Affiliate Marketing, Vice President

VP of Affiliate MarketingThe 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 VerticalsOversee 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 teamsDrive 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 expansionOversee 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 executionCollaborate 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 strategiesApply 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 firms 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:6-10 years of experience in development of marketing, product or offer strategy, and/or actively managing channel(s) to target prospects. Affiliate marketing experience strongly preferred.Experience in project management for marketing campaigns is essentialInnovation experience originating new marketing channels, product launches, or complex projectsFamiliarity with basic reporting, credit cards P&L models, and fundamental analytic tacticsStrong communication, presentation and influencing skillsStrong proficiency with Excel and PowerPoint with an aptitude to quickly learn new systems, platforms and softwareFinancial services industry experience preferredEducation:Bachelor's/University degree, Master's degree preferredLeadership Competencies:Self-starter who is able to be partner-focused, maintaining strategic vision while diving into the details of coordinating multiple projects with varying timelines simultaneouslyAbility to inspire, establish team priorities and allocate workload across multi-person internal and agency teamOutstanding facilitator, able to partner with business products leads and stakeholders to brainstorm, evaluate, select, and implement solutions on affiliate marketing needsResourceful and pragmatic problem-solver, forward thinker with independence of thoughtSuperior attention to detail, with a process-oriented mindsetExcellent interpersonal, listening, relationship building and negotiations skillsDemonstrated ability to manage multiple tasks/projects simultaneously and drive solutions to complex problemsComfortable operating in a highly matrixed, complex environmentStrong sense of accountability and decisiveness in a strong work ethic culture