Affiliate Partnerships Manager – Sales Closer

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💰 Account Manager

👻 Ghost score 17%

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Scale Virtually VA

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

👥 HR Tech

Consulting • Marketing • HR Tech

Scale Virtually VA is a world-class staffing agency that specializes in providing skilled virtual assistants to help businesses streamline operations and enhance productivity. They offer customized solutions for administrative tasks, marketing, sales, and real estate services, allowing companies to focus on core revenue-generating activities. Through a comprehensive recruitment process, Scale Virtually ensures that the right talent is placed in the right roles, facilitating rapid business growth and operational efficiency.

📋 Description

• Manage and strengthen existing affiliate relationships • Recruit and onboard new referral partners • Build partner plans and explain services and referral processes • Track partner activity, qualified referrals, pipeline, and resulting sales in the CRM • Participate in partner meetings, presentations, webinars, conferences, and other in-person events • Manage qualified opportunities from discovery and qualification through proposal, follow-up, and closing • Explain the value of VA staffing and approved AI services and involve technical or delivery specialists when needed • Maintain current CRM opportunities, communicate realistic forecasts, and hand closed clients to delivery teams • Directly manage assigned closers and incoming affiliate support staff • Set expectations, coach calls and follow-up, review pipeline, and address performance gaps • Help recruit, assess, and onboard team members • Coordinate with appointment setters on qualification, appointment quality, follow-up, and handoffs • Improve team sales processes and reporting • Provide limited occasional support for approved client sales coaching engagements • Report affiliate opportunities, qualified pipeline, and sales results

🎯 Requirements

• Candidates must be based in the United States • Full-time availability during US Central-aligned business hours • Travel to approved conferences and other in-person business events is required • Demonstrated experience developing business referral, affiliate, channel, or similar partner relationships and turning them into qualified opportunities • Proven ability to personally close consultative business sales, handle objections, and manage follow-up through the full sales cycle • Practical experience coaching or managing salespeople and holding a small or developing team accountable • Strong relationship management and clear written and verbal communication • Confidence leading video calls and presentations • Good CRM habits and comfort tracking partner activity, pipeline, sales results, and next steps • Sound judgment, reliable follow-through, and ability to work independently while respecting budgets, delivery limits, and other teams’ responsibilities • Confidence building relationships in person and willingness to travel for approved conferences and other business events • Experience in staffing, virtual assistant services, AI services, or another consultative business service is helpful • HubSpot experience is helpful • External client coaching experience is helpful, not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance incentives for affiliate channel results, including qualifying business from managed partners when another closer handles the sale • Performance incentives for personal closing of qualified opportunities from affiliates and other approved company channels • Performance incentives based on the performance of assigned closers and affiliate support team • Complete written incentive structure, including rates, targets, sales credit rules, and payment timing, provided before offer acceptance • Travel arrangements and expense coverage to be discussed during hiring and confirmed before offer acceptance