Purpose of position

Our Key Account Management team is looking for an Account Manager to assist in leading the affiliate programme for Boots UK, one of the UK's most recognised health and beauty retailers. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your strategic, analytical, and relationship management skills while driving growth through innovative affiliate partnerships.

As the day-to-day point of contact for Boots UK on the Awin network, you will provide expert guidance on affiliate marketing best practices, with a particular focus on upper-funnel activity, including content publishers, influencers, and editorial partnerships. Working closely with the wider Awin Boots team, including the Client Strategy Lead, Lower Funnel Account Manager, Senior Account Manager, AdOps team, and the Boots Upper Funnel Specialist and Executive, you will identify opportunities to expand reach, engage new audiences, and drive both brand awareness and performance growth.

You will be responsible for developing, activating and nurturing relationships with key content and influencer subnetwork partners, and delivering insight-led recommendations to optimise programme performance. As an active member of the Team Boots, you will bring fresh ideas and innovative approaches to help Boots UK maximise affiliate revenue while strengthening its presence across the upper-funnel affiliate ecosystem.

Key Tasks

• Deliver excellent service and relationship management to client and publisher within Health and Beauty
• Be the internal owner of all assigned partners and be fully informed and able to provide information when required for the client
• Generating reports and providing analysis on performance, and ensuring commentary is accurate and insightful with a view at improving activity
• Taking ownership of and streamlining processes
• Regular client calls and the ability to be reactive and supportive of client goals
• Initiate and implement ideas to grow affiliate activities in line with the needs of clients and assist client and the wider Awin Boots team in the creation of quarterly and yearly strategies
• Producing competitor benchmarks for your clients, while proactively advising on industry trends and identifying opportunities for Boots within upper funnel
• Take ownership in delivery and service level to client and pro-actively providing insight to Team Leader
• Optimising existing publisher relationships and recruiting new and exciting publisher opportunities for advertisers within upper funnel
• Presenting confidently, both internally and externally, on a range of topics.
• Ensuring that you and your clients are up to date with all technology and tracking optimisations, and that all campaigns make the best use of these

Skills & Expertise

• Up to 1+ years’ account management experience in a relevant digital marketing role ideally
• Retail industry affiliate experience would be ideal (health and beauty experience isn’t essential)
• Enthusiastic, committed, and passionate about digital
• Numerate with a good level of knowledge of MS Office packages
• Ability to see the bigger picture and identify areas of opportunity and risk
• Professional and with a proven track record of successful client and team relationship building, including strong networking skills
• Seeks ownership and readily accepts accountability
• Strong time management and organizational skills to maintain own work flow and meet deadlines
• Confident and excellent communicator with a keen attention to detail
• Competent and experienced with creating forecasts and justifying the rationale

Our Offer

• Flexi-Week and Work-Life Balance: We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing, offering you a flexible four-day Flexi-Week at full pay and with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance. We also offer a variety of different paid special leaves.
• Remote Working Allowance: You will receive a monthly allowance to cover part of your running costs. In addition, we will support you in setting up your remote workspace appropriately.
• Flexi-Office: We offer an international culture and flexibility through our Flexi-Office and hybrid/remote work possibilities to work across Awin regions
• Development: We’ve built our extensive training suite Awin Academy to cover a wide range of skills that nurture you professionally and personally, with trainings conveniently packaged together to support your overall development. 

Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture.

Like all businesses, we’ve had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings our colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities.

Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members. We champion uniqueness and authenticity; this is who we are at our core. Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

Awin is part of the Axel Springer group. Learn more at axelspringer.com/en/, and explore the Axel Springer Essentials here: axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why  

Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal development.

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