Affiliate Marketing Executive

Affiliates Executive - Hybrid - 2 days per week in Cardiff office 

Confused.com is the UK’s first comparison platform for car insurance. We’ve been helping customers since 2002 by empowering them to make better decisions around insurance and financial services. Our mission is simple: take away the confusion when comparing financial products and services to help you save time and money.

We’re part of RVU, a group of online brands (including Uswitch, Tempcover and

(url removed)) that empowers people to make confident decisions across a range of

household services.

What’s the role?

An exciting opportunity has come up in the Affiliates team at Confused.com.

We’re looking for an Affiliate Marketing Executive who is passionate about finding new partners to promote Confused.com, making more customers aware of the great deals that we offer. You’ll work with our in-house affiliate team and agency to identify and negotiate deals with websites and apps to drive traffic to Confused.com. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Responsible for reaching out to new partners for a range of insurance products.
• Working with the existing members of the affiliate team to formulate strategies for growth. 
• Ensuring all campaigns deliver against our targeted budgets, taking into consideration revenue, spend and ROI
• Working with other teams within the Marketing department to come up with new and creative ways of improving performance. This includes  landing pages, messaging, and ways to help our customers.
• Assisting with invoice processing and monthly spend reports.
• Updating monthly performance data for our affiliate partners.
• Using data to identify new and existing opportunities to drive increased levels of profit and revenue for the business.
• Optimising existing partnerships with A/B testing of offers, copy and creative as well as reporting on their performance.

What you’ll bring to the role:

Essentials:

• Previous experience on Affiliate Marketing campaigns in a fast-paced environment
• An analytical background with the ability to manipulate data into actionable insights, as well as a solid understanding of budgets and ROI
• Confidence in speaking to agencies and partners in a range of activities including product updates, account changes and negotiations
• Techniques on how to approach new partners and work within a set budget to get maximum return on investment
• Knowledge of other areas of marketing such as PPC, SEO or Email would be desirable
• Proactive attitude with lots of enthusiasm, personality and commitment
• A strong and confident communicator, with exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Strong planning and organisational skills with the ability to work to strict deadlines and manage multiple products and campaigns simultaneously

You don’t need to tick off everything on this list - so don’t let that hold you back from

applying. We want to make sure you’re learning plenty during your time with us!

Our commitment to you:

At RVU we believe that we can be the change we wish to see in the world. We hold

ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and community

members. We embrace our differences and are committed to creating an inclusive

environment that reflects the world we live in.

Benefits

We want to give you a great work environment. We want to contribute to both your personal and professional development, and give you great benefits to make your time at Confused.com even more enjoyable. Some of these benefits include:

• A competitive salary and bonus package
• Employer matching pension up to 7.5%
• A hybrid approach of in-office and remote working, and a “Work from Home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Annual leave of 25 days (excluding bank holidays) which will increase with length of service (up to a maximum of 30 days) and additional leave options.
• A ‘Work from Home’ budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
• Excellent maternity, paternity and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Simply Health Scheme and access to the Calm app.
• Regular events - company-wide events with insightful external speakers as we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.
• A healthy learning and training budget, as well as the chance to go to conferences around the world every year
• Private medical scheme