Verve is a Live Event, Sponsorship 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 and Amsterdam. We have a team of over 130 full-time award-winning professionals spanning creative, events, sponsorship, activation, entertainment and digital departments.

We are a multidisciplinary experience agency recognised for creating and delivering world class experiences for many of the biggest global brands. We believe in building long term partnerships with our clients, many of whom have been with us for well over a decade. You will get the opportunity to work across these brands developing high profile, big budget sponsorship and experiential campaigns. You will then have the chance to bring these brands and campaigns to major events, experiences, and festivals.

We’re a professional, dynamic and ambitious company who are number one in our field. We operate in a creative, nimble and robust business sector, and we are searching for people who are of a similar nature.

The Role

We’re looking for a talented Sponsorship Account Executive to join our friendly London team on a permanent basis. As the new Sponsorship Account Executive at Verve, you will join an exciting team working across a number of different sponsorship accounts. The successful candidate will possess a desire to work across sponsorship and partnerships activations. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate strong people management skills and build strategic operational plans with excellent logistics, implementation and evaluation skills, working to deadlines and within budget as well as having day-to-day client contact, you will be responsible for maintaining high levels of client satisfaction including workflow, quality output and financial responsibility.

Key responsibilities

• Ensuring all client projects are delivered on brief, on brand and on budget.
• Working in a team on a number of sponsorship properties (across rights holders, stakeholders and caterers)
• Receiving of briefs and liaising with design team/copywriters to ensure brand consistency across projects
• Working with various stakeholders at senior and junior levels from project brief to completion
• Being part of a team to provide the utmost level of client service
• Liaising with clients at a senior level on a day-to-day basis
• Creating and giving presentations to clients
• Using your skills to push clients, and the agency, creatively and strategically

Ideal Candidate

• Desire to work within the sponsorship, partnerships, or event-led marketing environments
• Strong understanding of integrated marketing, brand positioning, and audience engagement strategies
• Some experience and knowledge of sponsorship activations across sports
• Demonstrated success in building and maintaining relationships
• Commercially minded, with the ability to develop proposals and manage budgets effectively
• Confident communicator with the ability to present ideas persuasively to clients, rights holders and internal teams
• Excellent written communication skills
• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in fast-paced environments
• Strong attention to detail, ensuring high-quality delivery across all projects
• Ability to work cross-functionally with marketing, events, and production teams to deliver cohesive campaigns
• Strategic thinker with the ability to contribute to long-term partnership planning and growth
• Comfortable analysing campaign performance and providing actionable insights and reporting to clients
• Proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to adapt quickly under pressure
• Understanding of creative production processes and the ability to collaborate effectively with creative teams

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.