Sales Development Representative

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Sales Development Representative qualifying enterprise leads and generating sales-ready opportunities for Akamai's cloud, security, and content delivery platform. Partnering with Sales and Marketing to build pipeline.

Responsibilities:

  • Prospect for new business opportunities via outbound initiatives
  • Qualify, nurture, and develop inbound leads on set target accounts
  • Generate sales-ready meetings and opportunities for Account Executives
  • Research contacts and generate demand through call and email campaigns
  • Attend marketing events
  • Develop lead qualification and prospect engagement using phone and chat systems to achieve or exceed set quotas
  • Use and maintain Akamai's SaaS toolkit, including CRM and sales engagement platforms, to keep data accurate
  • Identify and qualify enterprise account leads and opportunities
  • Analyze business needs through information-gathering and pre-qualify opportunities via phone, social, and email engagement
  • Generate qualified opportunities for regional sales teams
  • Partner with Akamai's Sales organization and Marketing team to identify and qualify customer opportunities, follow up on campaigns and events, increase pipeline, and generate demand for new customer revenue

Requirements:

  • At least 4 years of experience in Sales/Business Development or Telemarketing
  • Prior experience in Cybersecurity or Cloud computing
  • Interest in analyzing and identifying business needs through information gathering to pre-qualify opportunities
  • Comfort level doing online research and leveraging various software
  • Desire to work in a team and grow in the organization
  • Able to communicate in English

Benefits:

  • Health, well-being, finances, and life-beyond-work benefits
  • Flexible work arrangements through Akamai's FlexBase program, including working at home, in an office, or a combination of both