Regional Vice President, LATAM- Remote

<p><strong>Would you like the opportunity to work in a high-impact role directly contributing to Akamai's growth?</strong></p> <p><strong>Are you passionate about solving customer challenges and building and developing exceptional sales teams?</strong></p> <p><strong>Join our Sales Leadership team!</strong></p> <p>Our leadership team has a passion for bringing our customers market-leading technology that solves their business challenges. We partner with the world's largest brands to enable fast, reliable and secure digital experiences. We are a team of visionary leaders who are energized by growing our business.</p> <p><strong>Lead and develop the sales strategy</strong></p> <p>In this role, you will develop, oversee, and execute our go-to-market strategy. Collaborating with executive-level customers and cross-functional teams. You will drive innovative solutions that boost revenue. You will have the opportunity to directly contribute to the region's growth and long-term business success.</p> <p>As a Regional Vice President, you will be responsible for:</p> <ul> <li>Developing and implementing go-to-market plans to drive revenue, retention, and growth of existing customers</li> <li>Serving as the leader internally and externally for the LATAM region.</li> <li>Leading and developing a high performing sales team to achieve goals.</li> <li>Developing executive level customer relationships that support positive business outcomes.</li> <li>Cultivating a metric-based sales measurement approach that enables forecast accuracy and data driven decisions.</li> <li>Partnering across teams to drive innovation, customer success, and appropriate relationship approaches for all customers' segments.</li> <li>Collaborating with Channel leadership to optimize market coverage, sales efficiency, and capacity expansion.</li> <li>Working closely with global leadership on strategic projects influencing LATAM and global sales performance.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Do what you love</strong></p> <p>To be successful in this role you will:</p> <ul> <li>15&amp;#43; years of sales experience in the cloud and/or security industry, with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.</li> <li>Have proven success driving growth strategies and building trusted relationships with enterprise technology leaders and key decision-makers across customers and prospects.</li> <li>Have experience leading and developing high performing teams, for both direct and indirect sales.</li> <li>Have the ability to foresee trends, market shifts, and integrate customer feedback for lasting business success.</li> <li>Have planning, financial and analytical skills with operational excellence.</li> <li>Have experience in sales territories administration, planning and forecasting sales, in a multi-country, multi-product line region.</li> <li>Be highly collaborative with the ability to manage, influence and achieve alignment across different interests,</li> <li>Have experience interacting, presenting to, and influencing executives.</li> <li>Be fluent in English and Spanish.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Work in a way that works for you</strong></p> <p>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. 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