118 118 Money
Partnerships Manager
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
About Us
At 118 118 Money, we are dedicated to helping Britain achieve financial fitness. In 2023, we proudly relaunched the iconic 118 118 twins, reaffirming our commitment to improving the financial health of individuals across the nation. Our loans and credit cards are designed specifically for those often overlooked by mainstream lenders, empowering over 800,000 customers on their journey to better financial well-being.
Our vision is to champion financial fitness throughout Britain by offering accessible products, valuable resources, and unwavering support. We are on a mission to provide fair and transparent credit solutions that promote financial well-being for all.
With an impressive 4.8 Trustpilot rating, we take pride in being an approachable lender, ready to provide clear financial support. If you’re inspired by what you’ve read and want to make a real difference in people's lives, keep reading - your next opportunity to contribute to our mission could be just a few clicks away!
What you’ll do
This is a high-impact commercial role at the heart of how 118 118 Money acquires customers. As Partnerships Manager, you will own the affiliate channel end-to-end, managing our relationships with key aggregator partners and driving new bookings to budget across credit cards and loans.
You will be a key member of the Marketing and Commercial teams, responsible not only for hitting volume targets but for doing so through the right mix of quality, compliance and commercial efficiency. This role demands both strategic thinking and exceptional operational rigour: you'll be running a daily performance check, maintaining rolling partner plans, and owning every initiative from hypothesis to documented outcome.
You will run a daily performance check across the full funnel, manage a live opportunity pipeline per partner and own every initiative from hypothesis to documented outcome.
You will work alongside Customer Growth, Marketing, Operations, Analysis, Tech and Compliance, acting as the connective tissue that ensures the affiliate channel performs with precision, consistency and integrity.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and develop the affiliate and aggregator channel strategy to drive sustainable growth across credit cards and loans.
- Build and maintain strong commercial relationships with key partners, ensuring 118 118 Money is positioned as a proactive and trusted partner.
- Manage channel performance to achieve agreed commercial, quality and customer outcome targets, identifying opportunities for optimisation and growth.
- Maintain a rolling 90-day plan per key partner covering promotions, optimisation priorities, risks and opportunities - updated regularly and used proactively, not reactively.
- Lead the delivery of initiatives across the affiliate channel from planning through to execution, ensuring alignment across Marketing, Operations, Compliance, Analysis and Tech teams.
- Oversee partner activity, promotions and customer journeys to ensure accuracy, compliance and a positive customer experience.
- Use data, insight and performance reporting to identify trends, evaluate effectiveness and drive continuous improvement across the channel by translating every insight into a clear action: Stop, Start, Scale, Fix or Test
- Manage operational and commercial risks proactively, ensuring issues are identified, triaged the same-day, escalated and resolved effectively.
- Maintain robust, audit-ready processes, reporting and governance standards to support a scalable, efficient and well-controlled affiliate operation.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
What You'll Need
- Proven experience in partnership management, affiliate marketing or business development, financial services / fintech experience is highly preferable.
- A strong commercial mindset with the ability to manage to budget across volume, quality and cost metrics.
- Exceptional relationship-building skills; partners should see you as a trusted, high-performing counterpart.
- Strong analytical skills: you are comfortable working with data daily, spotting anomalies quickly and translating insight into clear action.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to present performance insight to both technical and commercial audiences.
- Highly organised with proven ability to manage multiple workstreams, forward-plan with rigour and drive projects to completion.
- A continuous improvement mindset; always asking how we can do this better and disciplined enough to test, learn and document.
- A structured, test-and-learn approach; able to define a hypothesis, set a success metric, run a clean test and document the outcome.
- Experience working collaboratively across cross-functional teams (Marketing, Operations, Compliance, Analysis).
- Comfortable operating in a regulated environment; FCA familiarity is beneficial.
- Self-motivated, agile and able to operate independently in a fast-paced, dynamic business.
What's in it for you?
- A competitive salary
- Flexible, hybrid working opportunities.
- Company bonus scheme - if the business does well, you should get rewarded for your hard work.
- 25 days annual leave, (plus bank holidays) increasing to 27 after two years service and 30 after five.
- Company pension scheme – we provide an enhanced pension scheme with generous employer contributions to set you up for the future which includes life cover of 4x your base salary.
- Eye test – you can claim a freebie each year, or if your needs change.
- Employee Assistance Programme - we offer membership to a recognised scheme to support you and your wellbeing.
- A strong ethos of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- Wide business exposure, in terms of business disciplines, projects and stakeholders.
- Direct contribution to business transformation and growth.
- Huge learning and career progression opportunities.
- Being valued as an individual from our team.
- Full training, support and mentoring to develop a successful career in financial services.
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
Like what you’ve heard? Great - apply now!
As a candidate, we know the interview process can be daunting and it’s important that you have a great experience with us. We will do all we can to make sure you are fully informed and excited by our story so we get to see the best from you. If you need any adjustments made to help you with the interview process, just let us know by emailing claire.hinson@118118money.com and we’ll do our best to accommodate them.
Following your application, we will want to learn more about you, your motivations, experiences and values. In turn, you get to learn about our business, our culture, the role and what we can offer you.
If you think you’d be great for the role, but don’t necessarily tick all the boxes, we’d still love to hear from you, so apply today and take the first step towards an exciting future!
Equal Opportunity Employer
At 118 118 Money we are passionate about equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are committed to being representative of different cultures, background, lifestyles, and groups, where everyone has an equal chance to succeed. It is our policy to treat everyone fairly and to ensure no one is disadvantaged or receives less favourable treatment. We recognise that everyone has different needs and while we can’t accommodate every flexible working request we are more than happy to have a conversation about it.
How we handle your data
118 118 Money requires your personal data to process your application for a position within our Company. If your application is successful through to telephone screening/interview, and you are not selected for a role, we may store your personal data for 12 months to enable our HR team to contact you should future roles be advertised.
Where you apply, but are not selected for telephone screening/interview, we will delete your personal data once the position is filled.
118 118 Money does not use automated decisioning or profiling when selecting candidates.
For your rights under GDPR please see our Privacy Policy.
Please be aware that should we pursue your application, all our Financial Services employees will be expected to complete background checks to assess suitability for employment, these include; a criminal record, identity, sanctions, adverse finance, fraud prevention and reference checks to comply with our regulatory requirements.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location