Senior Affiliate Executive
Why loveholidays?
At loveholidays - we trailblaze together. We’re on a mission to open the world to everyone, giving our customers’ unlimited choice, unmatched ease and unmissable value for their next getaway. Our team is the driving force behind our role as our customers’ personal holiday expert - the smart way to get away.
We’re using progressive tech to drive cutting-edge innovation and open the world to everyone. Within our Commercial and Support teams, you'll find a place to accelerate your growth by actively seeking learning opportunities and carving your own path. You'll create impact for our future by owning projects and shaping the business strategy to reach shared goals, all within our enhanced international community of collaborative and passionate teams.
About the team:
Our Partnerships team plays a crucial role in driving the success of the business as it is a key growth lever and our fastest growing marketing channel. Partnerships at loveholidays is at a particularly exciting juncture in its evolution, diversifying our partner channel mix and shaping the Performance Marketing and Commercial strategy for the business. There is no better time to join this thriving team!
The impact you’ll have:
Reporting into the Head of Partner Marketing, the Senior Affiliate Executive will play a key role in driving growth across the UK & Ireland markets. You will own the planning, execution and optimisation of our partner-led growth strategy, spanning affiliate marketing and strategic partnerships.
This role is pivotal in scaling performance across established and emerging partner channels, strengthening commercial relationships, and unlocking incremental, profitable demand through innovative partnerships.
Your day-to-day:
Develop, implement and optimise partner marketing campaigns across UK & IE to deliver against core business KPIs (revenue, profit, ROI).
Own and grow the affiliate programme, managing top-performing partners while identifying and onboarding new opportunities.
Build and develop a pipeline of strategic partnerships, including content, commercial, distribution and embedded-style opportunities that drive long-term value.
Own the commercial relationship with partners, including negotiations, forecasting, testing and ongoing optimisation.
Act as the voice of the partner, translating partner requirements into clear, prioritised actions for technical, analytics and product teams.
Conduct in-depth performance analysis across channels, surfacing actionable insights and recommendations.
Identify and test new growth opportunities, including new partners, formats and commercial models.
Attend relevant industry events to stay close to best practice, platform innovation and market trends.
Your skillset:
Proven experience managing affiliate and partner marketing programmes, ideally within travel, e-commerce or performance-driven environments.
Hands-on experience working with affiliate networks, including tracking, validations, reporting and creative management.
Commercially minded with a strong track record of driving revenue and bookings through partnerships.
Highly analytical, with the ability to translate complex data into clear insights and actions.
Confident relationship builder, able to influence both external partners and internal stakeholders.
Strong negotiation, communication and presentation skills.
Highly organised and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, performance-led environment.
Ability to balance operational excellence with strategic thinking and experimentation.
Desirable (optional):
Knowledge and understanding of the travel sector
Perks of joining us:
Company pension contributions at 5%.
Individualised training budget for you to learn on the job and level yourself up.
Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends.
25 days of holidays per annum (plus 8 public holidays) increases by 1 day for every second year of service, up to a maximum 30 days per annum.
Ability to buy and sell annual leave.
Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers.
At loveholidays, we focus on developing an inclusive culture and environment that encourages personal growth and collective success. Each individual offers unique perspectives and ideas that increase the diversity and effectiveness of our teams. And we value the insight and potential you could bring on our continued journey.
The interview journey:
Intro with a member of the Talent Team - 30 mins
1st stage with Director of Perfomance Marketing - 45 mins
Final stage with key stakeholder/s including a task to present, in office - 1 hour