{"id":1923061,"url":"https://alion.io/job/dentsu-affiliates-director","title":"Affiliates Director","company":{"id":888,"name":"dentsu","domain":"dentsu.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/dentsu-polska","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":81,"open_postings":163,"ghost_share":0.006,"stale_share":0.712,"repost_share":0.049,"time_to_fill_p50_days":22,"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"Finance","role_family":"Finance","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Manchester, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":74000,"max_usd":125000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":34},"experience_years_min":6,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-05T18:50:01Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-05","last_verified_at":"2026-10-19T03:03:36Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":13,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":13},"description":"The purpose of this role is to develop best in class strategies and management of all Affiliate Marketing activity on assigned clients, to manage and develop the team and serve as a point of escalation as needed.Job Description:\nROLE PURPOSE\nAs an Affiliate Director, your role will be focused on the strategical planning of both the Affiliate and Lead Generation client accounts to grow revenue and improving the capabilities and efficiencies of the team through the implementation of\nSuccess will be measured through improving account performance, growth in investment in Affiliates, internal audit scores, client growth and client retention.\nKEY ACCOUNTABILITIES\nYour responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:\nAct as strategic lead across client portfolio, ensuring best-in-class affiliate and lead generation practices are consistently delivered, client KPIs are achieved, and innovative, performance-driving solutions are implemented.\nStay at the forefront of affiliate marketing trends, proactively sharing insights with internal teams and embedding best practice across all accounts.\nDevelop and produce thought-leadership content for industry publications to showcase dentsu’s affiliate expertise and challenge industry norms to advance channel innovation.\nLead, mentor, and develop Senior Managers and Managers, ensuring high levels of client satisfaction, strong performance delivery, and continuous professional growth.\nDrive client revenue growth by identifying and executing new initiatives, and leveraging upsell and cross-sell opportunities across the wider dentsu network.\nCollaborate with internal Excellence teams to ensure processes, outputs, and ways of working meet industry-leading standards.\nEnsure adherence to client Statements of Work (SOWs), with effective resource management to align team effort with contractual commitments.\nPartner with Affiliate leadership to develop and commercialise new Affiliate and Lead Generation products for existing agency clients.\nDefine and lead client strategy, ensuring alignment across all Senior Managers and Managers on approach, execution, and delivery frameworks.\nOwn team development initiatives, building capability through structured training, coaching, and performance management.\nSupport Affiliate Partner and Managing Partner on HR matters, contributing to team wellbeing, performance, and organisational effectiveness.\nProfessional Skills\n\nStrong grounding in wider digital media, with advanced understanding of how each channel impacts one another.\nIn depth knowledge of Affiliates, keeping up to date with the latest trends, updates and techniques.\nStrong commercial understanding\nAdvanced project management skills for managing client expectations, improving team processes.\nAbility to pre-empt issues and be creative and pro-active in producing solutions.\n\nRole Capabilities\nAbility to pre-empt issues and be creative and pro-active in producing solutions.\nIn depth knowledge of the wider Affiliate industry, keeping up to date with the latest trends, updates and technologies across all networks and publisher types.\nSupport the Affiliate Partner in driving channel growth and product innovation.\nBe responsible for the delivery of revenue across all clients within the Affiliate and Lead Generation team.\nPoint of escalation for all clients.\nQualify all potential cross sell and/or up-sell opportunities\nSupport the Affiliate Partner and Managing Partner on new business pitches.\nExpert in creating and managing processes, with a particular focus on efficiencies and time saving initiatives for full team benefits.\nAdaptable beyond the core aspect of the role. \nRole modelling our values and behaviours at all times.\nTraining of other members in the affiliate community.\nManagement of Senior Managers/Managers within the team.\nKey Experiences\nExperience owning the strategy on large affiliate programmes\n6+ years’ experience in Affiliate channel either client-side, at a network, at an agency or publisher-side\n3+ years’ experience in team management and/or mentoring and coaching others\nPassionate about the affiliate channel, with a keen interest in the development of affiliate technology as a channel, keeping track of new developments within the industry.\nABOUT DENTSU INTERNATIONAL \n Part of dentsu, dentsu international headquartered in London operates in over 145 markets worldwide with more than 48,000 dedicated specialists. We help clients to win, keep and grow their best customers and achieve meaningful progress for their businesses. With best-in-class services and solutions in media, CXM, and creative. www.dentsu.com\nWORKING WITH US Joining dentsu international, you’ll join a team of 48,000 people. It’s an opportunity to produce career-defining work. Along the way, you’ll team up with inspiring colleagues and encounter a richness of clients, cultures, and experiences. We offer exciting challenges, memorable experiences, and opportunities to shape your future.\nDIVERSITY AND INCLUSION\n We’re proud to be different and that starts with our people. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone. We won’t define people by their race, gender, sexual-orientation, age, or disability. Individuality is what makes us great, we want everyone to bring their full self to work and create something amazing. That’s what we care about. So, whether you’re joining us, or looking to move to a different part of the business, we work hard to make sure we create equal opportunities for everyone. \nWe are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles - we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustment needs arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams. \n#LI-Hybrid\nLocation:\nManchester - Bonded WarehouseBrand:\nAmplifiTime Type:\nFull timeContract Type:\nPermanent","description_format":"text","description_chars":6016,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Media & Entertainment","Creative Agencies","E-commerce Marketing","Digital Marketing"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-05T18:50:01Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"GB","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"Licensed UK visa sponsor (Skilled Worker, Senior or Specialist Worker)","filings_12m":null,"filings_prev_12m":null,"green_card_filings_12m":null,"median_offered_wage_usd":null,"route":"Skilled Worker; Global Business Mobility: Senior or Specialist Worker","cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-17T06:21:15+00:00","sources":["UK Home Office: register of licensed sponsors (workers)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":56,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.624,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":11,"expected_fill_days":22,"reasons":["conf:4","stale_co","velocity","win:mid","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/dentsu-affiliates-director","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/dentsu-affiliates-director.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-19T05:39:24Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3437,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-20T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":888},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=888"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fdentsu-affiliates-director"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fdentsu-affiliates-director"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fdentsu-affiliates-director"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/dentsu-affiliates-director\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fdentsu-affiliates-director"}]}