New Business Outreach Executive (freelance) in London

We are looking for a proactive New Business Outreach Executive to bolster the growth of our communications consultancy. While our core specialism is corporate reporting, this role will also support broader propositions, including employee engagement, digital and sustainability.

In this role, you will be working under the guidance of the New Business Director and taking responsibility for executing an established new business strategy and plan. This is a hands-on role focused on outbound activity, which includes identifying and building prospect lists, conducting both cold and warm outreach and managing outreach campaigns.

Success in this role will be defined by the ability to identify and target the right prospects and to translate the outreach activity into valuable client meetings and engagement at events. This is a part-time position with work structured around weekly deliverables. You will be engaged on a contract basis as a self-employed individual.

Start: March 2026, min term 3 months.

Location: Flexible/Remote, but some on-site work in London is required initially for training purposes.

What you’ll be doing in this role:

• Execute outbound new business activity in line with the agreed strategy and KPIs.
• Conduct cold outreach via email and phone to senior decision-makers.
• Research, build and maintain targeted prospect lists across relevant sectors.
• Qualify leads and seek to secure introductory meetings for the New Business Director and Proposition Leads.
• Support follow-up activity and nurture prospects through the early stages of the pipeline.
• Maintain accurate records of all outreach activity, responses and outcomes – using Pipedrive to make this tracking and reporting easier and working with outreach execs in other regions.
• Always seek to refine messaging and targeting to improve responses and outcomes – track trends and themes to enable this.
• Build in-depth knowledge of our prospects and identify new ways to engage with different stakeholders in the same organisation.
• Help convert prospects into clients across corporate reporting, digital, employee engagement and sustainability.
• Track the success of your outreach, so we know how to adapt and build.

What you’ll need to be successful in this role:

• Proven experience in new business development, outreach or sales within professional services, communications, consultancy or agency environments.
• Demonstrate confidence and credibility in cold calling and cold emailing senior stakeholders. You will enjoy this type of outreach and relish the opportunity to speak to new people.
• Strong research skills and ability to identify and prioritise high-quality prospects.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable working to KPIs/targets and managing outreach activity independently.
• Professional, credible and a positive ambassador for the consultancy.

It’s a bonus if you have:

• Experience managing outreach campaigns using a CRM system (Pipedrive).
• Ideally, you have some experience working in a creative or communications consultancy setting.

Next Steps:

If you are successfully shortlisted for the role, the recruitment team will be in touch via email, and the process will begin from there. We endeavour to contact you within 5 working days of your application, however, this may vary depending on the volume of applications we receive.

As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.