Digital Marketing Lead - Affiliates

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re one of the biggest supermarkets in the UK, with one of the largest retail websites. So marketing here happens at scale. We move faster than you might expect too, across Brand Planning, Brand Comms and Creative, Digital Marketing, CRM and Loyalty, Nectar 360 and Insights. With more people shopping with us every week, there are more interactions, more moments to connect. And thanks to data and insight, we understand our customers in a way few others can. We work alongside incredible brand partners and some of the best agencies in the industry. So if you’re passionate about learning, growing and experiencing new teams, come and explore it all with us.

Why join us

Join our Digital Marketing team and play a key role in shaping and growing affiliate marketing across our multi-brand business. As our Digital Marketing Lead – Affiliates, you’ll have the opportunity to develop an industry-leading affiliate strategy, working across incentive, loyalty and content partners to drive incremental sales and customer growth. With investment in technology, data and our in-house capabilities, you’ll be joining at an exciting point in our affiliate journey, with plenty of opportunity to innovate, influence and make a real commercial impact.

What you'll do

As our Digital Marketing Lead – Affiliates, you’ll own and develop our affiliate marketing strategy and plan across our brands, ensuring activity is brilliantly planned, optimised and measured. You’ll build strong relationships with affiliate and agency partners, lead projects that improve our technology and capabilities, and use data, analytics and research to continually improve performance. Working closely with teams across Marketing and Trading, you’ll make sure our affiliate activity supports our wider customer and commercial goals, while owning significant budgets and helping evolve how we measure incrementality, make investment decisions and drive innovation across the channel.

Who you are

You’re an experienced affiliate marketing professional with deep knowledge of the channel and a strong understanding of what drives brilliant commercial performance. You’re confident working with data, analytics and budgets, and know how to turn insight into smarter decisions and stronger campaigns. Strategic and commercially minded, you’re also highly organised and comfortable juggling multiple projects and priorities at once. You’ll bring strong relationship-building skills, confidence working with agencies and affiliate partners, and the ability to influence stakeholders across the business to deliver great results.

Essential criteria

• Hands-on experience within affiliate marketing, with strong knowledge of the affiliate channel and wider industry.
• Experience using data and campaign analytics to understand performance and inform marketing and investment decisions.
• Proven experience managing significant marketing budgets, with confidence managing and challenging campaign financials.
• Project management experience, with the ability to manage multiple campaigns, projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Experience building and managing relationships with affiliate partners, agencies and internal stakeholders.

• Experience manipulating data, including intermediate Excel skills such as pivot tables and lookups.

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We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:

Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.

Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.