Senior Affiliate Manager (Sports)

Job Description
Job vacancy: Senior Affiliate Manager (Sports)
Job reference: IRIS_335_JOB

Job description: 
We are looking to recruit an experienced Senior Affiliate Manager to join our client's team. Your main role will be to define, implement and manage their affiliate strategy in each market, using best practices, data insights, and collaboration with your colleagues. You will initially manage all affiliate marketing relationships, ensure affiliates are driving incremental sales, monitoring for unusual activity, and build strong relationships with top affiliate partners.

About our Client: 
Our client specializes in the online casino industry by providing entertainment through its gaming products (including sportsbooks to be added soon) and is located in Sliema.

Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Develop sports betting affiliate marketing strategy to scale up new revenue sources.
• Manage a portfolio of high-value affiliate accounts with the objective of expanding the number of new depositing customers.
• Monitor and analyze affiliate performance based on standard KPIs such as conversion rate, player value, and ROI.
• Identify and cultivate top performers and develop incentive programs to reward key partners.
• Create monthly promotions and communications to affiliate marketers.
• Collaborate with the internal teams to continuously improve landing pages and overall marketing and merchandising campaigns through the affiliate network.
• Develop affiliate recruitment and affiliate program marketing campaigns.
• Implement strategies to increase the quality and yield of affiliate partners.

Requirements and Skills: 

• Experience in affiliate management within iGaming (Sports).
• An established affiliate network in the iGaming industry.
• Experienced in regulated markets.
• Well connected within Canada is a big plus.
• Experience as both an operator and as an affiliate is a plus.
• Strong negotiation, analytical, and implementation skills.
• High comfort with data analysis and using data to make informed decisions.
• Knowledge of affiliate and direct marketing best practices.
• Strong analytics and Excel skills.
• Professional communication skills for phone, emails, and chats with affiliates.
• Great communicator.
• Methodical, numbers-driven, and well organized.
• Open and responsive problem-solving skills.
• Be proactive and motivate others when necessary.
• Fluent in English. Knowledge in other languages is considered a big advantage.
• Positive and enthusiastic can-do approach.
• A team player who can work independently but likes to work with a team.

Education: 

• A Bachelor's degree.

Salary and Benefits: 

• Competitive salary.

IRIS THAUMAS Ltd:
Iris Thaumas Ltd is a human resources company specializing in employment services, recruitment and payroll for Aviation, Marine, Finance, Tech and IT, providing employment and payroll solutions in 28 countries across Europe. Licensed Employment Agency/Employment Business (EA #181) and Certified Seafarer Recruitment and Placement Service (MLC 2006 SRPS).