Market research - affiliate manager

We need an affiliate manager, the work is mainly focused on getting contacts and business relations with similar industry sites, sites with a lot of traffic and that rank well for search terms that are close to our product theme. This is a market research project, you will need to research the net for similar sites that rank well in the major search engines and find contacts to work with us on promoting our product and selling it. You will need to report on email and on excel sheets, find contacts, sites, newsletters and other Internet features that will help us promote and sell our product.