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Katrina Melvin

B2B Marketing & Communications Strategist

€752/day
Edinburgh, GB
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Katrina

I am a B2B specialist with 15 years of experience helping global brands build the trust and authority necessary for sustainable growth. Across energy, commodities and enterprise technology, I help businesses navigate the complexities of the energy transition and build the frameworks for brand-led demand generation. I specialise in businesses with long sales cycles and high-value consultancy models. Chartered Marketer (CIM), CIPR Sustainability Comms.

How I help as a B2B strategist

I build the engines of authority. I design owned platforms, such as insight hubs, technical and thought leadership series and podcasts, and pair them with earned media strategies. This ensures your expertise is reaching its audience.

I help brands grow and pivot while protecting the trust they have built over decades. I ensure global messages land effectively on the ground, tailoring the story to win across different regional and regulatory landscapes.

I translate technical complexity into a clear, authoritative voice. I build the internal systems, incentives and automated workflows that allow your experts to lead the conversation without being held back by workload or inexperience.

I protect value during change, leading the white-glove integration of new acquisitions. I ensure brand transitions are seamless, protecting performance and authority while bringing the new brand into the winning operating model of the parent brand.

My approach to B2B marketing and communications

I design communications that influence the entire decision-making unit.

I simplify the complex sale. Whether it is hydrogen technology or commodity data, I transform complex offerings into clear propositions that resonate with audiences and drive growth.

I treat reputation as a commercial asset. In B2B, brand drives demand. I build the systems that establish your organisation as the "default choice" long before a prospect visits your website.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Edinburgh (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Net Zero Technology Centre
    Head of Marketing and Communications
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    November 2024 - March 2026 (1 year and 4 months)
    Aberdeen, United Kingdom
    Leading communications for a £180m government-funded innovation centre, bridging the gap between technology innovation, national policy and local and industry stakeholders
    Rebuilt the centre's model from basic PR to an integrated ecosystem, establishing in-house sentiment monitoring and a unified net zero narrative to secure industry and government buy-in
    Served as lead counsel to the CEO on reputation and crisis management, managing the communications strategy for a £100m business case for the UK and Scottish Governments
    Transformed the marketing function into a growth engine, achieving 5% revenue attribution in the first year with a trajectory toward 20%
    Established a structured process to transition engineers into industry thought leaders through media training and narrative consistency
    Communication strategy Go-to-Market (GTM) Strategy Public affairs Marketing and Communications Planning Sustainability Strategy
  • Fastmarkets
    Head of Brand, Communications and Content
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    November 2023 - November 2024 (1 year)
    London, United Kingdom
    Global brand owner for a 600-employee price reporting agency, governing brand, digital presence and corporate narratives
    Directed the integration of a complex digital estate, migrating multiple legacy brands into a single, performance-optimised web platform to ensure a unified experience
    Established global governance and content workflows across all communication channels, acting as the primary brand guardian to ensure tone of voice consistency and quality control across diverse commodity markets
    Led a high-performing team of nine specialists (communications, social and content), implementing a culture of data-led decision-making
    Replaced external agency reliance by building an internal press office from the ground up, securing a 10% increase in top-tier media coverage
  • Fastmarkets
    Director of Market Engagement
    ENERGY AND UTILITIES
    December 2020 - November 2023 (2 years and 11 months)
    London, United Kingdom
    Led the brand's entry into high-growth commodity verticals, establishing the communication infrastructure and stakeholder networks required to secure market share in new geographies
    Launched Fast Forward podcast (2,000+ downloads in two episodes) to expand reach into new audience segments
    Supported the commercial launch of roughly 30 commodity price benchmarks and built integrated campaigns that established authority in new sectors and drove the adoption of 10 new prices per year
    Built a global content and communications team of nine from the ground up, driving a 25% YoY increase in marketing-attributable revenue

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Education

  • Master of the Arts
    University of Aberdeen
    2003
    English language and literature
  • Master of Letters
    University of Stirling
    2010
    Publishing studies, mass media and communication

Certifications

  • Jasper Certified 2024
    JasperAI
    2024
    Marketing Automation artificial intelligence
  • Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing
    Chartered Institute of Marketing
    2025
    Strategic planning Digital communication

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