Affiliate Marketing, Vice President

Affiliate Marketing, Vice President

Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Job Overview

The VP of Affiliate Marketing will serve as the External Affiliates Acquisitions Strategy Lead responsible for developing the affiliate and lead aggregator acquisitions strategy for Branded and Cobrand Cards and potentially other verticals. The marketer will have a primary focus on identifying new opportunities and partners across the evolving digital acquisitions landscape, developing new aggregator channel capabilities, leading special projects and product launches, establishing audience and targeting strategies, and communicating results to senior leadership and cross-functional partners. All this must be accomplished with a hyper focus on quality control, accuracy, and on-time flawless execution. Examples of past and current initiatives include : affiliate email campaigns, personalized and / or pre-approved offers, high-impact aggregator tactics and placements, and targeted cross-sell campaigns.

Beyond overseeing the development of channel strategy and capabilities, the External Affiliates Acquisitions Strategy Lead will also be responsible for creating and managing execution of marketing campaigns to our target segments. This includes creative optimization, campaign planning and calendar management, spearheading control and quality assurance, and tracking performance. Maintaining strong relationships across multiple teams and partnerships, managing our external agency, and overseeing day-to-day project management will be critical to success.

Responsibilities :

• Lead the development of Affiliate / Aggregator Channel acquisitions strategies across new-to-channel Products and Verticals
• Oversee channel capability development efforts including personalized offers, pre-qualified offers, third party data integration, etc.
• Support management and prioritization of workload across multi-person internal and agency teams
• Drive channel acquisitions growth through understanding the competitive landscape, optimizing existing channel performance, and identifying new messaging, targeting, or capability opportunities.
• Contribute to the test & learn roadmap for the Affiliate Channel, with a focus on enhanced targeting and modeling, creative and offer optimization, and audience expansion
• Oversee end-to-end campaign management process across marketing campaigns from campaign setup to deployment to reporting & auditing, with an extreme focus on detail and flawless execution
• Collaborate with business partners to identify efficiencies and improve effectiveness in our acquisition channels through innovations in strategy, targeting, process and new capabilities.
• Partner with internal stakeholders and business planning teams on reporting, tracking and forecasting to help evaluate program performance, aiding in the development of future strategies
• Apply critical thinking skills to identify and size new acquisition opportunities, assess customer impacts, and make new recommendations to drive business growth.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications :

Education :

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Leadership Competencies :