Job Openings at Sage

• As our Partner Marketing Manager, you'll be responsible for developing and executing regional partner marketing strategies that generate measurable demand, qualified pipeline and revenue. Working closely with Sage's strategic partner ecosystem, Sales teams and wider Marketing functions, you'll create and deliver joint go-to-market programmes that accelerate growth across multiple markets.
• This is a highly commercial role, ideal for someone who thrives on building strategic relationships, influencing stakeholders and turning partner collaboration into measurable business outcomes.
• We have a hybrid working pattern at Sage, colleagues must work in the Johannesburg office 3 days a week and work 2 from home.

Key Responsibilities    

What You'll Be Doing

• Develop and execute a regional partner marketing strategy across South Africa, East Africa and the Middle East.
• Build and strengthen relationships with key strategic partners across the region.
• Create joint marketing plans aligned to commercial objectives, revenue opportunities and growth ambitions.
• Design and deliver integrated lead generation campaigns and programmes that drive qualified pipeline.
• Manage partner marketing investment, MDF and co-marketing budgets to maximise return on investment.
• Partner closely with Sales and Partner Sales teams to align marketing activity with pipeline priorities and market opportunities.
• Establish clear performance measures and use data-driven insights to optimise programmes and demonstrate commercial impact.

What We're Looking For

You'll bring:

• Significant experience in Partner Marketing, Channel Marketing, B2B technology, software or SaaS environments.
• Experience delivering partner marketing programmes across multiple African markets.
• A proven track record of driving partner-generated pipeline and revenue growth.
• Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Experience managing MDF, co-marketing budgets and partner investments.
• A solid understanding of demand generation, marketing funnels and performance measurement.
• A commercial mindset and passion for delivering measurable business outcomes through marketing.

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The role

• You’ll lead the delivery of trusted, timely and meaningful People reporting across Sage, including recurring, ad hoc, leadership and statutory reporting. Acting as the link between business stakeholders, data architecture, governance and analytics teams, you’ll translate complex requirements into scalable reporting solutions, dashboards and self-service capabilities.
• You’ll join the Data Architecture team within Digital Services, which connects business strategy, data governance, technology, analytics and operational delivery. Together, the team ensures People data is accurate, secure, accessible and fit for purpose.
• We have a hybrid working pattern at Sage, colleagues must work in the Johannesburg office 3 days a week and work 2 from home.

Key Responsibilities    

What you’ll be doing

• Define and deliver the roadmap for People reporting and business intelligence.
• Lead the delivery of accurate, timely and reliable global workforce reporting.
• Develop scalable reports, dashboards and self-service analytics capabilities.
• Partner with People leaders, Centres of Excellence and business stakeholders to understand their reporting needs.
• Translate business requirements into effective data and reporting solutions.
• Provide clear, actionable workforce insights that support business decisions.
• Develop and drive the adoption of workforce analytics, KPIs and data products.
• Ensure reporting meets data governance, privacy, quality and assurance standards.
• Maintain the integrity, consistency and trustworthiness of People data.
• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing reporting team.
• Create a culture of collaboration, innovation, continuous improvement and analytical excellence.

What we’re looking for

• Strong business intelligence, analytics and reporting expertise.
• Experience leading and developing a reporting or analytics team.
• Excellent stakeholder-management skills and the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Experience in a business intelligence, data or SQL development role.
• Experience with ETL or ELT development and data integration across multiple source systems.
• Strong reporting and analytics capability, including dashboard development, data modelling and visualisation.
• Hands-on experience using Power BI, SQL, Excel or similar enterprise reporting platforms.
• An understanding of data warehousing technologies, ideally Snowflake.
• Familiarity with data governance tools, such as Collibra, and modern analytics platforms.
• The ability to work independently while collaborating across business and technical teams.