Mindshare Neo Account Manager, Affiliate

**The Role**

Based in Singapore, the Affiliate Manager is an integral position within the affiliate marketing function for Mindshare, working across clients and affiliates to drive successful campaigns in Asia Pacific.

**Principal Accountabilities**
- Act as the Affiliate Manager on multiple blue-chip clients within Neo’s regional Affiliate Marketing team
- Develop relationships with stakeholders within clients and large affiliate partners.
- Have an analytical approach whilst working on reporting and performance metrics to draw insight and make strategic recommendations to clients to optimize their affiliate program
- Identify and recommend new opportunities to grow the business and increase efficiency for clients
- Responsibility for financial management from an external perspective, monitoring client budget and spend
- Educate partners unfamiliar with affiliate to enable them to work with our clients
- Pro-actively approach and recruit new publisher partners
- Build and deliver strategy alongside the client and Affiliate Director
- Compiling and presenting results to the client
- Meet and host affiliate partner events

**Skills**
- In-depth knowledge of affiliate / partnership marketing and the best practice on how affiliate programs are managed
- Strong new business and performance delivery track record
- Commercial awareness and proficiency in managing client scopes and profitability
- Strong time management and organizational skills
- Seeks ownership and readily accepts accountability
- Some familiarity with reporting platforms (affiliate networks/tools) and how they are used to manage campaign performance
- Proven ability to develop strong internal and external business relationships

**Requirements**:

- Educated to university degree level
- A minimum of 4 years digital marketing experience with a preference for 2 of these years to be in an affiliate marketing focused role
- Experience of working with Chinese market or Australian market is a must
- Must be fluent in Mandarin to manage the Chinese market (full professional proficiency for speaking and simplified Chinese for writing)
- Must be fluent in English (speaking and writing)

**3 Best Things About The Job**
- Being part of a very supportive and understanding team that collaborate to achieve goals together.
- Working with some of the most renowned global brands and gaining an understanding and insights into the APAC marketplace as a whole.
- Working in an organisation that really appreciates its staff and goes above and beyond with training, duty of care, healthcare etc

**Measures Of Succes - 3 Months**
- Begin to develop deep client relationships with the key day-to-day contacts
- Identifies new opportunities to increase acquisitions
- Ensures affiliate strategy is market leading & provide market insights
- Have a clear understanding of the day-to-day implementation and reporting tools utilised by the team

**Measures Of Succes - 6 Months**
- Leads quarterly reviews and project plans for your market
- Assists in development of affiliate strategy and ensures the delivery of all aspects of the affiliate strategy
- Maintains a healthy relationship with affiliate partners and affiliate implementation team
- Leads affiliate aspect on brief responses
- Leads affiliate vetting process
- Offer management
- Negotiating tactical campaigns with affiliates
- Be involved with annual negotiations in order to maximise client sponsorship investment

**Measures Of Succes - 12 Months**
- Lead APAC client relationships, ensuring that client servicing is first class
- Part of the training & development process for junior team members
- Ensure the clients are kept up to date of APAC affiliate media landscape, providing necessary media information and updates, competitor reports, etc.

**More About Mindshare NEO**

Mindshare is a media services company that accelerates Good Growth for its clients. Our company values of energy, empathy and impact bind together our diverse global family of 10,000 people from every culture and with every specialist skill you can imagine. You can check out some of our people’s stories on LinkedIn or Instagram or hear about the company in their own words here. Mindshare is part of GroupM, the world’s leading media investment company, and WPP, the world’s largest advertising holding group.

Neo is a full-service digital media agency and a fully integrated division of the WPP Group, the world’s largest advertising company. With more than 800 employees across 40 worldwide offices Neo puts performance, innovation and accountability at the heart of every client engagement.

**About Singapore**

GroupM Singapore operates in one of the most dynamic and exciting environments in the world. Although it is a small domestic market, there is a vibrant media industry which is undergoing rapid evolution as digital technology reshapes the way marketing supports advertisers’ needs. Being at the crossroads of Asia means, that aside from t