Would you like the opportunity to work in a high-impact role directly contributing to Akamai's growth?

Are you passionate about solving customer challenges and developing exceptional sales teams?

Join our Sales Leadership team!

We work with the world's leading companies in every major industry. We make life better for billions of people, billions of times a day. We collaborate with customers and prospects to align 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

In this role, you will be responsible for developing, overseeing and executing the go-to-market strategy. Identifying new opportunities and driving expansion in EMEA contributing to overall company growth.

As a Regional Vice President for Cloud Compute Sales in EMEA, you will be responsible for:

• Creating and executing go-to market plans to grow revenue and a leadership position in our target verticals
• Leading a high performing specialist sales team to achieve regional goals
• Building a successful partner and alliance strategy with sales.
• Developing compelling executive level customer relationships that support positive business outcomes
• Cultivating a metric-based sales measurement approach that enables forecast accuracy and data driven decisions
• Collaborating across the organization to champion customer success and innovation.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have relevant experience working in sales in the cloud compute space and familiar with the ecosystem
• Have a successful track record of overachievement in sales leadership and with business growth
• Be able to anticipate future trends, new market transitions, and incorporate customer feedback to enable business success
• Demonstrate a track record of developing and executing growth strategies. Nurture extensive relationships with decision makers
• Have great planning, financial and analytical skills with operational excellence
• Have experience leading, managing and developing high performing teams
• Be a highly collaborative team-player with the ability to manage, influence and achieve alignment across different interests
• Enjoy building versus just operating

Build your career at Akamai

Our ability to shape digital life today relies on developing exceptional people like you. The kind that can turn impossible into possible. We’re doing everything we can to make Akamai a great place to work. A place where you can learn, grow and have a meaningful impact.

With our company moving so fast, it’s important that you’re able to build new skills, explore new roles, and try out different opportunities. There are so many different ways to build your career at Akamai, and we want to support you as much as possible. We have all kinds of development opportunities available, from programs such as GROW and Mentoring, to internal events like the APEX Expo and tools such as Linkedin Learning, all to help you expand your knowledge and experience here.

Learn more

Not sure if this job is the right match for you or want to learn more about the job before you apply? Schedule a 15-minute exploratory call with the Recruiter and they would be happy to share more details.