Digital Marketing Manager - Affiliates

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 of 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. What You Will Be Doing: Core Campaign Delivery: Campaign management — Oversee day‑to‑day campaign execution and reporting. Affiliate campaign deployment — Deploy and optimise campaigns across the affiliate channel, managing tactics to grow market share with direct partner affiliates. Third‑party banner management — End‑to‑end management of third‑party banner campaigns, including performance analysis and reporting. Performance reporting — Deliver weekly, monthly, and quarterly performance reporting. Technical & Data Responsibilities: Technical solution integration — Oversee and manage the integration of technical solutions. API and feed optimisation — Lead on API setup, feed integration, and ongoing optimisation with affiliates. Fraud monitoring — Conduct daily checks for suspicious orders and support fraud mitigation. Data‑driven optimisation — Use 1st‑ and 3rd‑party data insights to inform tactics and strategy. Growth & Opportunity Development: Affiliate partner sourcing — Identify new affiliate opportunities and partners. Affiliate enablement — Ensure the affiliate network has the tools and support needed to deliver strong results. Market and product insight — Gather market and product insights and incorporate them into strategy and tactical planning. Collaboration & Stakeholder Management: Cross‑team collaboration — Work with the wider team to create affiliate marketing materials. Stakeholder management — Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including market managers, API teams, MarTech, Data Engineering, Supplier Marketing, Performance Marketing, and affiliate networks. What You will Bring: Strong understanding of affiliate channels, partner models, and performance levers. Ability to deploy, optimise, and scale campaigns across multiple markets. Analytics and data visualisation software experience (Adobe, Power BI). 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. We Are RS: 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. Rewards: Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company. Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include: Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme) Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values