Network Account Manager

Would you like to manage and maintain relationships with Internet Service Providers and Fiber Providers?

Do you like to work across diverse geographies, environments, cultures and technologies?

Join our Network Strategy Team!

Partner with the best

As a Network Account Manager, you'll work with a team of global Account Managers to provide best possible outcomes with Internet Service Providers and Fiber Providers. You will define strategy and cost savings to improve performance while ensuring Akamai meets its targets for growth and environmental sustainability.

As a Network Account Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Developing relationships with National and International Carriers and Service Providers to meet needs for deploying connectivity to and between Data Centers

• Partnering alongside internal infrastructure groups to establish optimal technical, commercial, and contractual conditions for network expansions

• Collaborating with the Akamai Data Center team to assist in identifying the right technical and commercial terms for fiber builds

• Working closely with existing and new Partners and Vendors to identify cost-effective effective business relationships and then executing those agreements

• Managing contract negotiations to ensure Akamai's platforms can scale efficiently and support our customers increasing demands

• Ensuring capacity is upgraded in a timely/effective manner by working closely with internal and external provisioning teams

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 5 years of relevant experience and a Bachelor's degree in Business, Data Center Management or related field or its equivalent

• Have excellent commercial and contractual negotiation skills, the ability to identify creative ideas for complex negotiation situations

• Have a practical understanding of technologies and services such as IP Transit, Waves/DWDM, PNI, fiber connectivity, colocation and cross-connects.

• Possess solid data analysis and financial skills, with the ability to evaluate pricing, total cost, savings opportunities and business cases

• Demonstrate excellent organization and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities across vendors, projects and internal teams

• Possess excellent communication skills and the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across functions and geographies

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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