Sage
Marketing Graduate Programme - London
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Please note that this is a hybrid role requiring 3 days per week in the office.
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—because 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.
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What will you be involved in?
Are you creative, curious about audiences and digital trends, and passionate about telling stories that genuinely engage people? This graduate opportunity is designed to help you kick-start your career with hands-on experience, structured support and meaningful work from day one.
As a Graduate for the Small & Accountants BU within the Brand Strategy & Creative team, you will join a passionate and ambitious team working across brand strategy, creative development, content, social and campaign production. You will gain practical experience supporting campaigns, coordinating creative work, connecting with market and customer insights, helping bring ideas to life across channels, and learning how brand, creative, content, social and marketing teams work together across the UK. You will be supported by a dedicated manager throughout the programme, with structured onboarding, regular coaching and feedback, mentoring from experienced marketing professionals, and a personalised development plan to help you build confidence, capability and a strong portfolio of work.
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During the programme, you will support our campaign managers with a range of activities including:
- Helping execute marketing campaigns across paid, organic, social, web, email, events and partner channels, including campaign delivery for major brand moments.
- Coordinating campaign assets, keeping project timelines moving and helping manage trackers, Workfront tasks, approvals and team administration.
- Supporting influencer and social activations, including briefing support, social copy checks, content capture and event-related social moments.
- Researching industry trends, customer needs, audience behaviours and creative opportunities.
- Working with other teams across content, social, performance marketing, sponsorship, PR, agencies and regional teams to deliver integrated campaigns.
- Helping to pull together agency and internal team briefs for new assets and campaigns.
- Consolidating creative feedback for campaign materials, video and social assets, and helping teams move work through approvals.
- Supporting creative reviews by sense-checking copy, campaign messaging, digital content updates and brand consistency.
- Supporting campaign performance reporting, identifying what is working and where teams can improve.
- Supporting the creation of campaign playbooks, guidelines, briefing materials and editable resources that help other teams work more effectively.
This is a graduate programme, so you do not need to have all the skills from day one. We are looking for someone educated to degree level, ideally in a relevant field such as marketing, communications, journalism, media, digital, business, creative industries or a related subject. Training, support and coaching will be provided throughout the programme.
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- A genuine interest in marketing campaigns, brand, creative, digital trends and audience behaviour.
- Creative curiosity and the confidence to contribute ideas.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Good attention to detail, especially when reviewing copy, assets and campaign materials.
- Organisation, proactivity and the ability to manage deadlines across multiple tasks.
- A collaborative mindset and the confidence to work with people across different teams, markets and levels.
- An interest in storytelling, brand, customers and how content can influence action.
- Comfort working with data, performance results and audience insights, or a willingness to learn.
- A practical, can-do approach to problem solving and project coordination.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office tools, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- An interest in using AI and emerging tools responsibly to support creativity, planning, efficiency and analysis.
What you can expect from the process:
- Apply online with your CV
- Complete screening and video interview (You will receive a link to complete a video interview within 1 week of applying)
- If successful at video interview stage, you will be invited to attend an assessment centre.
- Successful candidates will join us in October 2026.
Here at Sage, we are committed to inclusivity for all, so if there any adjustments that would help you thrive in the application process or beyond, please reach out to us at earlycareers@sage.com
Benefits of working at Sage include
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays from day one
- Paid time to learn (5 learning days a year)
- Paid time to give back (5 volunteering days a year)
- Private healthcare, digital GP & wellbeing support
- Competitive pension with Sage contributions
- Paid parental leave, inclusive from day one
- Work from abroad for up to 10 weeks a year
- Discounts on tech, travel, gyms and more
- Cycle to Work and EV schemes
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