Regional Sales Manager

AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES APJ PTE. LTD.; Singapore; Hybrid; SGD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Akamai Technologies APJ PTE. LTD. is seeking a Regional Sales Manager to drive growth across Singapore, Thailand, and Malaysia. You will lead a geographically distributed sales team, align regional strategy with SEA leadership, and engage senior executives to expand enterprise cloud/security solutions.

Join a leadership team focused on accelerating revenue, building robust pipelines, and delivering consistent regional execution across Security, Compute, and Delivery offerings.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading high-performing sales teams and exceeding revenue targets.
• Experience in enterprise technology sales with complex cycles and senior executive engagement.
• Strong planning, forecasting, and pipeline management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Developing the annual go-to-market plan to attain business results and maintain market leadership.
• Leading a team of Major Account Executives responsible for growth in their territories across SEA.
• Developing repeatable sales plays and productivity programs to accelerate velocity and win rates.

Skills

Team leadership

Enterprise sales

Territory planning

Pipeline management

Forecasting

Deal strategy

Partner ecosystem

Executive relationships

Cloud/Cloud Security

Cross-country coordination

Job description

Do you love leading and motivating successful teams?

Would you like to build customer loyalty?

Join our South East Asia Sales Team(Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia)

Our team works with world-leading companies in every major industry to make internet fast, reliable and secure. As a partner to the Global 500s, we collaborate with customers and prospects to align Akamai solutions to their business needs and enable break-out growth.

Develop the Sales Strategy

This exciting opportunity will see you drive sustainable revenue growth across Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia. You will acquire new customers, expand existing accounts and strengthen Akamai's market position across Security, Compute and Delivery. You will lead the sales organization to achieve revenue targets, build a reliable pipeline and drive consistent regional execution.

As a Regional Sales Manager, you are part of SEA GTM Leadership team and will be responsible for

• Developing the annual go-to-market plan to attain desired business results and maintain a market-leader position
• Leading a team of Major Account Executives who are responsible for growth in their respective territories
• Developing repeatable sales plays/productivity programs to accelerate sales velocity and win rates
• Working with Service Line management to develop pre-sales technical consulting strategies to enhance sales velocity
• Developing executive level relationships with new and existing customers to quickly build rapport and overall customer satisfaction
• Executing a successful partner and alliance strategy and ensuring it is effectively administered

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have proven experience building, developing and motivating high-performing sales teams, with a track record of achieving and exceeding revenue targets.
• Demonstrate the ability to lead and manage a geographically distributed sales workforce across multiple countries and cultures.
• Demonstrate excellent track record in enterprise technology sales, including complex sales cycles, strategic account management and engagement with senior customer executives.
• Possess exceptional commercial acumen and experience in territory planning, pipeline management, forecasting, deal strategy and sales performance management.
• Have relevant experience working with leading Cloud/Cloud Security companies and the associated Partner ecosystem.
• Lead Akamai's sales business across Singapore, Thailand and Malaysia, aligning regional strategy and execution with South East Asia and APJ leadership.

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.

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