Kirsten Bolton

Kirsten Bolton

Role: Marketing Director
Region: Yorkshire and Scotland

Kirsten is a commercial marketing director with over 20 years experience across both public and private sectors, including manufacturing, engineering, leisure & tourism, education and business support. She placed in the 2019 Financial Times Top 100 Most Influential Women in Engineering list (UK & Europe).

Kirsten has a comprehensive, proven background in lead generation, tactical & strategic planning and digital marketing. Data driven, she successfully drives growth in company ROI through innovative and cutting-edge integrated campaigns. Other areas of expertise include stakeholder & consumer engagement, public relations and building brands.

Experience


Portakabin

Created a strategy to boost lead generation across the UK & Europe and recruited a team of talented marketing managers to deliver it in 2 months.

Willerby

Fundamentally changed traditional B2B model to B2C of this holiday home manufacturer to shift the balance of power from dealer to consumer. The lead generation strategy generated an additional £7m in sales in its first year, directly attributable to marketing intervention.

SolarFrame

Developed and deliver a cohesive and integrated marketing strategy for the manufacture, distribution and retail of home improvement products. This included the design and launch of new websites and a 5000sqft retail store in central Leeds.

AMRC with Boeing

Led the marketing function for ten high value centres focussing on transforming industrial and economic performance alongside 125 global industrial partners.

National Metals Technology Centre (NAMTEC)

Created a strategy that delivered an extensive range of training and consultancy programmes to a base of 20,000 manufacturing companies.

School & Children’s Food Trust

Following Jamie Oliver lobbying Government to invest in improving school food standards, implemented marketing strategies that exceeded targets and delivered a 35% increase in children eating school food across England.

Case studies within
Yorkshire and Scotland

Arrow Industrial

Arrow: The Marketing Centre helped drive an impressive 18% year-one revenue increase

Arrow, the UK's leading industrial door provider, achieved double digit growth. Learn how we...

Siddall & Hilton: 205% increase in website traffic and 226% growth in views

Siddall & Hilton's transformation journey: Building a marketing function for top-line growth....

modular building being lifted by a crane

Elite Systems GB: Filling pipeline and achieving 30% growth

Learn how we helped to empower Elite Systems GB to achieve £11m turnover amidst distractions and...