Orchestration Director

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Job Title

Orchestration Director

Job Description

Be the force that turns strategy into reality

At Sage, strategy only matters if it lands. As Orchestration Director, you'll play a critical role in ensuring our bold growth ambitions translate into measurable business outcomes. This is a highly visible leadership role at the heart of Sage's most important transformation programmes - bringing clarity, pace, and executional excellence to initiatives that shape our future.

You'll operate as the central coordination point for strategic delivery within the Growth function, orchestrating complex programmes across the UKIA region and selected global initiatives such as incorporating Agentic AI across Sage products. Working across functions, markets, and leadership teams, you'll ensure alignment, accountability, and confidence in delivery.

Key Responsibilities

What you'll be doing

Strategic Orchestration & Delivery
• Lead the end-to-end orchestration of Sage's most critical growth programmes, turning strategic intent into executional reality.
• Drive excellence, consistency, and pace in delivery across multiple, interconnected initiatives.
• Ensure programmes are aligned to business priorities and deliver clear, measurable impact (revenue, customer value, and time-to-market).
• Directly lead selected UKIA strategic initiatives, embedding strong delivery before transitioning ownership to permanent business leaders.

Leadership & Team Management
• Lead, develop, and inspire a small, high-performing team of Orchestration Managers.
• Build a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement.
• Act as a trusted coach and thought leader, raising delivery capability across the organisation.
• Provide interim leadership on strategic initiatives to ensure continuity and momentum.

Governance, Visibility & Reporting
• Own the operational cadence for key programmes, ensuring clear governance and leadership confidence.
• Create and maintain scorecards, dashboards, and reporting that surface progress, risks, dependencies, and outcomes.
• Ensure leaders have the insight they need to make timely, informed decisions.

Cross-Functional Alignment
• Partner with senior stakeholders across Product Marketing, Sales, Enablement, Finance, and Communications.
• Influence priorities and decisions through structured communication, data-led insight, and pragmatic problem-solving.
• Break down silos across regions and functions to drive shared accountability and progress.

Continuous Improvement & Standardisation
• Design and embed scalable delivery frameworks, tools, and operating rhythms.
• Simplify complexity and enable repeatable, high-quality execution through Agile and modern delivery practices.

What you'll bring
• Deep experience in programme and delivery management, operating at scale in complex, matrixed organisations.
• A proven ability to turn strategy into execution, delivering outcomes through disciplined orchestration.
• Strong operational experience using Agile and modern delivery methodologies to drive pace and clarity.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder-influencing skills, including at senior leadership level.
• A strong growth mindset, with a track record of coaching teams to embrace challenge, learn fast, and continuously improve.
• Confidence leading through ambiguity, simplifying complexity, and delivering results in fast-moving environments.

Why join Sage?
At Sage, we're building the future of accounting, payroll, and business management - powered by data, AI, and deep customer understanding. This role gives you the opportunity to sit at the intersection of strategy, execution, and leadership, shaping how Sage delivers growth at scale.
If you thrive on complexity, care deeply about outcomes, and want to leave a lasting impact on how a global business executes - we'd love to hear from you.

Benefits? We have plenty...
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• Generous bonuses and pension scheme: Up to 8% matched pension contribution plus 2% top-up by Sage.
• 25 days of paid annual leave with the option to buy up to another 5 days • 8 bank holiday days
• Paid 5 days yearly to volunteer through our Sage Foundation
• 50% income protection
• Holiday buy + sell

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Function

Routes to Revenue

Country

United Kingdom

Office Location

London

Work Place type

Hybrid

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Working at Sage means you're supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future of AI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks, like entering invoices and generating reports, and more time pursuing their ambitions.

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