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Forbes Vetted is seeking a Senior Manager, eCommerce Partnerships to join the Forbes Vetted partnerships team. This role will be responsible for building, nurturing and growing our direct partnerships with retailers and networks under the guidance of the Director, eCommerce Partnerships.
Responsibilities:
- Define and own account plans to unlock investments and drive client’s business key performance metrics
- First point of contact for retail partners for paid opportunities and commission optimizations within your book of business
- Meet with and pitch new direct partnerships to retailers
- Onboard new strategic retailers
- Secure higher commission rates and optimal deal terms and model incremental revenue
- Create proposals for new, outbound BrandSolutions and respond to RFPs from assigned book of business
- Monitor performance for BrandSolutions opportunities and advise on performance improvement opportunities
- Develop a strong sales pipeline by integrating both affiliate, paid search and branding budgets into opportunities
- Own and operate at least one strategy-driven workflow to improve outcomes for the entire team
- Evolve a book of business to include a strategic growth category
- Identify new and unique opportunities to bring to advertisers, such as new products, partnership management tactics or workflows
- Work with peers to improve our sales process in Salesforce, identifying and executing on opportunities for growth
- Identify and onboard new tools and work cross-functionally to implement
The ideal candidate:
- 4+ years of performance marketing experience and/or brand advertising experience
- Direct media sales experience a +
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing or a related field preferred
- Track record of reaching and exceeding business targets
- Experience with account management, sales or advertiser relations for a publisher
- Strong presentation and design skills in order to create beautiful pitches for our retailer partners
- Knowledge of the affiliate industry
- Ability to analyze affiliate data and create actionable insights
- Experience working with Salesforce and/or other CRM tools is a bonus
- Highly-organized and a problem solver
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
The annual base salary range for this role is $100,000 - $110,000
Forbes has estimated the compensation range set forth above in good faith. The compensation range is what we believe we will offer, and ultimately pay, a successful candidate. In determining this range, we consider the experience, level of education (if applicable to the role), knowledge, skills, and abilities required to be had by a successful candidate as well as the budget and the company’s pay rates, generally. This said, we may have to make changes to our compensation estimates and job descriptions from time to time and we expressly reserve the right to do so. Should we make any such changes, this advertisement will be revised to reflect such revisions. We encourage you to occasionally re-visit this advertisement to ensure that you are abreast of any changes. Thank you for your interest in joining Forbes!
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