About the Role
As the Digital Marketing Manager – Affiliates, you will play a pivotal role in driving our digital performance forward. Reporting into the Senior Affiliate Manager, you will help shape and deliver best‑in‑class digital marketing across the business. You’ll be responsible for a key growth area within the Performance Marketing team, working across multiple EMEA markets to scale a mature channel. Your work will directly influence our short‑, medium‑, and long‑term strategy, ensuring we achieve exceptional results in revenue, ROAS, and other critical performance metrics. This is a high‑impact role where your expertise will help accelerate our momentum and unlock the next stage of our digital success story.
Responsibilities
- Oversee day‑to‑day campaign execution and reporting.
- Deploy and optimise campaigns across the affiliate channel, managing tactics to grow market share with direct partner affiliates.
- End‑to‑end management of third‑party banner campaigns, including performance analysis and reporting.
- Deliver weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance reporting.
- Oversee and manage the integration of technical solutions.
- Lead on API setup, feed integration, and ongoing optimisation with affiliates.
- Conduct daily checks for suspicious orders and support fraud mitigation.
- Use 1st‑ and 3rd‑party data insights to inform tactics and strategy.
- Identify new affiliate opportunities and partners.
- Ensure the affiliate network has the tools and support needed to deliver strong results.
- Gather market and product insights and incorporate them into strategy and tactical planning.
- Work with the wider team to create affiliate marketing materials.
- Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including market managers, API teams, MarTech, Data Engineering, Supplier Marketing, Performance Marketing, and affiliate networks.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of affiliate channels, partner models, and performance levers.
- Ability to deploy, optimise, and scale campaigns across multiple markets.
- Experience with APIs, feed integrations, and technical troubleshooting.
- Understanding of revenue, ROAS, gross margin, and commercial KPIs.
- Clear, confident communication with internal and external partners.
- Always looking for improvements, efficiencies, and new opportunities.
Skills
- Adobe
- Power BI
Location
- London
- Corby
- Manchester
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent
Benefits
- Pension/retirement
- Life assurance
- Salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
- Medical plans
- Health screening
- Critical illness
- Disability insurance
- Holiday / paid time off
- Employee assistance programme
- Discounted gym/health club membership
- Transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing)
- Onsite catering/lunch vouchers
- Retail discounts
- Global recognition programme
About the Company
- We’ve been solving industry problems for over 80 years. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.
- Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.
- We offer service and product solutions to over 1.2 million customers globally, shipping a parcel every 2 seconds to over 130 countries. With over 800,000 stocked and 3 million unstocked products, we’re a trusted partner to the world’s leading industries.
- We’re looking for curious, driven, and empathetic professionals to join our journey. People who think differently, act with purpose, and want to make a real impact.
- Join c. 9,000 colleagues and help us shape the future of our industry. Whoever you are, wherever you are — it all starts here.
- Apply now and make RS a part of your journey.
