Katie S.

Marketing Lead @ Quickfire🏆 & Marketing strategy, consulting, mentoring @ Plantketing 🌿👩‍💻 transforming marketing chaos into smooth operations, wins & growth 🌱

Budapest Metropolitan Area

About

📍 Leading marketing @ Quickfire - supporting both the internal and external teams & enjoying the luck to be able to work with some seriously awesome people. 🧠 Happily lending my brain to (non-competing) SMEs and entrepreneurs on the side, in my free time around all things comms, marketing and a bit of operations as a freelance strategist and advisor. Mentoring young talent - someone once said that my superpower is believing in people until they believe in themselves. Side quest "gigs" and passion projects under the umbrella of Plantketing 🌱 Always open for enquiries and no-strings chats! www.plantketing.com Experienced marketing & communications professional, skilled in project management, consulting and mentoring. Passionate about thought leadership and cross-team collaboration. Self-motivated, organised and reliable, weirdly obsessed with efficiency and all things process - balanced with highly agile project management skills. That's me in a nutshell. Also proud dog mum to a rescue girl 🐕 and plant mum to 100+ houseplants. 🪴 So I'm somewhat good at nurturing, relationships and creating an environment to flourish and thrive, I guess. That's where the name "Plantketing" came from. I've married up my love for marketing and plants. About all my plant-based puns you may or may not stumble upon... sorry (not really truly sorry) 📍sometimes can be found in Norwich UK & mostly in Budapest HU Feel free to connect and say hi! 🙋‍♀️ (If you follow up the hi with an immediate pitch slap - forgive me, but I'll most likely ignore it. I'm all for meaningful connections over being sold to right off the bat!)

Experience

  • Quickfire - Shopify Premier Partner (4 yrs 10 mos)
    • Marketing Lead
      Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    • Marketing Operations Manager
      Jan 2024 - Feb 2026 · 2 yrs 2 mos

      Following a transition from the operations to the marketing department, I hang it all together from strategy, planning and budgeting all the way down to daily execution. Liaising with and coordinating external partners, agencies and contractors, as well as supporting the in-house team, working closely together with co-founders and the growth department to ensure alignment, while also taking the lead on some projects. My favourite ones to lead are thought leadership co-marketing projects shared with the brilliant partner network we have. Previously, I've worked with Quickfire on studio resource planning (for which we successfully implemented a new system together), hours tracking, utilisation, team trainings, and partner lunch and learn events.

    • Production Executive
      Sep 2021 - Feb 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Marketing Advisor at Self-employed
    Jan 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

    Offering marketing consultancy and support - ongoing, if interested, learn more at www.plantketing.com

  • Marketing Consultant at newpush
    Jun 2024 - Oct 2024 · 5 mos

    Consulted on marketing strategy and facilitated creating their marketing roadmap.

  • Digital PR Executive at Gravity Global
    Apr 2021 - Aug 2021 · 5 mos

    Supported the digital PR team, drafted press releases, secured backlinks, monitored opportunities and journalist requests, and dipped my toe in pitching. It was an amazing experience with a great team, I've learned a lot during my brief time here.

  • Marketing Manager at KSB Company
    Jun 2019 - Mar 2020 · 10 mos

    I was marketing manager of the Hungarian subsidiary, planned and managed marketing based on corporate guidelines, adapted campaigns to domestic market, coordinated all marketing activities and partner events, from press releases to campaigns to print media to merch orders and more.