Job Description
Affiliate Marketing Manager
Want to work in Sports & Entertainment? Here’s your chance!
viagogo – Europe’s largest ticket exchange – is growing fast and we’re looking to hire candidates who are incredibly smart, very talented and intensely passionate about their work.
As the Affiliate Manager, you might spend your day working with the designers to produce new banners promoting Coldplay’s upcoming tour. You could set up a contest to see which US affiliates sell the most baseball tickets throughout the season. Or you may spend time sweet-talking some affiliates into testing landing pages while you convince others to join our program. And you would, of course, also get to monitor results and dig into the numbers to find new and creative ways of continually optimizing our affiliate programs.
It’s a fun job. And even though you’d be work independently and be consistently challenged, you’d be part of a larger team that will support you along the way. We’re all working hard to grow viagogo into a dominant global brand and we’re excited by the prospect of welcoming new members to our team.
ABOUT THE JOB
We’re looking for a high calibre Affiliate Marketing Manager to drive aggressive revenue growth. This a fantastic opportunity for the right individual to take responsibility for the strategy, tactics and success of viagogo’s affiliate programs in Europe and the US.
It is an ideal role for a tech-savvy individual who wants to get hands-on experience in a fun, rapidly expanding organization, especially if you want to be part of an early stage venture with a proven, successful business model.
Responsibilities:
- Actively manage viagogo affiliate programs across multiple networks in the UK, Europe & the US
- Liaising with the Marketing Director to put together overall plans & forecasts for each program
- Managing budget and commission structures to optimize program profitability
- Analyzing the success of programs in terms of sales, channel growth, etc.
- Managing and building relationships with agencies and network account managers
- Creating promotions, campaigns and offers used to incentivize affiliates
- Driving program awareness by actively participating in affiliate forums
- Overseeing creative specifically designed for each of the affiliate programs
- Developing and implementing strategies to aggressively recruit top affiliates
- Developing strong personal relationships with top affiliates
- Liaising and working with Marketing and Technology groups
Essential Experience/ Skills:
- 2.1 or above degree from a top tier university
- Comprehensive understanding of the Affiliate Marketing industry
- History of actively participating in industry events, communities and forums
- Proven track record of achieving results via consumer marketing activities
- Metrics-focused mentality and ability to effectively analyze and optimize programs
- Strong technical skills – HTML, SQL – and ability to work with tech to build affiliate tools
- Very strong knowledge of Microsoft Office – excel, word, powerpoint
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Desirable Experience/ Skills:
- Experience working in an e-commerce environment
- Strong knowledge of and/or passion for sports, music or theatre
- Experience working abroad and/or ability to speak German, French, Dutch or Spanish
The Person:
- First class communication, interpersonal and presentation skills
- Ability to operate effectively at all levels within and external to the business
- Independent thinker – has conviction and tenacity
- Hands on and proactive – able to “work things out”
- Energetic and enthusiastic – has a sense of urgency
- Entrepreneurial spirit & desire to work in a fast-paced start-up environment
ABOUT viagogo
viagogo is a ticket exchange, where fans can buy and sell tickets to a wide range of live events in the UK, Europe and US. Through exclusive deals with artists like Madonna, we also sell premium tickets and VIP Packages on the primary market.
Our partners include Manchester United, Chelsea FC, the Cleveland Browns, Bon Jovi and many other top teams and artists. As a business, we have over $50million in funding and are backed by some of the world’s leading investors and advisors. Not bad for a start-up!
(And did we mention that you can wear flip-flops in the office?)
Oh, we’ve also done this before. That’s right – our founder, Eric Baker, started a similar company in the States called StubHub...which eBay acquired for $310million in 2007. So it’s safe to say that we know what we’re doing and we’re doing it well.
If you’re interested in joining our team and helping viagogo become the biggest ticket exchange on the planet, send us your CV today to jobs@viagogo.com