Trading Manager - Connectivity Affiliates & Partnerships

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 6 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

The Trading Manager is responsible for driving performance for our affiliate and partner channel – encompassing tracking, forecasting, making recommendations, and ultimately contributing to the success of the Affiliates route-to-market for Sky. This role sits in the Affiliates team within Digital Marketing, reporting to the Trading Lead.   

What you’ll do:   

• Drive performance through data & insight:  

• Weekly and quarterly reporting, analysis and interrogation of Affiliate performance against core KPIs  

• Understand the effectiveness of our Affiliate programme, including incrementality of any activity (price changes, tenancy, vouchers etc)  

• Produce value add insight on latest performance trends, and develop recommendations for optimisations/mitigation opportunities to drive volume, revenue & EBIT growth  

• Planning & Forecasting – Coordinate with the Commercial team on quarterly plans & own updates and track risks and opportunities vs plan  

• Own the message – Be the voice of in quarter Affiliate performance, with clear & concise storytelling  

• Build business cases for new strategic initiatives in Affiliates  

• Collaborate with the wider Digital, Commercial, Trading Performance and Finance teams to ensure the Sky leadership team makes informed and timely decisions  

What you’ll bring: 

• Comfortable with data – able to work complex data sets; perform analysis and be confident in drawing recommendations, even with incomplete information  

• Inquisitive – Natural curiosity to find out more about what’s driving performance and customer behaviour, and bring new insights and optimisations to the table  

• Commercially astute – experience of tracking and optimising a set of key critical metrics, and understanding of financial impacts of decisions  

• Strong collaboration with excellent interpersonal skills to build relationships with stakeholders  

• Confident communicator - good presentation skills and ability to turn analysis into stories tailored to the audience. 

The Rewards:
 

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• Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place

• The magic of Sky Glass at an exclusive rate

• A generous pension package

• Private healthcare

• Discounted mobile and broadband

• A wide range of Sky VIP rewards and experiences

How you’ll work:

At Sky, we want to be a community that thrives by being together. Flexible working remains a key part of that. We want our people to have the best of both worlds – time working at home, as well as time in the office.

The hybrid working expectations for this role are 3 days in the office per week.

Your office base:

Osterley:

Our Osterley Campus is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane train station. Or you can hop on one of our free shuttle buses that run to and from Osterley, Gunnersbury, Ealing Broadway and South Ealing tube stations. There’s also plenty of bike shelters and showers.

On campus, you’ll find 13 subsidised restaurants, cafes, and a Waitrose. You can keep in shape at our subsidised gym, catch the latest shows and movies at our cinema, get your car washed and even get pampered at our beauty salon.

Inclusion:

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We’re a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and welcome and encourage applications from all candidates. We’ll look to ensure a fair and consistent experience for all and will make reasonable adjustments to support you where appropriate. Please flag any adjustments you need to your recruiter as early as you can.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

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Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.