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Would you like to work in a dynamic sales-growth role?

Do you enjoy facilitating the early stages of sales cycles?

Join our exciting sales development team

Our Sales Development Team partners with Akamai's sales and marketing teams to guide the early stages of the sales cycle. SDR's primarily assist with new customer acquisition by generating qualified pipeline that converts to booked deals,

Become a trusted advisor to customers

Be responsible for generating qualified sales opportunities. Through combination of outbound prospecting, marketing lead follow up, monitoring inbound chat and telephony solutions. Using a mix of phone, email and social strategies. This role is focused on generating pipeline in Italy.

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

• Identifying, prospecting and penetrating prospect and customer accounts to achieve opportunity and pipeline targets.
• Setting qualified introductory meetings for aligned account executives while nurturing early stage pipeline.
• Collaborating with sales and marketing colleagues in region to optimize demand generation and pipeline development.
• Leveraging industry-leading tools, including Salesforce, Salesloft, Drift, LinkedIn and more to maximize productivity.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have entry- level related industry work experience or be able to demonstrate relevant, equivalent sales experience.
• Have experience identifying business needs through information-gathering to pre-qualify opportunities.
• Be comfortable speaking with decision makers, including C-level via various mediums (social, email, phone and video).
• Have experience with Microsoft Office, Salesforce, and Salesloft or similar sales productivity tools.
• Enjoy working in a diverse team with a desire to grow in the organisation.
• Have deep verbal and written communications skills; fluent in Italian and English

Work in a way that works for you

FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.

Learn what makes Akamai a great place to work

We power and protect life online, by solving the toughest challenges, together.

At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.

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.

About us

Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.

Join us

Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company with a global reach and exciting services and clients? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will energize and inspire you!

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