Marketing Executive

Jasmin Ivanova

Before Wilkie, a 14-month placement at Siemens Digital Industries Software where I rebuilt a struggling global advocacy programme and grew its newsletter from 1,200 to 8,000+ subscribers. At Wilkie, I was the first marketing hire. The function didn't exist. Within three months the first paid campaign had generated £135,000 in pipeline. Everything else you see here was built in the time since.

£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

A placement at one of the world's largest software companies, then sole ownership of a marketing function from day one

Aug 2025 – Present

J&D Wilkie Ltd

UK

Wilkie factory

Aug 2025 – Present · UK

Marketing Executive, first and sole hire

J&D Wilkie Ltd · Technical textiles · Aerospace, defence, filtration, energy, and industrial

B2B technical textiles manufacturer serving aerospace, defence, filtration, energy, and industrial sectors. No marketing function existed before I joined.

Demand generation

  • The company had never run a paid campaign. I scoped the first one — briefing the agency, approving all creative, and owning every targeting and budget decision across LinkedIn Ads, email, and SEO. 231 landing page visits, 4 attributed leads, £135,000 in pipeline within three months.
  • Identified wasted spend in the LinkedIn Ads audience early in the campaign and restructured targeting toward senior procurement and operations decision-makers, trading impression volume for lead quality. CTRs reached 2.7–6.6% against a platform average of 0.4%.
  • Directed a two-send Mailchimp programme alongside the campaign, writing both emails and managing deliverability. The testimonial send achieved a 26.6% open rate and 5.5% CTR — both above B2B sector benchmarks.

Organic LinkedIn strategy

  • I built Wilkie's LinkedIn strategy from scratch — brand voice, editorial guidelines, and a 14-week content calendar, all produced independently. No internal staff were briefed to engage, so every number reflects genuine external interest. 867% growth in impressions within 30 days. Carousels reached 212% engagement rate against a 2–5% B2B benchmark.
  • Produced 10+ technical storytelling carousels across aerospace, defence, filtration, energy, and industrial sectors to build credibility with engineering and procurement audiences. The strongest engagement signal came when a sector-adjacent user tagged four additional industry contacts into a thread without any prompt — organic distribution that paid reach cannot replicate.

CRM and pipeline attribution

  • The sales team had no pipeline visibility. I designed and implemented Monday.com from scratch, trained the team, and handed it over. The system now tracks approximately 20 enquiries per week at an average order value of £33,949 — £678,977 in weekly pipeline under active commercial management.
  • I built lead source attribution across GA4 and Monday.com, connecting campaign spend to pipeline for the first time. Marketing performance has been reported to the board monthly with full commercial context ever since.

Brand, content, and collateral

  • There was no brand collateral when I joined. I rewrote the brand guidelines and produced the full suite independently in Canva and Adobe Creative Cloud — standard presentation deck (Canva to PowerPoint, now the company template), sector brochures, PVC-coated textiles catalogues across defence, sports and leisure, and industrial, filtration 1-pager, product symbol suite, email signatures, letterhead, and meeting templates. Every piece is in active sales use. Also personally oversaw and fulfilled a 110-unit branded Christmas calendar send to key customers.
  • I shot and edited 50+ product and factory photographs in Adobe Lightroom — the company's first original visual library. Used across the website, LinkedIn, and all print collateral.
  • Working with an external design agency on a suite of physical product catalogues with fabric samples — refining their layouts, supplying product symbols, and cleaning the catalogue data. Production Q3 2026.

International stakeholder visit

  • I coordinated a high-priority UK–China international visit end-to-end — venue, scheduling, presentation preparation, and day-of logistics across marketing, operations, and senior leadership. No external coordinator involved.
  • I designed and hand-finished Edinburgh Castle memento postcards in Canva — printed, laminated, and ribbon-finished individually. Assembled six branded gift sets including custom-labelled whisky sets, and built a full visitor itinerary. Every element designed, sourced, and finished personally.

Jul 2023 – Sep 2024

Siemens Digital Industries Software

London, UK

Siemens London

Jul 2023 – Sep 2024 · London, UK

Sales and Marketing Intern, Global Customer Advocacy

Siemens Digital Industries Software · 14-month placement · International markets

14-month placement. Global customer advocacy programme. Siemens London office. International markets.

  • The global advocacy newsletter had low engagement and the root cause had been misdiagnosed as a content quality problem. I identified it as an audience targeting and format issue, rebuilt segmentation using Salesforce data, and introduced Camtasia visual content. Result: audience grew from 1,200 to 8,000+ subscribers — 487% growth — and CTR increased by 50%.
  • I developed and presented a revised advocacy vision to reverse declining participation. Event attendance increased 200–300% across international markets.
  • International sales teams lacked visibility of customer advocacy data, limiting their ability to retain and renew accounts. I built three custom Salesforce dashboards to surface this information in their day-to-day workflow. Advocate retention improved by 11%, contributing to 50+ contract renewals worldwide.

Selected work

The work

Click any piece to open it in full.

LinkedIn — selected posts

Firefighter suit carousel
Firefighter suit · 212% engagement rate
Fabric gets blamed
The fabric gets blamed · 3,731 impressions
We say textiles
We say textiles · 7 comments, external tagging
Pipe lining carousel
Pipe lining carousel · 162% engagement rate
Sales team parachutes
Sales team question · 975 impressions

Print and brand collateral

📊

Wilkie Standard Presentation Deck

Canva → PowerPoint · Established the company template

Open PDF ↗
📄

PVC-coated Textiles Catalogue

Defence, sports and leisure, industrial · Canva · Print and digital

Open PDF ↗
🎨

Product Application Symbols

Custom icon suite · Built from scratch in Canva

Open PDF ↗

Email campaigns and digital

✉️

PVC Clearance Email Campaign

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

PVC Campaign Email
🌐

PVC Clearance Microsite

Custom HTML · Filterable product page

Product Microsite
✍️

Email Signature Template

UK/EU · Exclaimer · Company-wide rollout

Email Signature
📝

Wilkie Letterhead Template

Word · Company-wide · Print-ready

Open file ↗
📝

Meeting Agenda Template

Word · Branded · Company-wide

Open file ↗

Events, visits, and stakeholder coordination

🎁

UK–China Delegation Gift Sets

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

Delegation Gift Sets
🏰

Edinburgh Castle Memento Postcards

Canva design · Laminated · Hand-finished · Custom printed

Delegation Postcards
🤝

International Visit Coordination

Itinerary · Venue · Decks · Cross-dept scheduling

Visit Coordination
📅

Christmas Calendar Dispatch

110 calendars · Packaged, stamped, posted · Handwritten notes

Calendar Project

Dashboards, CRM, and reporting

📊

Monday.com CRM and Marketing Ops

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

Monday.com CRM
📈

GA4 Analytics Dashboard

Website tracking · Attribution · Monthly reporting

GA4 Dashboard
📋

Board-Level Reporting Deck

Monthly · SMT and board · KPIs and commercial attribution

Reporting Deck

LinkedIn organic performance, measured unaided

Organic LinkedIn growth

No internal staff were briefed to engage with any post. Every number reflects genuine external interest.

The strongest signal was when an external user tagged four additional industry contacts into a thread without any prompt. That level of organic distribution only happens when the content is worth sharing.

Carousels hit up to 212% engagement rate. Text posts consistently reached 7–10%. The B2B benchmark for both is 2–5%.

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

Selected projects

Each one scoped, written, built, or managed directly — no agency for most of it.

01

Demand Generation

First demand generation campaign: £135,000 in pipeline within three months

The company had never run a paid campaign. I scoped the strategy, selected the agency, briefed all creative, and owned every targeting and budget decision across LinkedIn Ads, email, and SEO.

  • 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

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

View campaign assets

02

CRM and Pipeline

CRM implementation and pipeline attribution: £679,000 tracked weekly

The sales team had no structured pipeline visibility. I designed and implemented Monday.com CRM from scratch, built lead source attribution across GA4 and Monday.com, trained the team, and handed it over — the first time the business could connect marketing activity to commercial outcomes.

  • £678,977 in weekly pipeline now tracked — approximately 20 enquiries per week at an average value of £33,949
  • Lead source attribution built in GA4 and Monday.com — marketing's contribution to pipeline visible to the board monthly

Result

The business had never had this visibility. Built from scratch, trained, and handed over.

View dashboard

03

Email Marketing

Email campaign with a custom-built microsite: 40% open rate, 11%+ CTR

Mailchimp can't host a stock list. Rather than work around it manually, I built a custom filterable product microsite alongside the campaign email — customers browsed live stock and enquired by reference number with no manual list management required.

  • Custom HTML email and filterable product microsite built and deployed
  • Deliverability improvements and list hygiene applied across the full account

Result

~40% open rate. 11%+ CTR. Warm audience built for future sends.

View email and microsite

04

Siemens, Communications

Global advocacy newsletter rebuilt: 1,200 to 8,000+ subscribers at Siemens

Low engagement was being treated as a content quality issue. The actual problem was audience targeting and format. I rebuilt segmentation using Salesforce data, added Camtasia visual content, and presented a new programme vision to reverse declining participation across international markets.

  • 1,200 to 8,000+ newsletter recipients — 487% growth. CTR up 50%.
  • Three Salesforce dashboards built for international sales teams

Result

11% increase in advocate retention. 50+ renewals worldwide.

View project

05

Brand and Creative

Brand strategy and full collateral suite built from scratch in nine months

There was no brand infrastructure when I joined. I rewrote the guidelines and produced the full suite independently — deck, brochures, catalogues, 1-pagers, product symbols, and all branded templates. Shot and edited 50+ photographs to give the business its first original visual library.

  • PVC-coated textiles catalogues across defence, sports and leisure, 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

Every piece built from nothing. Every piece in active sales use.

View catalogues

06

Website and SEO

Website launch and 9-month SEO strategy: copywriting, UX, and content roadmap

I wrote all copy for a new £20,000+ corporate website across six industrial sectors, managed UX review and agency coordination, and delivered the hard launch in April 2026. I built a 9-month SEO editorial roadmap after launch and identified AI search visibility as an emerging acquisition channel before most manufacturers in the sector had considered it.

  • Full copy written across six industrial sectors for a £20,000+ website project

Result

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

View website work

07

Events and Stakeholder Management

International stakeholder visit: end-to-end coordination for a UK–China delegation

A commercially significant UK–China visit coordinated entirely in-house. I managed everything across marketing, operations, and senior leadership — logistics, scheduling, presentations, and every physical detail.

  • I designed and hand-finished bespoke Edinburgh Castle memento postcards in Canva — printed, individually laminated, and finished with personalised messaging and ribbon.
  • I assembled six branded gift sets end-to-end — sourcing whisky and glass sets, designing and printing custom Wilkie labels in Canva, laminating each label, and hand-finishing with ribbon.
  • I booked the venue, managed cross-department scheduling, and built a full visitor itinerary covering sightseeing, dining, and a whisky tour.
  • I prepared and refined all presentation decks for senior leadership meetings with the delegation.

Result

Delivered without an external coordinator. Every detail owned in-house.

View delegation work

Education

Education

BA Marketing, University of Stirling, June 2025. The Siemens placement ran through year three — commercial results on the CV before the degree finished.

Graduated June 2025

University of Stirling

BA Marketing

  • Dissertation: primary qualitative research on sales and marketing alignment in B2B technology companies, with data-supported recommendations on customer retention and revenue growth
  • Consultancy project: 75%, ranked among the top-performing teams. Led a team of four, conducted five stakeholder interviews, and delivered a 30-slide live presentation with a 17-post brand kit

Career trajectory

Placement, then degree, then sole hire

No gap between any of them

  • My Siemens placement produced 8,000+ subscribers and contributed to 50+ renewals worldwide — all before the degree finished.
  • I moved directly into a sole marketing hire role at Wilkie with no intermediate junior position.
  • Bulgarian (native) · English (C2) · German (conversational)

Capability

Capability

Demand generation, CRM, brand strategy, content marketing, SEO, email marketing, analytics, and stakeholder management — across enterprise-scale operations at Siemens and a zero-infrastructure build at Wilkie.

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