Senior Account Executive, Events & Experiential

Verve is a Live Event and Brand Experience Agency that uses the power of live experience to win the hearts and minds of consumer and business audiences. Established in 1991, Verve is headquartered in Dublin with offices in London, Amsterdam and Singapore and as part of The Opus Group, we have partners throughout Europe and across the globe. We have a team of over 100 full time award winning professionals spanning creative, digital, events, activation, entertainment and sponsorship departments.

It takes a special type of person to work for us, but you can expect a really rewarding experience if you do. If you would like to be a part of our award-winning team here at Verve and work with some of the World’s best loved brands, we would love to hear from you. We are always on the lookout for outstanding, highly creative people so if you have the experience, the dedication and a sense of fun, we want to hear from you.

Committed to excellence, you will be able to handle multiple deadlines, display excellent interpersonal skills and be a team player who motivates others. And naturally, you will remain calm when time is of the essence and the pressure is on! 

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The Role:

• Supporting Account Managers and Account Directors across a variety of projects
• Building strong relationships with clients, liaising with them on a day-to-day basis at middle to junior level, depending on the client's management structure, being the main point of contact, taking briefs and ensuring management of expectations and offerings
• Budget management across individual projects and contributing to budgets for senior members of the team, ensuring budgets can be built autonomously and to a high standard
• Looking after the day-to-day administrative detail, including compilation and presentation of written documents and administration of the budgeting system
• Managing supplier relationships, ensuring that costs are being scrutinised and negotiated
• Having a clear understanding of what success looks like for our clients and creating and reviewing response/proposal accordingly
• Managing projects from conception through to completion
• Sourcing venues including rate negotiation
• Collating information for monitoring and evaluation and managing monitoring services
• Liaison with other client agencies (i.e. PR, advertising, sales promotion, design)
• Regular updates and liaison with other team members working on the client account
• Any other duties relating to your role as required by the business
• Representing Verve Live Agency and its clients in a professional manner at all times

The Person:

• An accomplished Event enthusiast at a Senior Account Executive level with an exciting approach and good understanding of sport and the event business. You have strong events experience having already worked with an events agency for at least 1 year.
• You’ll be dynamic and have a flair for creativity, working well as part of a team and under pressure. Your attention to detail will be second to none and you’re always striving to meet, or even beat deadlines when taking client service to the next level.
• You act with a sense of urgency to get things done and show initiative, you contribute constructively and when you don’t know the answer you say so and then make it your business to find out.
• You roll your sleeves up and get involved in everything you’re asked to do – be that for your clients, or for the agency more generally.
• You have an inquisitive mind – you’re curious about the industry, the agency and our clients.
• You’re ambitious for yourself and the industry, and you soak up your colleagues’ knowledge and experience at every turn.

Sustainability

We’ve been championing sustainability in our events and brand experience with ISO 20121 certification for a solid decade. We added ISO 14001 in 2023 and we proudly became B Corp certified across all three of our offices in 2024. 

B Corp represents our commitment to using our agency as a force for good in the world across 5 pillars: environment, community, employees, customers and governance. Both B Corp and ISO require regular audits to maintain certification. 

Great Place To Work

Verve has always believed that exceptional work is rooted in an exceptional workplace. We proudly became Great Place to Work® certified in September 2025. This certification is based entirely on employee feedback and a review of our culture, affirming the environment we’ve built at Verve, grounded in trust, inclusion and genuine care for our people.

Diversity & Equal Opportunities

We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy. Celebrating our inclusive and diverse culture is integral to Verve. We know that for our business to thrive and to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities. Together, we continue to build a culture that encourages, supports and empowers our employees.