Affiliate Executive – Times Travel

Affiliate Executive – Times Travel

Location: London

Department: Times Media

Salary Details: Not Specified

Advertising End Date: 09 Dec 2024

Job Description

Your team: The Times and Sunday Times are two of the most respected and trusted news publications in the world. Our mission is to deliver quality journalism and information to our readers, while fostering a deep understanding of the world around us.

Your role: Will report to the Affiliates Manager, this role is responsible for sourcing appropriate travel products; holidays, cruises, tours, hotels and ancillary products and adding affiliate links into editorial content from a range of suppliers pre-approved by editorial and aligned with audience insight and market data.

Day to day you will:

1. Work closely with the travel editorial team to ensure their approved supplier list is up to date and on affiliate networks.
2. Sourcing appropriate travel product/offers that are relevant to the content; add links which drive through to a sale.
3. Generate tracked urls from multiple platforms and integrate them to content in the CMS / WordPress site.
4. Administer merchandising of special deals from affiliate partners, ensuring deals are up to date at all times across the website.
5. Sourcing offers for the weekly travel newsletter. Collecting assets from partners, and getting their approval for the newsletter draft within the deadline.
6. Conduct reporting and analysis of affiliate revenue and assist with weekly trading updates.
7. Assist the Travel Partnerships team with ad-hoc requests as required.

What we’re looking for from you:

1. A broad knowledge of travel products and providers including touring and cruise.
2. Knowledge of holiday destinations and ability to offer a variety of holidays/trips.
3. Experience within the travel online environment and familiarity with the latest travel trends.
4. Commercially driven, experience working to targets and KPIs.
5. Comfortable collaborating with suppliers to curate itineraries and promote these within articles in a CMS.
6. Customer-focused with an understanding of the importance of excellent service delivery.
7. Able to build rapport and communicate effectively at all levels.
8. Strong working knowledge of Excel and Google Sheets.

If you think you have what it takes but don’t tick every requirement on the list, please do apply. We recognise that considering someone’s potential as well as their experience is a great way to hire. We want to hear from people who have a passion to learn and develop.

We offer a flexible working arrangement where employees are expected to be in the office a minimum of three days per week. For the remaining two days, there is the option to work remotely if desired.

Benefits

• Maternity leave up to 18 weeks full basic salary & paternity leave up to 2 weeks.
• Wide range of training available, plus full LinkedIn Learning access.
• Private medical insurance including coverage for pre-existing conditions.
• Discounted gym memberships, free ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual yoga classes.
• ‘Bikes for Work’ and ‘Electric Car’ scheme.
• Up to 60% discount on Harper Collins books.
• Access to exclusive events and competitions with exciting brands such as talkSPORT, Virgin Radio UK & The Times. Weekly virtual panel chats with top journalists and celebrities.
• Access to wellbeing benefits such as EAP, physio/massage and counselling.
• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%.
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and up to 4 volunteering days per year.

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