Marketing Executive

Jasmin Ivanova

I'm a marketing executive specialising in B2B demand generation, content marketing, and pipeline attribution. Before Wilkie, a 14-month placement at Siemens where I rebuilt a declining global 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
£679k+
Weekly pipeline tracked via attribution
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 attributed to first campaign
487%
Newsletter audience growth at Siemens
867%
LinkedIn impressions growth, 30 days organic
£679k+
Weekly pipeline under active attribution
212%
Peak content engagement rate

Experience

Enterprise-scale at Siemens, then full commercial 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. Aerospace, defence, filtration, energy, and industrial sectors. I built the entire marketing function — strategy, demand generation, content, attribution, and reporting — from nothing.

Demand generation and campaign strategy

  • The company had never run a paid campaign. I designed the demand generation strategy — selecting the channel mix, setting audience parameters, and owning the brief — then directed the agency through execution. 231 landing page visits, 4 attributed leads, £135,000 in pipeline within three months.
  • 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 a content marketing strategy for a B2B audience with no prior channel presence — brand voice, editorial guidelines, sector-specific messaging, and a 14-week calendar, all produced independently. No internal amplification. 867% growth in impressions within 30 days. Carousels reached 212% engagement rate against a 2–5% B2B benchmark.
  • Developed 10+ technical content pieces across five industrial sectors, written to build credibility with engineering and procurement decision-makers. The strongest signal: a sector-adjacent user tagged four additional industry contacts into a thread without any prompt — the kind of organic distribution that reflects genuine strategic positioning.

Pipeline attribution and revenue reporting

  • The business had no way to connect marketing activity to revenue. I built the pipeline infrastructure from scratch in Monday.com — campaign tracking, lead attribution, and commercial reporting — and trained the sales team on it. The system now tracks a substantial volume of enquiries weekly, with significant pipeline under active commercial management.
  • I built full lead source attribution across GA4 and Monday.com — every marketing channel tracked to pipeline and revenue. Marketing's commercial contribution has been reported to the board monthly since, 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 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 at a global industrial software company. Owned the global customer advocacy programme across international markets — audience growth, content strategy, event communications, and CRM reporting.

  • The global advocacy newsletter had low engagement, misdiagnosed as a content problem. I identified it as an audience segmentation and format issue, 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 revised advocacy vision to reverse declining participation. Event attendance increased 200–300% across international markets.
  • Sales teams had no visibility of advocacy data at the account level, which was limiting 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.

Work samples

What I've built and run

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

📈

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 content marketing at scale

Every metric here is organic — no paid amplification, no internal staff briefed to engage. The content strategy was built to reach B2B engineering and procurement audiences with technically credible material, and the numbers reflect that.

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

Key projects

Selected projects

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

01

Demand Generation

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

The company had never run a paid campaign. I designed the demand generation strategy, selected and briefed the agency, approved all creative, and owned every targeting and budget decision. The agency executed; the strategy and commercial accountability were mine.

  • 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 attributed pipeline, 4 qualified leads — within three months of first campaign going live.

View campaign assets

Background

Education

BA Marketing, University of Stirling, June 2025. The Siemens placement ran concurrently with year three — commercial results 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

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)

What I bring

Skills

The core is demand generation and pipeline attribution — building the programmes that bring in qualified pipeline, and the infrastructure to prove it. Content marketing, SEO, brand strategy, email, and analytics sit around that centre, applied across enterprise operations at Siemens and a full zero-to-one 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