Sales Excellence Graduate - Madrid
Sage · Madrid, Spain
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Nombre de vacante Sales Excellence Graduate - Madrid
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.
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 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.
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Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to present ideas clearly and persuasively.
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Commercial awareness and confidence working with data, including pipeline metrics and the financial drivers of a business.
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The ability to build trusted relationships with customers, colleagues, and partners, adapting your communication style to different audiences.
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A proactive, resilient, and results-driven mindset, with curiosity about how businesses work and the confidence to keep improving.
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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
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Apply online with your CV
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Complete screening, cognitive testing and video interview
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If successful at video interview stage, you will be invited to attend a final stage assessment
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Successful candidates will join us in October 2026
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 earlycareersadjustments@sage.com For all other enquiries, please contact us at earlycareers@Sage.com
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:
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Flexible benefits: exchange part of your salary and make tax savings on meal and transport vouchers, childcare, and training.
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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.
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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.
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Annual leave: 23 working days of vacation, 5 paid days per year for volunteering
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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.
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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.
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Medical and dental insurance: Fully funded medical and dental insurance.
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Learning and Development: Free premium subscription to external learning platforms.