Senior Major Account Executive, New Accounts

Akamai Technologies, Inc.; Sydney; Hybride; AUD 140 000 - 200 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Akamai Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Senior Major Account Executive to drive new customer acquisition across Australia, focusing on commerce and media sectors. The role demands prospecting, closing new logos, and building executive relationships to maximize Akamai's platform value.

You will work with sales engineers, channel partners, and field marketing to craft consultative deals, manage a robust pipeline, and ensure customer success, including C-suite engagements.

Qualifications

• 8+ years selling experience.
• Experience in new business acquisition.
• Experience selling cybersecurity software to Enterprise level customers.
• Proven track record of exceeding quarterly/annual quotas.
• High ethics, integrity, and self-motivation.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, building relationships with customers including at the C-suite level.

Responsabilités

• Prospect and close new logos in Australia within commerce and media segments.
• Collaborate with sales engineers, support resources, and channel partners for consultative engagement.
• Plan and execute on new customer acquisition within territory guidelines.
• Collaborate with field marketing and sales development teams.
• Record customer development activities in CRM for operational excellence.
• Be the primary point of contact to internal and customer stakeholders to build relationships and customer success.

Connaissances

New business sales

Enterprise sales

Cybersecurity products

C-suite relationships

Pipeline management

Ethics and integrity

Communication skills

Outils

CRM software

Description du poste

Job Description

Would you like to work in a dynamic sales-growth role? Do you love selling innovative solutions to prospects? Join our APJ 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.

Partner with the best

As a Senior Major Account Executive, you will be a regional expert in new customer acquisition sales. Your primary focus will be prospecting and closing new logos for Akamai in commerce and media industry segments. Success will be clearly defined and there will be room for creativity to achieve your targets.

• Utilizing marketing resources to create/manage a high-volume sales pipeline across the Australian media and commerce market verticals
• Working in integrated partnerships with sales engineers, internal support resources and channel partners to ensure consultative engagement
• Planning and executing on new customer acquisition within territory guidelines
• Close-working and collaboration with field marketing and sales development functions
• Recording customer development activities within a CRM to ensure operational excellence
• Acting as the primary point of contact to key internal and customer stakeholders to build relationships and customer success

Do What You Love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 8+ years selling experience
• Demonstrate successful sales experience in new business acquisition
• Have experience in selling cyber security software solutions to Enterprise level customers
• Have a proven track record in over-achieving quarterly/annual quotas with enterprise level new customer 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 including at the C-suite level

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.

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