We continue to strive towards achieving our company vision: To be the business software company that everyone recommends.

To achieve our vision, we’re committed to connecting with our customers, to understand their business, their wants and their needs.

This means we recognise each customer as an individual and work with them to help find ways to make running their business more simple, using our software and services.

To achieve our vision, we live by five guiding principles that influence the way in which we work, every day, as well help guide us when making decisions. They are:

• Simplicity
• Agility
• Innovation
• Trust
• Integrity

Our guiding principles help us approach what we do consistently and help us adopt the right approach for our people and our customers.

Our continued success is made possible by the achievements of our people.

Operating locally, it’s through our people that we are able to understand the needs of our customers and to develop products and services appropriate for local markets.

We are committed to the continued development of our people with investment in training and development.

Our success is driven by the skills, knowledge and capability of our people. We take the development of our people very seriously and are committed to training and development.

We make sure that everyone at Sage has an opportunity to discuss their own development needs and career progression with their manager. This helps us ensure that talent is identified and nurtured.

We believe in empowering our people to reach their potential. We do this by providing our people with learning and development opportunities to develop a wide range of skills that include leadership development, training workshops, coaching and mentoring and e-learning - to name a few.

In addition to internal and external learning and development programmes, we also offer our people the opportunity to apply for personal funding to undertake professional qualifications and training.

We reward our people fairly and consistently and ensure that there is as much transparency as possible in our pay and benefits policies.

We offer our people benefit packages based around their roles. We pay a base salary at or around the market median and reward exceptional performance with additional remuneration, such as commission, bonus schemes or other incentives.

Above all, we strive for fairness and consistency in the way we reward our people, wherever they work and whatever they do.

Our work-life balance policies include:

• Enhanced maternity benefit with the option to take up to a year off
• Paternity and parental leave
• Adoptive leave to the same level as maternity leave
• Childcare voucher scheme
• A part-time working policy that supports part-time working hours whenever practically possible. Our policy ensures that our part-time workers are able to develop their career in parallel with their full-time colleagues
• Sharesave scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Early retirement scheme
• Emergency and compassionate leave
• 25 days holiday in addition to bank holidays

We are committed to ensuring everybody receives the same treatment, at all times and in every aspect of our recruitment, training and development.

Both internal and external applicants will be considered on individual ability regardless of factors such as gender, age, colour, creed, race, ethnic origin, disability, marital status, religion or belief, trade union membership or sexual preference and orientation.