Marketing Portfolio

Jasmin
Ivanova

Marketing Executive. At Siemens, a 14-month global placement where she diagnosed a failing communications programme, rebuilt it from the audience data up, and grew the newsletter from 1,200 to 8,000+ recipients while contributing to 50+ renewals worldwide. At Wilkie, the first and only marketing hire, where she built the entire function from nothing and generated approximately £135,000 in pipeline value within three months.

£135,000
Pipeline from first campaign
487%
Newsletter audience growth, Siemens
867%
LinkedIn impressions in 30 days
£679,000
Weekly pipeline under CRM
212%
Peak content engagement rate
2.7–6.6%
LinkedIn Ads CTR vs 0.4% avg
8,000+
Newsletter recipients, Siemens
40%
Email open rate
212%
Peak carousel engagement rate
11%
Advocate retention increase, Siemens
£135,000
Pipeline value, first paid campaign
487%
Newsletter audience growth at Siemens
867%
LinkedIn impressions growth in 30 days
£679,000
Weekly pipeline under CRM management
212%
Peak content engagement rate

Experience

Two roles, two completely different environments, the same outcome

Aug 2025 – Present

J&D Wilkie Ltd

UK

Marketing Executive, first and sole hire

J&D Wilkie is a B2B technical textiles manufacturer supplying aerospace, defence, filtration, composites, and industrial sectors globally. No marketing function existed before this role. Strategy, campaigns, brand, content, events, CRM, and reporting were built and owned entirely from scratch over nine months.

Building demand generation from nothing

  • Scoped and managed the company's first multi-channel paid campaign across LinkedIn Ads, email, and SEO, briefing and directing the agency on Google Ads, approving all creative, and overseeing targeting and budget decisions throughout, generating 231 landing page visits, 4 attributed leads, and approximately £135,000 in pipeline value within three months
  • Identified wasted spend in the LinkedIn Ads audience early and restructured targeting toward senior procurement and operations decision-makers; CTRs reached 2.7–6.6% against a platform average of 0.4%
  • Directed a two-send Mailchimp programme producing 26.6% open rate and 5.5% CTR on the testimonial send, both above B2B sector benchmarks

Growing LinkedIn from zero without paid promotion

  • Built Wilkie's LinkedIn content strategy from zero, developing brand voice, editorial logic, and a 14-week calendar, achieving 867% impressions growth in 30 days and up to 212% engagement rate on carousels, without paid promotion or internal amplification
  • Built organic engagement without briefing any internal staff to engage — performance data reflects authentic content quality, not internal amplification
  • Produced 10+ LinkedIn carousels across aerospace, defence, composites, and filtration sectors including the F-15 ejection seat fabric series, peel ply failure story, and PFAS regulatory timeline, all performing significantly above B2B benchmarks

Giving the sales team its first pipeline visibility

  • Designed and built the initial Monday.com CRM structure and trained the sales team on the system, establishing pipeline visibility for the first time; the system has since been developed further by the sales team and now tracks approximately 20 enquiries per week at an average value of £33,949, with a weekly pipeline of £678,977 under active commercial management
  • Built lead source attribution linking marketing to pipeline in GA4 and Monday.com, with revenue-attributed reporting presented to the board monthly

Producing every piece of branded collateral independently

  • Rewrote brand guidelines and produced a 20-slide sales presentation, three product catalogues including the PVC-coated textiles ranges across sports and leisure, defence, and industrial applications, and a full company icon suite, all designed independently in Canva and Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Shot and edited 50+ product and factory photographs, building the company's first original visual asset library for use across digital and print
  • Developed a 9-month SEO roadmap with three long-form articles live, and identified AI visibility as an emerging acquisition gap before most B2B manufacturers had considered it
  • Managed Techtextil Frankfurt (April 2026) end-to-end and is currently planning Filtech Cologne (June–July 2026)
  • Designed a print and digital belting brochure (10 copies printed via the print agency) and a filtration 1-pager for digital/email distribution — every piece designed print-ready as standard
  • Built a customer-facing company presentation deck from scratch in Canva, exported as PowerPoint for Microsoft Teams compatibility — this established the standard company template. Also designed the company letterhead and meeting agenda document.
  • Worked with a specialist print agency on a suite of product catalogues with physical fabric samples inside — designed all layouts in Canva, built product application symbols from scratch using available graphics and custom-built elements, and refined all content through multiple rounds; catalogue production planned for summer/autumn 2026. The same agency also printed 10 copies of the belting brochure.
  • Approved the design of 110 branded Christmas calendars, single-handedly packaged each one with stamps and handwritten notes from the sales team, and posted them all to key customers before the Christmas holidays

International delegation and stakeholder visit management

  • Planned and coordinated a high-priority UK–China international business visit end-to-end, covering itinerary research, venue booking, cross-department scheduling, and day-of coordination under commercially sensitive conditions
  • Designed bespoke Canva postcards featuring Edinburgh Castle as a memento of the visit, laminated each card individually, and prepared six fully assembled gift sets including whisky and glass sets — selecting bags, tissue paper, ribbons, and custom Canva-designed labels printed, laminated, and hand-finished with punched holes and ribbon ties
  • Prepared and refined all presentation decks used during senior leadership meetings, improving formatting, messaging consistency, and visual quality for external stakeholder use
  • Researched and built a full visitor itinerary covering sightseeing, restaurant recommendations, and a whisky tour — presented to the delegation as part of the visitor experience

Jul 2023 – Sep 2024

Siemens Digital Industries Software

London, UK

Sales and Marketing Intern, Global Customer Advocacy

A 14-month placement within the global customer advocacy programme at Siemens' London office, supporting communications, CRM development, and programme growth across international markets.

  • Identified low newsletter engagement as a format and targeting problem rather than a content one; overhauled the communications strategy using Salesforce audience data and Camtasia for visual content, growing the audience from 1,200 to 8,000+ recipients (477–487% growth) and boosting CTR by 50%
  • Presented the advocacy programme vision to global audiences to address declining participation and drove attendance up 200–300% across international markets
  • Built three bespoke Salesforce dashboards for international sales teams to surface customer advocacy data, contributing to an 11% increase in advocate retention and 50+ renewals worldwide
  • Designed and delivered a comprehensive intern onboarding guide and mentored five new team members, reducing ramp-up time within the first month

Selected work

The output, not just the description

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Social media and LinkedIn content

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Pilot Ejection Seat Fabric Carousel

LinkedIn · 24 March 2026 · 80%+ engagement rate

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Composites Carousel

LinkedIn · 31 March 2026

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Carousel — May 2026

LinkedIn · 12 May 2026

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Carousel — 14 April 2026

LinkedIn · v19

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Carousel — 16 April 2026

LinkedIn · v10

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Aerospace Supply Chain Post

LinkedIn text post · 7–10% engagement

Aerospace Post

Print and brand collateral

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PVC Catalogue Design

v5 · May 2026 · Print and digital

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Caflex PVC Catalogue

v3 · Print and digital

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Product Application Symbols

Designed in Canva · Used in product catalogues

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Belting Textiles Brochure

Canva · Print and digital · 10 copies printed

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Filtration 1-Pager

Light version · Canva · Digital and email

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Wilkie Standard Presentation Deck

Canva → PowerPoint · Company standard template

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Email campaigns and digital

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PVC Clearance Email Campaign

Mailchimp · Custom HTML · ~40% open rate · 11%+ CTR

PVC Campaign Email
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PVC Clearance Microsite

Custom HTML · Filterable product page

Product Microsite
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Email Signature Template

UK/EU · Exclaimer · Company-wide rollout

Email Signature
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Wilkie Letterhead Template

Word · Company-wide · Print-ready

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Meeting Agenda Template

Word · Branded · Company-wide

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Events, visits, and stakeholder coordination

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UK–China Delegation Gift Sets

6 hand-assembled gifts · Custom Canva labels · Whisky and glass sets

Delegation Gift Sets
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Edinburgh Castle Memento Postcards

Canva design · Laminated · Hand-finished · Custom printed

Delegation Postcards
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International Visit Coordination

Itinerary · Venue · Decks · Cross-dept scheduling

Visit Coordination
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Christmas Calendar Dispatch

110 calendars · Packaged, stamped, posted · Handwritten notes

Calendar Project

Dashboards, CRM, and reporting

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Monday.com CRM and Marketing Ops

Campaign tracking · Budget boards · Pipeline attribution · £679k/week

Monday.com CRM
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GA4 Analytics Dashboard

Website tracking · Attribution · Monthly reporting

GA4 Dashboard
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Board-Level Reporting Deck

Monthly · SMT and board · KPIs and commercial attribution

Reporting Deck

LinkedIn organic performance, measured unaided

A third of the competitor's followers
and six times their comments

The measurement standard was set deliberately from day one: no internal staff were briefed to engage with posts. Every impression, every reaction, every follow came from content quality alone.

The clearest signal came when a sector-adjacent user tagged four additional people into a thread without any prompt. That kind of organic distribution is not something you can manufacture — it only happens when the content earns it.

Carousels achieved up to 212% engagement rate. Text posts with a genuine tension in the opening line consistently hit 7–10%. The B2B platform benchmark is 2–5%. Every format beat it.

867%
Impressions growth, 30 days
212%
Peak carousel engagement rate
56,190
Total impressions to April 2026
8.15%
Average engagement rate across posts
1,429
Followers by April 2026
93%
Follower growth rate, March 2026

Selected projects

Six projects that show how the thinking translates into results

Each one was scoped, written, built, or managed directly. Click any card to open the work.

01

Demand Generation

The company's first paid campaign, built without a playbook

There was no prior infrastructure, no historical data, and no agency relationship in place. The brief was to scope and run a multi-channel campaign from scratch across LinkedIn Ads, email, and SEO, while briefing and directing the agency across all channels including Google Ads, approving all creative, and overseeing targeting and budget decisions throughout.

  • LinkedIn Ads restructured mid-campaign; CTRs reached 2.7–6.6% against a platform average of 0.4%
  • Two-send email programme with 26.6% open rate and 5.5% CTR on the testimonial send

Result

231 landing page visits, 4 attributed leads, and approximately £135,000 in pipeline value within three months.

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02

CRM and Pipeline

Monday.com CRM built from nothing, now tracking £679k per week

The sales team had no pipeline visibility before this. Monday.com was designed and built from scratch to cover campaign tracking, budget boards, content calendars, lead source attribution, and event management. The sales team was trained on the system and has developed it further since. Lead source reporting connected marketing activity to pipeline for the first time in the company's history.

  • CRM now tracking approximately 20 enquiries per week at an average value of £33,949
  • Weekly pipeline under active commercial management: £678,977
  • GA4 attribution linked to pipeline; marketing-to-revenue reporting presented to the board monthly

Result

First time the business had pipeline visibility by source. System built and handed over to the sales team, who have developed it further.

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03

Email Marketing

A clearance campaign that needed infrastructure before it could send

Mailchimp doesn't support attachments, which made a first-come-first-served stock clearance campaign operationally complicated. A custom filterable product microsite was built alongside the campaign email so customers could browse live stock and enquire directly, without any manual list management on the back end.

  • Custom HTML email coded to brand standards
  • Filterable microsite built from scratch with category, weight, and grade filters
  • Deliverability improvements and audience hygiene applied across the full Mailchimp account

Result

Approximately 40% open rate, 11%+ CTR, and a warm audience primed for future campaign sends.

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04

Siemens, Communications

A newsletter that went from 1,200 to 8,000+ recipients by fixing the actual problem

Low engagement was being treated as a content quality issue. The diagnosis was different: the problem was targeting and format. Salesforce audience data was used to rebuild segmentation from scratch, and Camtasia was brought in for visual content production. The programme's declining participation was addressed directly with a new communications approach presented to global audiences.

  • Newsletter audience grew from 1,200 to 8,000+ recipients, a 477–487% increase
  • CTR increased by 50%
  • Three bespoke Salesforce dashboards built for international sales teams

Result

11% increase in advocate retention and 50+ renewals worldwide attributed to the programme.

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05

Brand and Creative

Every piece of branded collateral the company had ever produced, done in nine months

Brand guidelines were rewritten from scratch. All product collateral, presentation materials, and print assets were produced independently across Canva and Adobe Creative Cloud. The company's first original visual asset library was built from photography shot and edited in-house.

  • PVC-coated textiles catalogues across sports and leisure, defence, and industrial applications in print-ready and digital formats
  • 20-slide customer-facing sales presentation and full company icon suite
  • 50+ product and factory photographs shot and edited in Adobe Lightroom
  • Email signatures for UK/EU market, meeting templates, and company letterhead deployed company-wide

Result

All branded collateral in active sales use. The company's first original visual asset library in place.

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06

Website and SEO

A new website launch and nine months of SEO content that didn't exist before

The new corporate website needed all of its copy written, its UX reviewed, its visual assets prepared, and its agency coordinated before a hard launch in April 2026. After launch, a 9-month editorial roadmap was built to address organic search as an acquisition channel that had never been touched. AI visibility was identified as an emerging gap and built into the roadmap explicitly.

  • All sector copywriting across aerospace, defence, filtration, composites, industrial, and PVC
  • SEO editorial roadmap in place; article production beginning July 2026
  • 9-month editorial calendar planned and ready; production starting July 2026
  • AI visibility gap identified and addressed in the roadmap

Result

Live at onewilkie.com since April 2026, with SEO content in ongoing production.

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07

Events and Stakeholder Management

A UK–China international delegation, coordinated end-to-end from gifts to itinerary

A high-priority international business visit connecting Wilkie's UK and China operations. The role sat across marketing, operations, and executive support — managing every detail from venue booking and cross-department scheduling to physically assembling six bespoke gift sets and designing keepsake postcards by hand.

  • Designed Edinburgh Castle memento postcards in Canva, printed on card stock, individually laminated, and finished with a personalised message, date, and hand-cut ribbon attachment
  • Assembled six gift sets end-to-end: sourced whisky and glass sets, selected bags, added decorative tissue paper, designed and printed custom Wilkie-branded labels in Canva, laminated each label, punched holes, and tied with ribbon purchased specifically for the visit
  • Booked and arranged the meeting room venue; researched and prepared a full visitor itinerary including sightseeing, restaurant recommendations, and a whisky tour
  • Prepared and refined all presentation decks used in senior leadership meetings, improving formatting, messaging consistency, and visual quality for international stakeholder use

Result

A commercially significant international visit delivered with no detail missed — every touchpoint from the meeting room to the parting gift designed, sourced, and finished in-house.

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Education

A degree completed alongside a 14-month global placement at Siemens

University of Stirling, BA Marketing. Graduated June 2025. The Siemens placement ran through year three, which means commercial outcomes were already on the CV before the degree was finished.

Graduated June 2025

University of Stirling

Bachelor of Arts, Marketing

  • Dissertation: qualitative primary research on sales and marketing alignment in B2B technology companies, with data-supported recommendations on customer retention and revenue performance across the B2B customer journey
  • Consultancy project scored 75%, ranked among the highest-performing teams; led a team of four, conducted five stakeholder interviews, analysed 60+ pages of transcripts, and delivered a 30-slide live presentation accompanied by a 17-post brand kit
  • Year three ran concurrently with the Siemens placement, completing both at the same time

How the timeline actually ran

Siemens before graduation. Wilkie immediately after.

No gap, no junior stepping stone

  • The Siemens placement produced real commercial results, including 8,000+ newsletter recipients and 50+ renewals worldwide, before the degree was finished
  • Moved directly from graduation into a sole marketing hire role at Wilkie, with no intermediate junior position between a placement and full ownership
  • Bulgarian native, English C2, German conversational

Capability

Two roles at opposite ends of the market, and the range that comes with that

At Siemens: Salesforce, international stakeholders, and a global programme with thousands of subscribers. At Wilkie: no existing infrastructure, no prior marketing hire, full commercial accountability from day one. The capability that comes from operating across both ends of that spectrum is difficult to replicate in a single-environment career.

Demand Generation

  • LinkedIn Campaign Manager
  • Agency briefing and oversight
  • Google Ads oversight (agency-led)
  • Budget management
  • Mid-flight optimisation
  • Lead attribution
  • Performance reporting

CRM and Revenue

  • Monday.com CRM build
  • Salesforce
  • HubSpot
  • Pipeline tracking and reporting
  • Lead source attribution
  • Revenue attribution
  • Board-level stakeholder reporting

Content and SEO

  • B2B technical copywriting
  • LinkedIn strategy and management
  • Email marketing and deliverability
  • SEO editorial production
  • Keyword research and on-page
  • GA4 analytics
  • Editorial planning and calendars

Brand and Creative

  • Brand strategy and guidelines
  • Canva and Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Adobe Lightroom photography
  • Print catalogue production
  • HTML email coding
  • Presentation design
  • Asset production end-to-end
Languages Bulgarian Native English C2 German Conversational
Tools Google AdsLinkedIn Campaign ManagerSalesforce HubSpotMonday.comMailchimp GA4CanvaAdobe Illustrator Adobe LightroomAdobe AcrobatNotion TrelloExclaimerHTML / CSS