Josh Esmond
London,Wimbledon
Summary
A highly motivated professional with a strong foundation in verbal and written communication, complemented by exceptional time management and workflow prioritisation skills. Demonstrates extensive organisational and research abilities, alongside a talent for creative content creation and storytelling. Committed to leveraging these skills to drive impactful results in future roles, with a focus on continuous personal and professional development.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work history
Commercial Associate
Clearly
London
07.2025 - Current
- Executed second commercial hire to strengthen sales capabilities.
- Designed fleet intelligence software that reduced costs and saved time for fleet managers.
- Joined pre-revenue phase, responsible for developing pipeline and enhancing product offerings.
- Collaborated with leading brands to gather customer feedback on product features.
Sales Development Lead
Soly
London
01.2024 - 07.2025
- Joined as the second SDR hire, quickly became team lead.
- Handles bookings of inbound B2C leads as well as outbound B2B leads.
- Created new strategy that increased conversions of inbound leads from 36% to 48%
- Helped train and onboard new colleagues. As well as share best practices to wider sales team on best times to contact, call methods, scripts and more.
- Tech Stack - Cognism, Zoho, Notion and Univerge
- Averaged 105% quota across every quarter
Business Development Representative
Quartz Network
Putney
05.2023 - 01.2024
- Founding member of the UK BDR team
- Focused on reaching out to senior marketers and sales people for marketing SaaS companies to sponsor our events. Setting qualified meetings with key accounts such as Reachdesk, Emplifi and Marigold.
- Q2 (Ramp): 60% Quota
- Q3: 105% Quota
- Helped train new BDR's and shared best practice to the wider team, including email copy, ICP knowledge, cold calling tips and utilising the tools correctly.
Attendee Relations Executive
Quartz Network
Putney
02.2023 - 05.2023
- Handled the qualification and outreach of new attendees for our Visions/IMPACT event.
- Reaching out to senior decision makers in a operations and IT by LinkedIn, cold calling and email outreach.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Drama, Applied Theatre and Education: Writing for Performance
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
London06.2020
Skills
- Strong verbal and written communication
- Time keeping and prioritisation of workflow
- Extensive organisation and researching ability
- Creative content creation and storytelling
- Motivated and brings up morale
Hobbies
- Playwriting
- Immersive Experiences
- Bouldering
- Karate
- Escape Rooms
References
References will be available upon request.
Timeline
Commercial Associate
Clearly
07.2025 - Current
Sales Development Lead
Soly
01.2024 - 07.2025
Business Development Representative
Quartz Network
05.2023 - 01.2024
Attendee Relations Executive
Quartz Network
02.2023 - 05.2023
Bachelor of Arts - Drama, Applied Theatre and Education: Writing for Performance
Royal Central School of Speech and Drama