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Senior Major Account Executive – Cloud Sales
Location
Japan
Posted
164 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Major Account Executive – Cloud Sales
Akamai Technologies
• Oversee the go-to-market strategy of our Cloud Computing business • Drive market development initiatives • Lead sales programs • Collaborate with Sales, Technical Pre-Sales, Product, and Marketing teams • Create a strategic sales plan for Cloud Portfolio • Lead customer engagements with C-Level executives to DevOps engineers • Collaborate with Akamai Sales and Pre-Sales leaders • Develop a deep understanding of the Cloud Computing market
Job Requirements
- 8 years+ sales experience in Cloud Services Sales (infrastructure and/or Software) in the B2B Enterprise market
- Understand existing and emerging cloud technologies
- Execute a challenger sales methodology
- Good written and verbal communication skills in Both Japanese and English
Benefits
- Professional development opportunities
- Learn, grow and have a meaningful impact
- Internal events like the APEX Expo
- Tools such as Linkedin Learning
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