Fractional Sage CPO Chief Product Officer Service

Sage challenges rarely come from missing features. They come from unclear ownership, competing priorities and no single view of how Sage should evolve to support finance, operations and the wider business.

The Fractional Sage CPO Service from Cogent2 provides senior, part time product leadership for organisations running Sage as a core ERP or finance platform. This role owns the product vision for Sage and connected systems, ensuring configuration, enhancements and change are driven by business outcomes rather than reactive requests.

It is designed for businesses where Sage is business critical, but where no one owns ERP product direction end to end, and where backlogs, workarounds and manual processes have grown over time.

Cogent2’s Fractional Sage CPOs work inside the business, partnering closely with leadership and delivery teams. Alongside senior product leadership, you gain access to a joined-up technical and integration team that can execute and refine what is defined at a product level.

When to hire a Fractional Sage CPO

This service is particularly well suited to organisations that:

• Run Sage as a core ERP or finance system

• Have growing backlogs of requests and enhancements

• Struggle to prioritise Sage change effectively

• Lack clear ownership of ERP product direction

• Need senior product leadership on a part time basis

Hiring a Fractional Sage CPO brings clarity, focus and accountability to ERP evolution.

What the service delivers

Cogent2 Fractional Sage CPOs operate at a senior product leadership level with a strong commercial mindset.

This typically includes:

• Acting as a Fractional and Part Time Sage CPO

• Owning the product vision for Sage and connected systems

• Defining roadmaps aligned to finance and operational needs

• Prioritising backlogs based on business value and risk

• Aligning stakeholders around clear product decisions

• Acting as the single owner of Sage product outcomes

Because Cogent2 combines product leadership with delivery capability, decisions turn into delivered improvements.

Sage product strategy and roadmap ownership

Sage delivers most value when treated as a product, not a project.

The Fractional Sage CPO Service focuses on:

• Defining how Sage should support the business long term

• Translating operational and financial needs into clear priorities

• Preventing reactive configuration and backlog sprawl

• Improving visibility of what is being built and why

• Ensuring Sage evolves in a controlled, value-led way

The emphasis is long-term product thinking grounded in delivery reality.

Governance, prioritisation and value control

ERP backlogs quickly become unmanageable without ownership.

Cogent2 Fractional Sage CPOs help by:

• Establishing clear prioritisation frameworks

• Balancing finance, operations and reporting requirements

• Ensuring change delivers measurable business value

• Reducing low-impact or unnecessary work

• Improving confidence in product decision making

This keeps Sage focused and effective.

Integration and ecosystem product oversight

Sage rarely operates alone.

Cogent2 Fractional Sage CPOs:

• Own the product view of integrations and data flows

• Ensure connected systems support the Sage roadmap

• Reduce duplication and conflicting functionality

• Improve consistency across the wider tech ecosystem

• Align integration priorities with business outcomes

Product ownership extends beyond the ERP itself.

Cross-functional product leadership

Sage touches multiple departments.

Cogent2 Fractional Sage CPOs work closely with:

• Finance and accounting leadership

• Operations and fulfilment teams

• Ecommerce and trading stakeholders

• Technology and integration specialists

This ensures Sage product decisions reflect how the business actually operates.

Programme support and change stabilisation

Fractional Sage CPOs are often engaged during periods of complexity.

This can include:

• Supporting Sage optimisation or reconfiguration phases

• Bringing order to fragmented backlogs

• Improving confidence ahead of major business change

• Reducing friction between teams and priorities

• Protecting operational stability during evolution

Cogent2’s joined-up delivery capability allows change to move forward with control.

Ongoing advisory and trusted product leadership

Many clients retain this role as an ongoing advisory relationship.

This can include:

• Acting as a sounding board for ERP product decisions

• Reviewing proposals before investment is committed

• Supporting hiring and capability planning

• Helping leadership teams avoid costly Sage mistakes

This model provides executive-level product thinking without building a permanent function.

The Cogent2 Difference

Cogent2 works alongside Sage and best-in-class platforms so our Fractional CPOs can focus entirely on product leadership and value delivery. We do not sell software. We take ownership of how Sage evolves within the wider tech ecosystem.

By combining Fractional Sage CPO leadership with a joined-up technical team, Cogent2 removes the gap between product intent and delivered ERP outcomes.

Own Sage as a product, not a backlog

ERP evolution fails when ownership is unclear.

Hire a Sage CPO from Cogent2 on a Part Time, Fractional basis to bring structure, focus and confidence to your Sage product direction.