Strategic Account Executive

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 some of the World's leading organisations, helping make their digital experiences faster & secure. We are focused on building long term partnerships with our customers. We achieve this through gaining an understanding of their technical, operational & commercial goals, aligning Akamai's portfolio of products & services into the perfect solution for them. Help Akamai expand our market reach.

You’ll be responsible for selling Akamai solutions to new customers across the UK&I. Working with marketing on demand generation, you’ll be working lock step with your Solutions Engineer to deal closure. You’ll be supported by cross-functional internal teams, from product specialists, partner managers & marketing all chartered with the same goal: to drive faster new customer acquisition in the UK&I.

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

• Account Planning & execution against your Target Account List.
• Demonstrating your hunting strategy through adopting a 'right solution, right time' approach, meeting your target customers' needs.
• Collaborating with Sales Specialists, Marketing & Channel Teams on your 'Hunting Strategy.'
• Maintaining sales pipeline, accurate monthly and quarterly forecasting.
• Adoption of 'hunting' sales tools & best practices.
• Working with integrated cross-functional teams, ensuring your customers realise the Value of their Akamai services during onboarding.

To be successful in this role you will:

• 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.

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together. At Akamai, we will provide you with opportunities to grow, flourish, and achieve great things. Our benefit options are designed to meet your individual needs for today and in the future. We provide benefits surrounding all aspects of your life:

• Your health
• Your finances
• Your family
• Your time at work
• Your time pursuing other endeavors

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

Akamai Technologies is an affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength that diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.