We are looking for an Affiliate Account Manager to join our GLI family in Century City.

At GLI, we encourage a culture of empowerment, creative expression and a positive work-life balance. We offer our employees flexible working hours, remote working options, Medical Aid contributions and discretionary annual bonuses.

If you’re driven, out-going and a vibrant individual, looking for great coffee, challenging projects and Friday drinks, then this is the place for you!

The Affiliate Account Manager will be responsible for driving traffic towards the company’s client gaming website. The role will involve identifying and signing up new affiliate partners, promoting the industry leading affiliate program to them, and effectively managing the on-going relationship with existing affiliate partners.

Key Responsibility Areas

• Recruit new qualified affiliates on a global basis to deliver on new account goals
• Reactivating a dormant base of affiliates in the program
• Develop and successfully negotiate commercial agreements with affiliates.
• Plan and organize promotions that encourage affiliates to generate acquisitions.
• Successfully negotiate and conclude positioning agreements with affiliates.
• Selection and briefing of appropriate creative.
• Co-ordination of back-end fulfilment with other departments.
• Measurement of affiliate performance by monitoring key metrics such as customers acquired, cost per acquisition, deal break evens and overall revenue generated.
• Maximise affiliate performance based on measurements, through changes to creative, positioning, price, etc.
Networking and attendance at international conferences
o Liaise, organise and provide input into stand designs
o Attend networking opportunities
o Manage the team attending the conference
o Put travel itineraries together and ensure all arrangements
• Building and improving processes, systems and features to support business growth in acquiring new online affiliates
• Account managing a portfolio of existing affiliate partners to maximize revenue generation Nurturing existing affiliates to deliver incremental revenue
• Ensure affiliate payments happen timeously and correctly
• Ensure the affiliate programme website is up to date and improved
• Monitoring and participating in affiliate marketing forums and events to strengthen affiliate relationships as required
• International travel will be required

Requirements & Skills

• 3+ yrs Business, Marketing or related degree or experience preferred
• A strong sales / acquisition / commercial negotiation background - with experience in meeting revenue and new business targets consistently
• Experience with online marketing models - CPA (Cost Per Action), CPC (Cost-Per-Click ) and CPM (Cost-Per-Mill) and Revenue share payment models
• Experience in the global market place, International travel experience / exposure non-negotiable
• Experience in creating and executing online marketing campaigns
• Solid negotiation and deal closure ability / excellent business acumen essential to liaise with clients
• International travel experience/exposure

Attributes / Abilities:

• Ability to design and implement strategies for global markets
• Ability to operate at both a strategic and operational level and manage a high level of complexity
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to build and maintain strong affiliate relationships
• Excellent business acumen and commercially savvy
• Proven ability to collaborate and work across business divisions
• Enthusiastic and “can do” attitude
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Numeric and analytical abilities
• Creative thinking
• Comfortable with risk taking
• Target Driven
• Go-getter attitude
• Team Player
• Ability to work well under pressure

How Vacancies Work:
Once we have received your resume, our HR Team will review it shortly. If you’ve reached the interview stage, you’ll then hear from us via email or phone within two weeks. Unfortunately, due to application volumes we can’t give feedback to all applicants. But be sure to keep an eye out, as new job opportunities are posted here regularly.