Affiliate Development Manager
Overview
Winferno Software is seeking a highly motivated business development professional to drive new revenues through the identification, acquisition and management of new partners and affiliates. The successful candidate will be a critical member of our growing marketing team, and possess a blend of both marketing aptitude and technical competence.
Responsibilities
• Negotiate and close new affiliate partnerships. Follow up on new partnerships to ensure that they are activated and producing results.
• Work with Affiliate partners to drive customers to Winferno and partner sites.
• Work with Affiliates to grow revenue by developing and managing targeted and mass affiliate acquisition, activation and strategic merchandising initiatives.
• Analyze performance of revenue driving initiatives and translate performance into actionable growth opportunities.
• Create targeted Affiliate prospect lists for key verticals.
• Manage Winferno’s strategies for acquiring more affiliates into the Network.
• Develop, maintain, and extend relationships with affiliates both in and not yet in the Winferno Network. Serve as main point of contact for largest affiliates.
Requirements
• Candidate will have a minimum of 1-5 years’ experience in direct marketing, retailing, and online media functions.
• Bachelors degree required, advanced degrees a plus.
• Proven sales experience with the capacity to identify needs, showcase benefits, overcome objections and close business.
• Exemplary written and oral communication skills, plus strong presentation skills.
• Strong analytical and strategic marketing skills.
• Strong customer relationship building skills are also essential, with an ability to communicate with strategic accounts on a high level.
• Planning and project management skills – setting and meeting aggressive deadlines. Prioritizing and strategizing based on corporate goals.
• Problem solving, thinking creatively and using professional judgment.
• Demonstrated success in measuring results and setting, meeting, and exceeding aggressive quantitative goals.
• Must be able to quickly develop facility with proprietary software to manage campaigns and report results. Solid proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint for client-ready reports and presentations.
• HTML knowledge a plus.
About Winferno Software
Founded in 2000, Winferno Software is a profitable, privately held corporation based in Boston, Massachusetts which develops and markets new software technology for internet research, productivity, and security applications. Among its suite of products, Winferno developed Secure IE™ to protect consumers from web browser security threats, a menace not satisfactorily addressed by other products on the market. In additional to safeguarding users from Internet-based dangers, Secure IE enhances productivity and can speed downloads up to 5x faster than a standard browser. Winferno is also dedicated to providing research professionals with a powerful suite of tools, offering Research-Desk™, productivity software that has been inducted into the Microsoft Windows User Group Network’s Hall of Fame. The company has patents pending for the technology underlying its core products, Research-Desk and Secure IE.
For immediate consideration, please email your resume to
careers@winferno.com
Please use “JC103: Affiliate Development Manager” as the subject line of the email.
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