affiliate and partnership Growth consultancy

Turn partnerships into a measurable growth engine

I help brands and Agencies build partner-led growth through strategic partnerships, Affiliate Marketing and performance Demand Generation.

Partnerhance is a strategic consultancy helping brands, agencies and technology businesses build, improve and scale affiliate, partnership and demand generation programmes.

I support B2C teams with affiliate strategy, partner growth and performance-led customer acquisition and B2B teams with partner-led demand generation, lead quality and pipeline growth.

I also work with agencies that need senior specialist support across affiliate propositions, pitches and client delivery. Engagements are focused, commercially driven and designed around a clear business problem, measurable outcome and practical next step.

Recognise the situation

Does any of this sound familiar?

You don’t need to diagnose the programme before you get in touch. Start with the problem you’re seeing and the decision it’s making harder.

The numbers are being challenged

You’re reporting revenue, leads or activity, but Finance or leadership still can’t see the genuine contribution, customer quality, total cost or risk.

Why it matters: More budget could be going into activity that isn’t creating the value everyone thinks it is.

The decision: What should you fund, fix, challenge or stop?

Everyone is busy, but the direction isn’t clear

Your team and suppliers are active, but there isn’t a shared view of the programme’s role, partner strategy, commercial model or measures of success.

Why it matters: Time and budget get spread across activity that leadership hasn’t chosen as a coherent growth plan.

The decision: What should the programme become, and how should it work?

Partner growth has stalled

You’re relying on the same partner base while recruitment creates long lists, generic outreach and too few opportunities that actually activate.

Why it matters: Your team spends time chasing names instead of building a better-fit pipeline.

The decision: Which partners are worth pursuing, and what will make them engage?

The programme needs senior ownership

Important choices keep being delayed or passed between internal teams and suppliers. Either your programme owner needs senior backup or the programme needs someone to lead it.

Why it matters: Suppliers drift, risks stay unresolved and executives spend time filling the ownership gap.

The decision: Do you need senior advice or accountable fractional leadership?

Find the right starting point

Tell me what you’re dealing with

Choose the closest match. You can open the engagement below, see the starting price and decide whether it feels relevant.

Best place to start when the cause isn’t clear

You don’t trust the performance story

Open the Partner-Led Growth Diagnostic

You know the issue, but need a plan

Open Partnerships & Growth Strategy

You need a better-fit partner pipeline

Open the Partner Growth & Recruitment Sprint

Your programme owner needs senior backup

Open Senior Affiliate Advisory

No one senior owns the programme

Open Fractional Partnerships & Growth Leadership

Defined engagements

Start with the outcome you need

You won’t be buying open-ended consulting time. Every engagement has a clear purpose, starting price and finished output. Open the one that matches your situation when you want the detail.

Product 01

Programme Audit & Diagnostic

Find out what’s really driving performance before you spend more or change direction.

See what the Diagnostic includes

This is for you if

Your reports show revenue, leads or activity, but you can’t confidently explain the real contribution, cost, customer quality or risk.

What I’ll do

I’ll review the agreed evidence across strategy, partner contribution, commercial efficiency, measurement, operations and governance. You’ll see what is fact, what is inference and where the evidence has limits.

What changesYou’ll know what is creating value, what is getting in the way and what to fund, fix, challenge or stop during the next 90 days.

What you receive

  • Executive findings.
  • A six-dimension diagnostic scorecard with evidence and confidence ratings.
  • Performance and partner opportunity analysis.
  • A risk and opportunity register.
  • A prioritised 90-day decision and action plan with owners and dependencies.

Works best when
Your programme has been live for at least six months and you can provide partner-level performance and cost data.

Product 02

Partnership Growth Strategy

Turn a known programme problem into a strategy leadership can fund and your team can run.

See what the Strategy engagement includes

This is for you if

You understand the broad weakness or opportunity, but leaders haven’t agreed the programme’s role, partner priorities, economics, measures or operating model.

What I’ll do

I’ll combine current evidence, stakeholder input and structured choices to design the future commercial and operating model.

What changesYou’ll have a fundable direction, clear trade-offs and an operating plan your internal team and suppliers can mobilise.

What you receive

  • An executive-ready programme strategy.
  • Audience and partner priorities.
  • Partner segmentation and value proposition.
  • Commercial architecture and investment assumptions.
  • KPI, measurement and governance frameworks.
  • A RACI and capability view.
  • Prioritised 90-day and 12-month roadmaps.

Works best when
You have a live programme, usable performance history and leadership ready to make clear choices.

Product 03

Partner Growth & Recruitment Sprint

Build a better-fit partner pipeline, not another list of names that goes nowhere.

See what the Recruitment Sprint includes

This is for you if

Your programme relies on a narrow partner base and recruitment is producing generic outreach, weak activation or too few credible opportunities.

What I’ll do

I’ll define fit and value criteria, assess the current portfolio, research and score opportunities, sharpen the proposition and build a controlled recruitment and activation system.

What changesYou’ll have a more selective pipeline, less wasted outreach and a repeatable route towards diversification.

What you receive

  • A current portfolio and concentration view.
  • Partner opportunity segmentation.
  • An evidence-scored prospect database with rationale and next actions.
  • Partner proposition and commercial guidance.
  • An outreach framework and briefing assets.
  • Pipeline stages, onboarding requirements and a 90-day activation plan.

Works best when
Your programme has viable economics, working tracking, a credible proposition and owners ready to onboard and activate partners.

Product 04

B2B Brand-to-Demand Generation

Build demand with the right accounts before asking them to become a lead.

See what B2B Brand-to-Demand Generation includes

This is for you if

Your B2B acquisition is too dependent on paid media, bought leads or cold outbound and your campaigns are generating activity without enough qualified commercial conversations.

What I’ll do

I’ll define the audience, buying problem and campaign journey, then build a partner-led demand programme that creates awareness, engagement and intent before moving the strongest accounts towards qualification.

Depending on the objective, this can combine B2B publishers, content syndication, email, webinars, account-based audiences, lead-generation partners and first-party data activation.

What changesYou move from buying isolated leads towards a more connected demand programme that reaches the right companies earlier, builds familiarity and intent, and gives Sales a clearer route to qualified opportunities.

What you receive

  • ICP and audience definition
  • Buyer-journey and demand map
  • Partner and channel recommendation
  • Campaign and content architecture
  • Lead qualification framework
  • Measurement and reporting framework
  • Partner/vendor activation plan
  • Campaign roadmap and next-step recommendations

Works best when
You have a defined ICP, functioning CRM or sales process, a measurable conversion event beyond a raw form submission, credible sales follow-up and viable CPL, CPA or revenue economics.

Product 05

Fractional Leadership

Put accountable senior ownership around a programme that already has people who can execute.

See what Fractional Leadership includes

This is for you if

A vacancy, launch, migration, agency transition or period of underperformance has left decisions and supplier direction without a credible senior owner.

What I’ll do

I’ll lead through a defined mandate, rolling outcome plan and reserved monthly capacity, keeping executives, internal teams and suppliers aligned around the work that matters.

What changesAccountability is restored, change is controlled and the programme has a stronger operating system for an internal or permanent owner to inherit.

What you receive

  • A mandate charter and authority matrix.
  • A first-30-day assessment.
  • A rolling 90-day outcome plan.
  • Executive performance and risk reporting.
  • A decision log and governance cadence.
  • Supplier and stakeholder action tracking.
  • A documented handover system.

Works best when
You have an executive sponsor, delegated authority and internal or agency resources ready to execute.

Quoted-to-scope decisions

Make the expensive decision once, and make it well

Some decisions carry too much commercial and operational risk for a standard engagement. I scope these around the choice you need to make, the evidence required and the product your team needs at the end.

Platform Selection, RFP & Migration Advisory

You’re choosing whether to retain, replace or migrate a network or platform, but the real requirements, costs and dependencies aren’t yet clear.

The decision

Retain, select, defer or migrate, using agreed requirements and a transparent evidence trail.

What I’ll do

I’ll turn business needs into evaluation criteria, run a controlled comparison and expose the commercial and migration risks before you commit.

What you receive

  • Requirements and disqualifiers.
  • A weighted supplier and commercial comparison.
  • A recommendation paper and migration controls where included.

What changesYou can make a defensible supplier decision with a clearer view of cost, dependencies and avoidable risk.

New Programme Launch & Market Expansion

You’re preparing to launch a new programme, product or market, but the commercial model, tracking, partner proposition or operating ownership isn’t yet proven.

The decision

Go, conditional-go, delay or no-go, with clear conditions and owners.

What I’ll do

I’ll test the business case and readiness, then define what must be true before people, technology and partner investment are committed.

What you receive

  • A readiness assessment and commercial blueprint.
  • Platform, tracking, partner and governance requirements.
  • A mobilisation plan and first-90-day roadmap.

What changesYou can commit to a viable launch with greater confidence, or stop avoidable spend before it starts.

From challenge to delivery

A clear route from a messy programme problem to a finished product

You work directly with me throughout. We make sense of what’s happening, choose the right route and turn it into something your team can use.

01

Bring me the challenge

We start with what has happened, what it’s costing or putting at risk, and the decision you need to make.

02

Make sense of the evidence

I review the agreed data, documents and stakeholder perspectives to separate facts from assumptions.

03

Choose the way forward

We turn the evidence into clear choices, priorities and an agreed route forward.

04

Deliver the final product

You receive the strategy, diagnostic, roadmap, decision framework or leadership system you’ve paid for, presented clearly and ready to put into action. Your team knows what to do next, who owns it and where to start.

Experience you can put to work

You work directly with someone who’s led complex partnership programmes

I’m Jamil Ali. I bring more than 13 years of commercial leadership experience across partnerships, affiliate commerce, customer acquisition and performance-led growth.

Former Head of Affiliates & Partner Commerce for Kinesso (Omnicom), I’ve worked across agency, network, Publisher and enterprise client environments, leading teams and bringing brands, partners, platforms, agencies and internal stakeholders around the same commercial problem.

That means you get senior expertise applied directly to your programme, with fewer layers, faster decisions and clear accountability.

13+ years

Career experience across partnerships, affiliate commerce and performance-led growth.

£60m

International portfolio responsibility during prior leadership roles across EMEA, the US and South Africa.

66% growth & 26% lower CPA

An acquisition programme result delivered during a prior leadership role.

Former Head of Affiliates Kinesso (Omnicom)

Cross-functional teams coordinated across partnerships, sales, data, SEO, CRO, content and demand generation.

Insights

Latest thinking on affiliate and partnerships

Why Partnerhance

Bring me the programme problem you can’t afford to keep circling

Senior independent intervention for organisations that already have delivery capability but need a difficult affiliate, partnership or commercial decision solved properly.

See what’s really happening

I’ll challenge the assumptions, follow the evidence and show you what is actually helping or holding the programme back.

Make a decision you can defend

You’ll see the evidence, trade-offs and commercial logic behind the recommendation, so leadership can move forward with confidence.

Leave with something your team can use

The work ends with a finished product, clear priorities, named owners and next steps, not another deck that leaves the real decision unresolved.

You work directly with me from the first conversation to the final product. There isn’t a junior hand-off or another layer between the advice and the person accountable for it.

Start with the situation

Book a short conversation and I’ll help you identify the right starting point.

You don’t need to choose a service before you contact me.

Tell me what’s happening, what it’s costing, delaying or putting at risk and the decision you need to make. I’ll review the enquiry personally and tell you whether there’s a clear Partnerhance engagement that fits.

Discuss your challenge

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The first useful outcome is a clearer decision

If the programme matters but the next move can’t yet be defended, start with the situation leadership needs to resolve.