Affiliate Marketing Executive

The role

You will source and sign new affiliate and influencer partners to drive incremental customer acquisition. You will own the full new-partner funnel including mapping, outbound outreach, and negotiating CPA or fixed-fee deals.

What you will do

• Map the affiliate and influencer landscape to identify new partners
• Run outbound outreach and pitch new affiliates and influencers
• Negotiate and close new commercial deals primarily CPA or fixed-fee
• Own onboarding and activation of every new partner
• Negotiate commercial terms with affiliates, influencers and sponsorship partners
• Track CAC by channel and partner against LTV
• Build and maintain the channel-economics view
• Manage affiliate network and platform relationships
• Run sponsorship and partnership activations end-to-end
• Manage budgets and timelines across activations

Required qualifications

• Proven track record sourcing and closing brand-new affiliate or influencer partnerships from scratch
• 2-3+ years in affiliate marketing, acquisition or performance marketing roles for a consumer brand
• Fluent in core acquisition performance metrics – CPA, fixed-fee, LTV, ROI and blended CAC
• Working knowledge of channel economics: payback period, cohort behaviour, and how partnership spend compares against other acquisition channels
• Direct experience running affiliate and/or influencer partnership end to end, including commercial negotiation
• Track record of running activations end-to-end and delivering measurable results
• Strong account / relationship management skills
• Comfortable with the data — channel economics, attribution and ROI
• Highly organised and detail-oriented
• Strong commercial communicator
• Demonstrable use of AI in your workflow

Nice to have

• Experience in fintech or financial services
• Experience with sport, entertainment, media or large brand sponsorships
• Experience with an affiliate network or tracking platform (e.g. Impact, Awin, CJ, Partnerize, Income access) and reading platform-level reporting unassisted
• Experience building an affiliate or influencer programme from 0 to 1 in a consumer brand

Benefits

• Flexible working
• Socials and connection opportunities
• Private health cover
• Retirement savings plans
• Employee referral programme
• Fully stocked kitchen
• Complimentary lunches on in-office days at select locations
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes in select locations

About the company

Lendable is a fintech company building technology to help people get credit and save money. It is one of the UK's most exciting unicorns with a team of over 800 people.