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Sales Development Representative

Akamai Technologies
Full-time
Remote
United States
$61,000 - $127,000 USD yearly
Sales

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