Marketing Executive

Jasmin Ivanova

I'm a marketing executive specialising in B2B demand generation, content marketing, and pipeline attribution. Before Wilkie, I spent 14 months at Siemens Digital Industries Software in London, an internship I sought out independently and relocated for, where I supported the growth of the global customer advocacy programme and grew its newsletter from 1,200 to 8,000+ subscribers. At Wilkie, I joined as the first and only marketing hire, the function didn't exist, and the first paid campaign generated £135,000 in pipeline within three months. 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
50+
Contract renewals contributed to, Siemens
212%
Peak content engagement rate

Experience

The journey so far

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. I was the first marketing hire and built the entire function from scratch: strategy, demand generation, content, attribution, and reporting.

Demand generation and campaign strategy

  • The company had never run a paid campaign. I designed the demand generation strategy (channel mix, audience parameters, and brief) and directed the agency through execution. £135,000 in attributed pipeline within three months, with multiple qualified leads generated.
  • Identified wasted spend early and directed the agency to restructure LinkedIn Ads 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.

Content marketing and organic LinkedIn

  • I built the LinkedIn content strategy from scratch, with no existing channel presence: brand voice, editorial guidelines, sector-specific messaging, and a 14-week calendar, all written independently. No internal staff were briefed to engage, so every number reflects genuine external reach. 867% growth in impressions within 30 days. Carousels reached 212% engagement rate against a 2–5% B2B benchmark.
  • Produced 10+ technical content pieces across five industrial sectors to build credibility with engineering and procurement decision-makers. An external user tagged four additional industry contacts into a thread without any prompt, which is the kind of organic reach that only happens when the content is genuinely useful to the audience.

Pipeline attribution and revenue reporting

  • The business had no way to connect marketing activity to revenue. I designed and built Monday.com CRM from scratch, covering campaign tracking, lead attribution, and commercial reporting, and trained the sales team. The system now gives the business real-time pipeline visibility, with marketing activity attributed to revenue for the first time.
  • I built full lead source attribution across GA4 and Monday.com, tracking every marketing channel to pipeline and revenue. Marketing's commercial contribution has been reported to the board monthly with full attribution data.

Brand strategy and content production

  • 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 the design and fulfilment of a branded Christmas calendar send to key customers.
  • I shot and edited 50+ product and factory photographs in Adobe Lightroom, giving the company its first original visual library. Now used across the website, LinkedIn, and all print collateral.
  • Leading the content and design direction for a suite of physical product catalogues with fabric samples, in partnership with an external design agency: refining layouts, supplying a custom product symbol suite, and structuring all catalogue data. Production Q3 2026.

International stakeholder visit

  • I coordinated a high-priority international delegation visit end-to-end, covering venue, scheduling, presentation preparation, and day-of logistics across marketing, operations, and senior leadership. No external coordinator involved.
  • I designed and produced all physical materials in-house: Edinburgh Castle memento postcards (designed in Canva, printed, laminated, and hand-finished), six branded whisky gift sets with custom-printed labels, and a full visitor itinerary covering Edinburgh. Every element sourced and finished personally, with no outsourcing.

Jul 2023 – Sep 2024

Siemens Digital Industries Software

London, UK

Siemens London

Jul 2023 – Sep 2024 · London, UK

Marketing Intern, Global Customer Advocacy

Siemens Digital Industries Software · Self-sought internship · London · International markets

A 14-month self-sought internship in London. I owned the global customer advocacy programme across international markets, covering audience growth, content strategy, event communications, and CRM reporting.

  • The global advocacy newsletter had low engagement. I identified an audience segmentation and format opportunity, rebuilt the targeting using Salesforce data, and restructured the content approach. Audience grew from 1,200 to 8,000+ subscribers (487% growth) and CTR increased by 50%.
  • I developed and presented a programme vision to global markets to drive event participation. Attendance increased 200–300% across international markets.
  • Sales teams needed better visibility of advocacy data at the account level to support retention. I built three Salesforce dashboards to surface this directly in their workflow, connecting advocacy activity to renewal pipeline. Advocate retention improved by 11%, contributing to 50+ contract renewals worldwide.

Portfolio

Work samples

A mix of formats across campaigns, content, brand, analytics, and events.

LinkedIn: selected posts

Firefighter suit carousel
Firefighter suit carousel212% engagement rate · PDF
Fabric gets blamed
The fabric gets blamed3,731 impressions
We say textiles
We say textiles7 comments · external tagging
Pipe lining carousel
Pipe lining carousel162% engagement rate · PDF
Sales team parachutes
Sales team question975 impressions

Print and brand collateral

PDF
Filtration sector 1-pager Canva · Digital and print
PDF
PVC-coated textiles catalogue Defence · Sports and leisure · Industrial
PDF
Product application symbols Custom icon suite · Built in Canva

Email and digital

PVC clearance campaign
PVC clearance campaignEmail + custom microsite · approximately 40% open rate · 11%+ CTR

Analytics and reporting

Marketing analytics dashboard
Marketing analytics dashboardCustom-coded · LinkedIn · Mailchimp · GA4 · Live data

Events and stakeholder management

international delegation visit, Radisson Blu Edinburgh
International delegation visitVenue · Gift sets · Postcards · End-to-end coordination

LinkedIn organic performance, measured unaided

Organic LinkedIn growth

No paid amplification. No internal staff were briefed to engage with any post. The strategy was built to reach B2B engineering and procurement audiences with technically credible content, and the numbers reflect that.

The strongest signal: an external user tagged four additional industry contacts into a thread unprompted. That kind of organic reach only happens when the content earns it.

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

Key projects

Selected projects

Each one scoped, written, built, or managed directly.

01

Demand Generation · Wilkie

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

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

  • LinkedIn Ads audience restructured mid-campaign toward senior procurement decision-makers; CTRs reached 2.7–6.6% against a 0.4% platform average
  • Two-send email programme: 26.6% open rate and 5.5% CTR on the testimonial send, both above B2B benchmarks

Result

£135,000 in attributed pipeline, with qualified leads generated, within three months of going live.

02

Email Marketing · Wilkie

PVC clearance email campaign: approximately 40% open rate, 11%+ CTR

Mailchimp couldn't host a live stock list, so I built a custom filterable product microsite alongside the campaign email; customers browsed live stock by category, weight, and grade, and enquired directly by reference number.

  • Custom HTML email coded to brand standards and deployed via Mailchimp
  • Filterable microsite built from scratch, no third-party tools, no manual list management

Result

Approximately 40% open rate and 11%+ CTR. Warm audience built for future campaign sends.

03

Content Strategy · Siemens

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

The newsletter had room to grow. I identified audience segmentation and format as the key opportunity and rebuilt the targeting using Salesforce data, and restructured the content approach entirely.

  • Audience segmentation rebuilt using Salesforce, targeting by role, market, and advocacy stage
  • Introduced Camtasia visual content format to replace text-heavy updates
  • Presented revised programme vision to international markets to grow participation

Result

Audience grew from 1,200 to 8,000+ subscribers (487% growth). CTR up 50%. Event attendance increased 200–300% internationally.

04

Brand Strategy · Wilkie

Full brand infrastructure built from nothing in nine months

There was no brand collateral when I joined: no guidelines, no templates, no photography. I built the entire suite independently while simultaneously running campaigns and managing the website launch.

  • Brand guidelines, standard deck (Canva to PowerPoint), sector brochures, PVC-coated textiles catalogues, product symbol suite, email signatures, letterhead, and meeting templates; all in active sales use
  • 50+ product and factory photographs shot and edited in Adobe Lightroom, the company's first original visual library

Result

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

05

Website and Content · Wilkie

Website launch and 9-month SEO editorial 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. The website was treated as a demand generation asset from the start, not a brochure.

  • Full copy written across aerospace, defence, filtration, energy, industrial, and PVC-coated sectors
  • 9-month SEO editorial roadmap built post-launch with AI search visibility built into the strategy

Result

Live at onewilkie.com since April 2026. SEO article production beginning July 2026.

06

Stakeholder Management · Wilkie

International delegation visit: end-to-end coordination

A commercially significant international visit coordinated entirely in-house. I managed every detail across marketing, operations, and senior leadership, from venue booking and cross-department scheduling to the physical gifts and visitor itinerary.

  • Venue booked at the Netherbow room, Radisson Blu Edinburgh; logistics and scheduling managed across departments
  • Six branded whisky gift sets and Edinburgh Castle memento postcards designed and hand-finished personally
  • Full visitor itinerary built covering sightseeing, dining, and a whisky tour

Result

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

Background

Education

BA Marketing, University of Stirling, June 2025. I took a gap year between years three and four to do the Siemens internship in London. Commercial results were already 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

Internship, degree, then sole hire

  • My Siemens internship 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)

What I bring

Skills

At Siemens, I worked across content, email, CRM reporting, and stakeholder communications for a global programme. At Wilkie, I owned the entire marketing function from scratch. The skills below reflect both environments.

Demand Generation

  • LinkedIn Campaign Manager
  • Agency briefing and oversight
  • Budget management
  • Mid-flight optimisation
  • Lead attribution
  • Performance reporting

CRM and Revenue

  • Monday.com CRM build
  • Salesforce
  • 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 LinkedIn Campaign ManagerSalesforce Monday.comMailchimp GA4CanvaAdobe Illustrator Adobe LightroomAdobe AcrobatNotion TrelloExclaimerHTML / CSS