Technology Business Partner

Technology Business Partner – £95,000 - £105,000 - Permanent

Join us and be part of a mission-driven, independent publisher. You’ll work with a diverse group of people who share a passion for empowering researchers, educators, and institutions to shape the future.

About Sage:

Sage  is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources with a growing range of technologies to enable discovery, access, and engagement. Believing that research and education are critical in shaping society, Sara Miller McCune founded Sage in 1965. Today, we are controlled by a group of trustees charged with maintaining our independence and mission indefinitely.  

Our guaranteed independence means we’re free to: 

• Do more – supporting an equitable academic future, furthering disciplines that drive social change, and helping social and behavioural science make an impact 

• Work together – building lasting relationships, championing diverse perspectives, and co-creating resources to transform teaching and learning 

• Think long-term – experimenting, taking risks, and investing in new ideas 

About our Team:

You’ll join our Delivery Management and Strategy function, a strategic, collaborative team that works at the heart of Sage’s transformation agenda. We collaborate with senior executives across our business units to build technology direction, translate strategy into action, and ensure our investments deliver meaningful value. Our partners come from Product, Architecture, Engineering, Finance, Delivery Management, and the wider Technology leadership community. Together, we develop clarity, alignment, and momentum so that technology becomes a powerful enabler of growth, efficiency, and innovation.

Could you be our new Technology Business Partner? Are you?

• An exceptional communicator with the ability to influence senior leaders through clear, concise, outcome‑focused messaging tailored to both business and technical audiences?

• Experienced in leading transformation within complex, collaborative environments, with a strong track record of shaping direction and driving strategic outcomes?

• Skilled across delivery methodologies, product management approaches, and delivery disciplines, applying them flexibly to suit context and business need?

• Experienced overseeing portfolios, financial planning, service models, and performance measurement, understanding how these elements combine to support effective decision‑making?

• Able to convert technology strategy into practical execution, ensuring alignment to business priorities and delivery of measurable value over time?

• Experienced in applying broad and deep technology knowledge including AI, advanced tools, and emerging practices - to drive modernisation and continuous improvement?

• Highly capable of interpreting complex technical information and reframing it to support understanding, alignment, and decision‑making across the organisation?

• Comfortable navigating fluid, evolving environments, using sound judgement, qualitative insight, and quantitative data to establish clarity, direction, and pace?

Your new role:

As a senior Technology Business Partner, you will serve as the trusted advisor and strategic connector between business leaders and technology delivery. You will translate business strategy into clear, outcome-focused technology priorities, build investment choices, and ensure transformation programmes deliver measurable value. Operating across strategy, portfolio management, and delivery alignment, you will bring coherence, pace, and insight to some of Sage’s most critical initiatives.

• Lead technology partnership for your assigned business pillar, building positive relationships with senior leaders and shaping technology outcomes that directly support strategic goals.

• Translate business direction and emerging challenges into clear technology priorities, investment choices, and multi‑year roadmaps that enable consistent, impact-focused delivery.

• Provide clear, proactive communication across all levels, reframing complex technology options, risks, and trade‑offs into actionable insight for executives and delivery teams.

• Drive the definition, prioritisation, and alignment of initiatives, ensuring they reflect enterprise direction and enable measurable transformation outcomes.

• Own the technology financial investment portfolio for your pillar, leading regular reviews to assess progress, value realisation, risks, and shifting priorities.

• Partner with Architecture, Finance, and Delivery Management to balance demand with capacity, sequencing, and funding, ensuring decisions are grounded in data and strategic impact.

• Lead benefits identification and value monitoring, ensuring transformation programmes deliver tangible improvements in performance, efficiency, and customer experience.

• Coach and mentor colleagues in strategy, commercial thinking, prioritisation, and portfolio management, strengthening capability across the Delivery Management & Strategy group.

Overview of Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with 2 additional floating personal days.

• Hybrid working up to 2 days per week in office and a home working allowance.

• Life assurance, income protection, and travel insurance.

• Private medical cover and access to the company doctor.

• Tuition scheme and support for pursuing professional qualifications, including access to Sage books and journals.

• Variety of snacks and beverages available in the office.

• Healthy lifestyle reimbursement and anniversary trips.

• Access to Company loans (season ticket loan, rental deposit loan, cycle loan).

We’re a Disability Confident Employer (Level 1). If you’d like to apply under this scheme, please let us know in your application.

We’re committed to making our recruitment process accessible and inclusive. If you’d like to request reasonable adjustments, please email   [email protected] . Please note we only accept applications via email if an adjustment has been agreed.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Sage, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team and to sustaining a culture that celebrates diversity, encourages authenticity, and builds a deep sense of belonging. We encourage applications from all members of society irrespective of age, disability, sex or gender identity, sexual orientation, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, or belief as crafting value through diversity is what makes us strong.