Senior Major Account Executive; Hunter

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 organizations 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 Germany. 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 Region.

As a Major 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.
• Applying of 'hunting' sales tools & best practices.
• Working with integrated cross-functional teams, ensuring your customers realise the Value of their Akamai services during onboarding.

Do what you love

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 cybersecurity.
• Have experience working in a collaborative, results oriented environment building executive level relationships with high-level customers.
• Have good written and verbal communication skills with fluency in both German and English

Work in a way that works for you

Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, Flex Base, 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 power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

Working for you

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.

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.