Sales Excellence Graduate - Madrid

Sage; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 24.000 - 32.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Calm app access

Healthy Mind Coaches 24/7 counseling

Work from over 40 countries (Work Away

Annual leave 23 days

5 volunteering days per year

Employee stock purchase plan

Medical and dental insurance

Life and disability insurance

Learning & development resources

Descripción de la vacante

Sage’s Graduate Sales Excellence Program offers structured training and development for new graduates. You’ll rotate through CS Foundation, Sales Development, Retention and Renewal, New Customer Acquisition, and Channel/Partner Sales to build a rounded, long-term career in sales or business development.

You’ll learn from experts, connect with peers, and grow a global professional network while benefiting from Sage Foundation volunteering days and a clear path to advancement.

Formación

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the confidence to present ideas clearly.
• Commercial awareness and comfort with data, including pipeline metrics.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with customers, colleagues and partners.

Responsabilidades

• Rotations across CS Foundation to learn customer success fundamentals.
• Sales Development rotation to identify, qualify and engage prospects.
• Retention and Renewal rotation to manage renewals and growth.
• New Customer Acquisition rotation to run discovery and close deals.
• Channel and Partner Sales rotation to enable partners and scale reach.

Conocimientos

Communication skills

Commercial awareness

Data-driven mindset

Customer-facing experience

Educación

Business, Management or Marketing degree

Descripción del empleo

Descripción

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.

What will you be involved in?

At Sage, 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.

Our Graduate Sales Excellence Program 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 organization, developing a rounded understanding of the full customer lifecycle from first contact to long‑term partnership

Responsabilidades principales

During the graduate program, you may 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, realize value, and make decisions about renewal or growth.

• Sales Development

  You will be at the starting point of Sage’s revenue engine, identifying, qualifying, and engaging potential customers. You will learn how to prospect effectively, handle objections confidently, and hand over warm opportunities to the wider sales team. This rotation builds the foundations of a sales career: resilience, curiosity, and the ability to communicate value quickly and clearly.

• Retention and Renewal

  You will work closely with existing customers to ensure they continue to see value in Sage’s solutions and renew their contracts. This rotation focuses on listening, understanding customer needs, and demonstrating long‑term value. You will develop skills in account management, negotiation, and proactive relationship building, learning how to turn a renewal conversation into a growth opportunity.

• New Customer Acquisition

  You will work as part of a team focused on winning net‑new business, taking prospects through the full sales cycle from first conversation to signed contract. You will learn how to run structured discovery conversations, build compelling business cases, present solutions to decision‑makers, and close deals. This is where you will develop your consultative selling skills and commercial instinct.

• Channel and Partner Sales

  You will support Sage’s network of channel partners and resellers, helping them sell Sage solutions more effectively to their own customers. This rotation develops a more strategic perspective on sales, teaching you how to enable others, manage indirect relationships, and think about market reach and commercial impact at scale.

This development program is designed to give you meaningful, hands‑on experience across the full sales organization from day one. With the support and space to learn, ask questions, and grow, you will build the skills, commercial acumen, and confidence needed for a long‑term career in sales or business development.

What are we looking for?

To be eligible for this role, a Business, Management or Marketing degree would be advantageous, however we will consider a degree in any discipline. What matters most is your motivation, your ability to communicate, and your commercial curiosity.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to present ideas clearly and persuasively.
• Commercial awareness and confidence working with data, including pipeline metrics and the financial drivers of a business.
• The ability to build trusted relationships with customers, colleagues, and partners, adapting your communication style to different audiences.
• A proactive, resilient, and results‑driven mindset, with curiosity about how businesses work and the confidence to keep improving.
• An interest in technology, AI tools, and how software can help customers solve real business challenges. Prior customer‑facing, sales, or commercial experience would be advantageous.

What you can expect from the process

Please note that due to the high volume of applications, there may be a delay in our response. We thank you for your patience.

Here at Sage, we are committed to inclusivity for all. If you need adjustments that would support you in the application process, please reach out to us at [e-mail] For all other enquiries, please contact us at [e-mail]

At Sage, we offer you an environment where you can grow professionally without compromising your personal well‑being. Our benefits package is designed to provide stability, flexibility, and balance:

• Flexible benefits:exchange part of your salary and make tax savings on meal and transport vouchers, childcare, and training.
• Well‑being:Free access to the Calm app (for up to 5 users), 24/7 counseling, and emotional support from our Healthy Mind Coaches. We also offer self‑care and parenting resources through the Cleo app.
• Flexible working:flexibility of working one hour in, one hour out, shortened workdays on Fridays and during the summer, and the opportunity to work from over 40 countries for up to 10 weeks per year through our Work Away program.
• Annual leave:23 working days of vacation, 5 paid days per year for volunteering
• Extended leave:7 extra days of maternity leave and 5 extra days of paternity leave, on top of the legal allowance, available after one year of service.
• Financial support:Life and disability insurance, salary advances of up to 3.5 times your net monthly pay, a €300 net marriage bonus, and access to Sage's employee stock purchase plan at a discounted rate.
• Medical and dental insurance: Fully funded medical and dental insurance.
• Learning and Development: Free premium subscription to external learning platforms.