Sales Excellence Graduate Programme

Job Description At Sage, innovation starts with our people. With over 13,000 colleagues across 40 locations worldwide, supporting over 2 million customers, we’re united by a shared purpose: to transform the way millions of businesses work. As a global leader in AI, finance and HR software, we harness cutting-edge technology and forward-thinking ideas to simplify complexity and drive progress. At Sage, you’ll join a high achieving culture that values creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning.

Together, we’re shaping the future of business software.

Start your career with Sage in the UK and make an impact from day one. Our ethos is simple: to help businesses thrive so they can support their communities and drive economic progress. At Sage, you’ll find a high performing environment where your ideas matter, your growth is encouraged, and your work will add value from day one. Start your journey with us and help shape the future of business across the UK and beyond.

Why join Sage as a graduate?

At Sage, we believe your career should start with opportunity, growth, and purpose. As a graduate, you’ll benefit from structured training and development programs designed to build your skills and confidence from day one. You’ll also have access to Sage Foundation, our global initiative that gives you five paid volunteer days each year to make a positive impact in your community.

You’ll join exceptional teams where you will have the chance to learn from experts, connect with peers, and grow a global professional network. At Sage, we’re committed to helping you shape your future, offering clear career pathways and opportunities to innovate and make a real difference.

What will you be involved in?

Our Graduate Sales Excellence Programme is designed for graduates who are ambitious, commercially curious, and passionate about building relationships and driving business growth. You will experience core areas of our sales organisation, developing a rounded understanding of the full customer lifecycle from first contact to long-term partnership.

During the graduate programme, you will work in two or more of the following teams:

CS Foundation You will start with a foundational rotation in Customer Success, building an understanding of how customers adopt Sage products, realise value, and make decisions about renewal or growth. By the end of this rotation, you will be able to:

Use customer health, adoption, usage, and engagement data to identify churn risks, value opportunities, and expansion signals.

Build clear value stories that connect Sage capability to customer outcomes, including time saved, risk reduced, and efficiency gained.

Support renewal readiness by maintaining accurate CRM data, updating customer status, and contributing structured recommendations.

Run adoption and value check-ins with growing independence, coordinating with Product, Support, or Services to resolve blockers.

Produce a concise Customer Success case example showing how your work protected revenue, improved adoption, or created expansion readiness.

Sales Development You will help identify, qualify, and engage potential customers, learning how to prospect, handle objections, and communicate Sage’s value clearly. This rotation builds the core habits of a successful sales career, including resilience, curiosity, and confident communication.

Retention and Renewal You will work with existing customers to help them continue seeing value from Sage and renew with confidence. This rotation develops your account management, negotiation, and relationship-building skills, while showing how renewal conversations can create growth opportunities.

New Customer Acquisition You will support the team in winning new business, from early discovery through to signed contract. This rotation strengthens your consultative selling skills, commercial judgement, and ability to build clear business cases for customers.

Channel and Partner Sales You will support Sage’s channel partners and resellers, helping them position and sell Sage solutions effectively. This rotation gives you a broader view of sales, partner enablement, and how Sage reaches customers ase note that…