Senior Major Account Executive

Would you like to work in a dynamic sales-growth role?
Do you love selling innovative solutions to prospects?
Join our Sales team!
Our team works with world leading companies to make the internet fast and secure. As a partner to the Global 500, we collaborate with customers and prospects. Aligning Akamai solutions to business needs. We build relationships and insights to maximize product value through the full scope of our global platform.
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As a Senior Major Account Executive, you will be a regional expert in acquisition sales. You will be managing existing accounts as well as acquiring new customers depends on the territory assignment. Success will be clearly defined and there will be room for creativity to achieve your targets.
As a Senior Major Account Executive, you will be responsible for:

Utilizing marketing resources to create/manage a high-volume sales pipeline

Working closely with sales engineers, internal support resources and channel partners to ensure consultative engagement with prospects

Farming the existing customer account with the upsell or cross-sell of new products/solution

Planning and executing on new customer acquisition within territory expertise

Recording customer development activities within a CRM to ensure operational excellence

Communicating effectively with all levels of prospective buyers (including executives) and internally at Akamai

Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:

Have relevant sales experience and experience in new business acquisition

Have experience selling hardware, software or cloud computing solutions

Have experience selling Cyber Security solutions (i.e. API security, Micro segmentation, WAF, Bot protection, Anti DDOS protection and DNS protection)

Have a proven track record in over-achieving quarterly/annual quotas with enterprise level targets

Have high ethics, integrity, and be very self-motivated

Demonstrate excellent communication and presentation skills and an ability to build trusting relationships with customers

About us
At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.

At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.
Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.
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