Manager, eCommerce Partnerships

Forbes Vetted is seeking a 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 on a category-level, specifically related to paid opportunities and commission optimizations
• Meeting with and pitching new direct partnerships to retailers
• Onboarding new retailers
• Securing higher commission rates and better deal terms
• Selling paid programs to portfolio of advertisers
• Build, manage and maintain partnership development workflows and tracking 
• Put together proposals for new paid programs and respond to RFPs from your book of business
• Model out incremental revenue opportunities for commission-based proposals
• Support the proposal process for larger-scale paid programs and sponsored weeks across Forbes Vetted
• Prospect and penetrate organizations to drive alignment and influence executive and day-to-day contacts to execute against account plan
• Communicate with an account manager on opportunities for strategic partnership execution and opportunities for editorial coverage. 
• Execute on contract negotiation and management for paid programs
• Create and present persuasive data-driven sales presentations with a focus on client retention and reinvestment as the goal.

The ideal candidate:

•  2-4 years of performance marketing experience and/or brand advertising experience
• 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 sale tracking 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 $90,000 - $95,000

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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