Akamai Sales Development Representative - 

United States 

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As a Sales Development Representative, you will identify and qualify enterprise account sales leads and opportunities. You will focus on analyzing business needs by conducting information-gathering to pre-qualifying opportunities through phone, social and email contact. You will be generating outbound qualified leads for regional or international sales teams.

As a Sales Development Representative, you will be responsible for:

• Identifying, prospecting and penetrating sales accounts to achieve pipeline and forecast goals
• Updating lead and prospect activity in salesforce to ensure KPI attainment
• Collaborating in a business-to-business sales environment to position our technology solutions to a varied audience
• Setting qualified introductory meetings for sales team and nurturing top of funnel pipeline to facilitate sales opportunities

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 2 years of relevant experience
• Demonstrate experience of selling within the sales cycle
• Have experience identifying business needs through information-gathering to pre-qualify opportunities
• Be comfortable speaking with decision makers via various mediums (social, email, phone and video)
• Have experience with Microsoft Office, Salesloft/Xant or Salesforce.com
• Enjoy working in a team and have a desire to grow in the organization

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

Our benefit plan options are designed to meet your individual needs and budget, both today and in the future.