Fractional Sage Development Director Service

Sage delivery challenges rarely come from a single report or configuration change. They arise when multiple teams, partners and workstreams lose alignment, priorities conflict and no one owns delivery at a senior, end-to-end level.

The Fractional Sage Development Director Service from Cogent2 provides senior, part time leadership for organisations running Sage as a core finance or ERP platform, where delivery spans configuration, custom development, reporting, integrations and optimisation. This role operates above individual teams, focusing on alignment, delivery governance and ensuring Sage investment delivers accuracy, control and operational value.

It is designed for businesses with scale or complexity, where Sage Heads of Development or Managers exist, but lack a single senior owner to coordinate priorities, manage risk and maintain delivery momentum.

Cogent2’s Fractional Sage Development Directors work inside the organisation, partnering closely with finance, operations and technology leadership. Alongside senior oversight, you gain access to a joined-up technical and integration team that can execute, refine and stabilise delivery where required.

When to hire a Fractional Sage Development Director

This service is particularly well suited to organisations that:

• Run Sage as their core finance or ERP system

• Have parallel Sage development, reporting and integration workstreams

• Experience delivery conflicts, delays or unclear prioritisation

• Rely on partners without strong internal delivery ownership

• Need senior Sage delivery leadership on a part time basis

Hiring a Fractional Sage Development Director brings clarity, coordination and accountability across all Sage delivery activity.

What the service delivers

Cogent2 Fractional Sage Development Directors operate at a senior delivery level with a strong execution mindset.

This typically includes:

• Acting as a Fractional and Part Time Sage Development Director

• Owning delivery governance across Sage teams and suppliers

• Aligning Sage roadmaps to finance, compliance and operational priorities

• Managing dependencies, sequencing and delivery risk

• Improving communication between technical teams and business stakeholders

• Supporting Heads of Development and Sage Managers

Because Cogent2 combines leadership with delivery capability, direction turns into action.

Sage-wide delivery coordination and execution

Sage delivery often spans finance, reporting, compliance and operational integrations.

The Fractional Sage Development Director Service focuses on ensuring all Sage-related delivery moves in the same direction.

This includes:

• Coordinating releases across configuration, development and integrations

• Reducing bottlenecks and conflicting priorities

• Improving leadership-level visibility of progress and risk

• Supporting safe delivery around month-end, quarter-end and year-end close

• Ensuring Sage investment delivers measurable operational outcomes

The emphasis is joined-up execution, not isolated delivery.

Standards, governance and delivery discipline

As Sage estates grow, governance becomes critical.

Cogent2 Fractional Sage Development Directors establish:

• Clear delivery frameworks and decision-making processes

• Consistent standards across internal teams and partners

• Practical reporting for leadership teams

• Strong ownership of delivery outcomes

This reduces risk, noise and wasted effort.

Cross-functional finance and ERP leadership

Sage sits at the heart of finance and compliance.

Cogent2 Fractional Sage Development Directors work closely with:

• Finance and reporting teams

• Operations and fulfilment

• Ecommerce and trading teams

• Technology and integration teams

This ensures Sage delivery supports how the organisation actually operates.

Programme support and delivery stabilisation

Fractional Sage Development Directors are often engaged when programmes become complex or delivery confidence drops.

This can include:

• Stabilising large or multi-stream Sage delivery programmes

• Supporting Sage optimisation or compliance-driven change

• Improving delivery ahead of financial close

• Reducing reliance on reactive decision making

• Protecting data accuracy and reporting integrity during change

Cogent2’s joined-up delivery capability allows issues to be addressed decisively.

Ongoing leadership and continuity

Many clients retain this role as ongoing senior oversight rather than a short engagement.

This can include:

• Regular executive-level Sage delivery reviews

• Cover during leadership transition or growth

• Supporting long-term Sage delivery planning

• Acting as a consistent senior delivery authority

This model provides leadership without adding permanent overhead.

The Cogent2 Difference

Cogent2 works alongside Sage and connected platforms so our Fractional Development Directors can focus entirely on execution, coordination and delivery outcomes. We do not sell software. We take ownership of how Sage delivery supports the wider business.

By combining Fractional Sage Development Director leadership with a joined-up technical team, Cogent2 removes the gap between finance system ambition and reliable delivery.

Strengthen Sage delivery leadership

Finance system delivery fails when ownership is fragmented.

Hire a Sage Development Director from Cogent2 on a Part Time, Fractional basis to bring clarity, coordination and accountability to your Sage delivery landscape.