Akamai Sales Development Representative - 

Netherlands 

308274233

As a Sales Development Representative, you will identify and qualify enterprise account sales leads and opportunities. Focusing on analysing business needs by conducting information-gathering to pre-qualifying opportunities through phone, social and email contact. You will be generating outbound qualified opportunities for the Regional or International sales teams. This role is predominately focused on generating a pipeline for the Benelux & Nordic region.

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

• Identifying, prospecting, and penetrating new business accounts to achieve pipeline and conversion goals.
• Updating lead and prospect activity in salesforce and other sales engagement tools to ensure KPI attainment.
• Collaborating in a business-to-business sales environment to position our technology solutions to a varied audience.
• Generating qualified opportunities for the sales teams and nurturing top of funnel leads to facilitate sales opportunities.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have outbound prospecting experience or be able to demonstrate relevant, equivalent sales experience.
• Demonstrate understanding of the full sales cycle.
• Have experience identifying business needs and objectives through information-gathering to pre-qualify opportunities.
• Be comfortable speaking with decision makers, via various mediums (phone, email, social, and video).
• Have experience with Microsoft Office, Salesloft, Zoominfo or Salesforce.com.
• Enjoy working in a diverse team with a desire to grow in the organisation.
• Be fluent in Dutch or Swedish and English

You may be encouraged to be in the London office occasionally to attend sales meetings and marketing events.

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.