New Business Executive

  • CMR Recruitment Ltd
  • City, London
  • May 14, 2026
Full time Marketing

Job Description

We are looking for a New Business Executive to join a busy and ambitious sales team, supporting the growth of a market leading recycling solutions business. The New Business Executive role is centred on outbound new business development. Your day-to-day focus will be speaking with new businesses, starting conversations, understanding needs and booking high quality meetings for the wider sales team.

You will work to clear activity and performance targets, with your results tracked through measurable outputs. For the right person, this offers strong earning potential, structure and the opportunity to build excellent core sales skills.

This is not an account management role.
This is not inbound lead handling.
This is not relationship nurturing.

The responsibilities of the New Business Executive include but are not limited to:

  • Proactively generate new business opportunities through outbound calls, email and LinkedIn outreach.
  • Hold structured discovery conversations to understand a prospect s needs, challenges and potential fit.
  • Book and qualify meetings for Business Development Managers.
  • Accurately record activity, notes and outcomes in the CRM system.
  • Consistently work towards agreed daily, weekly and monthly performance targets.

Skills, Experience & Key Candidate Attributes of the New Business Executive:

  • Previous experience in outbound lead generation, telesales or a target focused sales role.
  • Clear, confident and professional communication skills on the phone.
  • Comfortable working to activity and performance targets.
  • Resilient, self-motivated and able to handle objections positively.
  • Organised, detail focused and proactive in managing workload.

If you are driven and ready to take the next step in your career as a New Business Executive who wants to make a real impact in a growing company, we would love to hear from you. Apply now.