Senior Major Account Executive, New Accounts
At a glance
Senior Account Executive role at Fa Extu Saasfaprod1. Remote, Australia.
Pay not stated
Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.
What you'll do
- Build and manage a high-volume pipeline across Australian commerce and media accounts using marketing support
- Find and close new customer accounts within territory rules and acquisition plans
- Coordinate with sales engineers, internal teams, channel partners, field marketing, and sales development
- Keep customer-development work current in the CRM and serve as a key contact for stakeholders
What you bring
- At least eight years of sales experience, including successful new-business acquisition
- Enterprise sales experience with cybersecurity software solutions
- A record of exceeding quarterly or annual quotas tied to enterprise new-customer goals
- Strong presentation and communication skills, with credibility among customer C-suite stakeholders
Who this fits
This role suits a senior seller focused on winning new enterprise customers in Australia's media and commerce sectors. You'll work remotely from Australia and collaborate across sales, technical, support, marketing, and channel teams. The job centers on individual ownership of prospecting, pipeline creation, and closing.
From the employer
Would you like to work in a dynamic sales-growth role?
Do you love selling innovative solutions to prospects?
Join our APJ Sales team!
Our team works with world leading companies to make the internet fast and secure. As a partner to the Global 500, we collaborate with customers and prospects. Aligning Akamai solutions to business needs. We build relationships and insights to maximize product value through the full scope of our global platform.
Partner with the best
As a Senior Major Account Executive, you will be a regional expert in new customer acquisition sales. Your primary focus will be prospecting and closing new logos for Akamai in commerce and media industry segments. Success will be clearly defined and there will be room for creativity to achieve your targets.
As a Senior Major Account Executive, you will be responsible for:
- Utilizing marketing resources to create/manage a high-volume sales pipeline across the Australian media and commerce market verticals
- Working in integrated partnerships with sales engineers, internal support resources and channel partners to ensure consultative engagement
- Planning and executing on new customer acquisition within territory guidelines
- Close-working and collaboration with field marketing and sales development functions
- Recording customer development activities within a CRM to ensure operational excellence
- Acting as the primary point of contact to key internal and customer stakeholders to build relationships and customer success
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 8+ years selling experience
- Demonstrate successful sales experience in new business acquisition
- Have experience in selling cyber security software solutions to Enterprise level customers
- Have a proven track record in over-achieving quarterly/annual quotas with enterprise level new customer targets
- Have high ethics, integrity, and be very self-motivated
- Demonstrate excellent communication and presentation skills and an ability to build trusting relationships with customers including at the C-suite level
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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