practices across the department for the global teams  

• Liaising and negotiating with publishers to drive cost efficiency for the channel. Look at group bookings across brands where possible  

• Provide in depth performance reporting and channel analysis to keep stakeholders well informed  

• Owning channel projects and reporting back to Head of Affiliates on progress and results 

 

What skills and experience do I need for this role? 

• Strong KPI management, inclusive of monitoring:
  
  • Sales and Revenue targets  
  • Channel growth / optimise targets 
  • Cost efficiency re-investment values 
  • New publisher on-boarding 
  • Publisher click & revenue % active status 
  • COS targets 
  • New customer acquisition target 
  • Brand target accuracy and performance vs target  
  • Best in class marketing activations with continuously strengthening ROI results  
  • Delivery of Sales, Traffic, AOV and Conversion KPIs across the territories 
    
    
• Experience in managing relationships with external partners and agencies   
  
  
• Strong negotiation skills to ensure cost efficiency for the channel
  
  
• Pro-active and positive leadership to coach and mentor team 
  
  
• Can perform well under pressure and deliver results in difficult situations   
  
  
• Experience working with targets and data; skilled in Microsoft Office and reporting platforms  

 

What’s in it for me? 

Career Development 

• Access bespoke development programmes that have been designed and developed by our in-house L&D team. 

• Continued development through our upskilling programme that is delivered in partnership with an industry-leading training provider. 

Enhanced Leave 

• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays. 

• Don’t want to work on your birthday? We don’t either! Enjoy your day off on us! 

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay, depending on length of service.  

• Up to 10 days compassionate leave. 

• Buy back up to 3 days each year. 

• Unlock 2 days volunteer leave after 12-months. 

Wellbeing Support 

• Access face-to-face and virtual appointments with our in-house GP. 

• Access our in-house CBT therapist. 

• Access our 247 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) which is provided by Bupa.  

• State-of-the-art on-site gym. 

• Access to our on-site physio. 

Other Perks 

• Save up to 12% on the cost of personal tech through our salary sacrifice scheme. 

• Subsidised bus pass from Manchester City Centre to our ICON office.  

• Up to 50% staff discount on THG brands. 

• On-site staff shop. 

• Access to on-site barber. 

• Know someone who would be perfect for THG? Refer them and get up to £1000 when they pass their probation. 

• Anniversary gifts when you hit 5 and 10 years of service.