Job Description

Junior Affiliate Manager - Betting & Gaming

Location:

London

Department:

The Sun

Salary Details:

Not Specified

Advertising End Date:

28 Aug 2023



We are News UK: One of the leading media businesses in the UK and Ireland, our newsbrands include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Sun, The Sun on Sunday and The TLS. Our national broadcast brands include talkSPORT, Times Radio, talkRADIO and Virgin Radio UK, and we have market-leading local radio stations across Ireland. In 2022 we launched TalkTV, a major new TV channel available to everyone across the UK, delivering a schedule of news, current affairs, entertainment and sport, with Piers Morgan in a primetime evening show. Our world-famous brands provide news, analysis, opinion and entertainment to almost 40 million people each month. Spanning digital and print, audio and video, events and experiences, our brands are home to a plurality of opinion, representing the diverse communities we serve. News UK is wholly owned by News Corp.

Your role: Supporting The Sun\'s Betting & Gaming Affiliate business. This role plays a key function in the acquisition and retention of customers to drive revenue for the business. Reporting into the Senior Partnerships Manager, you\'ll be responsible for delivery of all contractual agreements with our partners and developing new ways to drive growth from the business.

Day to day you will:

• Delivery of all elements of activation within bookmaker partner contracts in an accurate and timely manner

Account management and relationship building with key partners and bookmakers

Ensure all bookmaker tracking links and Terms & Conditions are accurate and working correctly at all times within the The Sun, Irish Sun, Scottish Sun & Dream Team products

Creation of affiliate marketing tracking links within relevant sports articles to promote various bookmaker partners

Manage CRM activity across Sun Racing ensuring correct bookmaker offers are visible where appropriate

Work closely with the content teams to ensure the betting content schedule is delivered and offers are aligned

Support optimisation of the betting widgets on The Sun

Delivery of all weekly/monthly affiliate reports detailing performance

Taking on ad-hoc responsibilities as and when required to ensure the success of theBetting & Gaming department.

What we\'re looking for from you:

• Passionate strong team player with the ability to work with colleagues across departments and locations

Keen interest and knowledge in sports and/or bettingAn eye for detail, being analytical for reporting purposes to enhance the affiliate programme

Commercially astute demonstrating strong negotiation skills

Technically proficient with core business IT programmes and the ability to adapt and learn new systems

A self-starter with the ability to thrive in fast paced environments & keen to progress within the role

Enjoy working to tight deadlines and managing different projects at the same time

A creative and logical thinker, demonstrating skills in problem solving

Experience in Partnerships/Marketing Executive role or similar

Life at News : At News UK our people are our heartbeat - they are the driving force behind our brands and we want to enable people to thrive. Some of us work flexibly, in many different ways. We encourage you to talk to us about the flexibility you would like. Many of us work in a hybrid way between one of the News UK & Ireland offices and remotely.

We championdiversity and inclusion (https://www.news.co.uk/diversity-and-inclusion-at-news-uk/) , we strive to maximise and encourage every individual\'s potential and ensure everyone feels valued. We support this through our Diversity Board, D&I strategy & training, creating more diverse content and our intern and apprenticeship programmes. We also have 11 employee-led networks.

We take pride in looking after our amazing talent at News UK supporting theHealth and Wellbeingof our staff. Some of what we offer includes:

• A generous pension scheme with employer contributions of up to 5%;

25 days holiday and up to 4 volunteering days per year;

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 insuranc ecovering pre-existing conditions

Discounted gym memberships , ClassPass at Home, weekly virtual HIIT, yoga and run club classes

\'Bikes for Work\' scheme

Access to wellbeing benefits such as physio/massage and counselling

We want to ensure that everyone we meet has the opportunity to perform to their best when interviewing. Please let us know, at any stage, whether you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, and we will do our best to accommodate.

News UK is an official partner of the Journalism Diversity Fund, founder of the Journalism and Disability Forum, and proud member of the Valuable 500. At News UK, we will continue to promote an inclusive and diverse workplace, to help people with visible and non visible disabilities create careers in media and aim to make our content accessible to all.

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