Senior Major Account Executive

Job Description

Would you like the opportunity to work in a dynamic sales role?

Do you love selling high value innovative solutions to customers?

Join our growing Sales team

We work with world leading companies including Public Sector Departments to make the internet fast and secure. Partnering the Global 500, we collaborate with customers and prospects to align Akamai solutions to business needs. We build relationships and insights to maximize product value through the full scope of our global platform.

Work with our Largest, Most Strategic Accounts

Selling our product range to prospects and our existing largest customers which would include Public Sector Departments. You will be responsible for the full cycle of sales activities from lead generation to deal closure. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams internally to help identify opportunities for growth, development and customer loyalty.

As a Major Account Executive, you will be responsible for:

• Fostering long term and solid relationships through understanding customer needs and being an effective advocate within Akamai
• Maintaining sales pipeline, accurate monthly and quarterly forecast to increase visibility of prospects and customers.
• Working with integrated cross-functional teams to ensure customer's requirements are successfully delivered
• Meeting bookings and revenue growth quota within the set of assigned accounts to meet and exceed forecasts

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have relevant sales experience working with large enterprise customers and or Public Sector Departments.
• Have experience selling enterprise-class technology software, SaaS, internet-based technology solutions to enterprise class companies.
• Demonstrate experience of account management with short term and long term planning, selling value at C-Level.
• Demonstrate a good understanding of technology and the Internet, including cyber security.
• Have experience working in a collaborative, results oriented environment building executive level relationships with high-level customers.
• Have good written and verbal communication skills in both French and English

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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