Entry Level Affiliate Marketing Manager Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Role Specific Information

Job Description

This role is based at our Corporate Office in Menomonee Falls, WI. You'll work onsite from Monday through Thursday, with the option to work remotely on Fridays.

About the Role

In this role, you will support the end-to-end execution of the Affiliate channel by managing partner relationships, platform operations, and performance optimization. The role helps translate strategic plans and budgets into activated partner investments, ensures accurate tracking and commission governance, and delivers reporting and insights to drive profitable, incremental growth.

What You'll Do

• Support strategic planning, budgeting, and forecast pacing by tracking spend, performance, and partner-level ROI

• Help translate annual and quarterly plans into executed partner investments, rate structures, and activation calendars

• Own Affiliate platform operations including partner onboarding, tracking links, product feeds, and creative assets

• Ensure accurate attribution, commission setup, and compliance across all partner types

• Monitor industry trends and regularly benchmark competitors to proactively optimize programs, identify white-space partner opportunities, and ensure program efficiency within the evolving affiliate landscape

• Serve as the primary day-to-day contact for a portfolio of Affiliate partners

• Manage partner communications, approvals, and relationship health

• Coordinate campaign launches, content activations, and promotional placements

• Monitor partner performance across traffic, conversion, revenue, commission, and ROI

• Identify underperforming partners, leakage, and commission inefficiencies

• Surface opportunities to drive incrementality and improve profitable growth

• Produce and maintain reporting across partner segments, including clicks, revenue, commission, and ROI

• Analyze partner mix trends and performance shifts to identify risks and opportunities

• Ability to quickly establish strong working relationships with key partners while maintaining a high level of attention to detail and accountability

• Additional tasks may be assigned

What Skills You Have

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Communications, Business or a related field, or equivalent experience

• 2+ years of experience in marketing within a retail or consumer-focused organization

Preferred

• Understanding of the Affiliate Marketing Industry

Essential Functions

The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl's may revise this job description from time to time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.

• Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the "What You'll Do" Section

• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance as set by the company

• Ability to work at least 8 hours per day, occasionally longer when necessary to meet business needs, 5 days per week

• Ability to comply with dress code requirements

• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines

• Ability to give direction and receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel

• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others

• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes

• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs

• Perform work in accordance with the Physical/Cognitive Requirements section

Physical/Cognitive Requirements

• Ability to use a computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.

• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units

• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner

• Ability to comply with health and safety standards