Intern - Sustainability Consultant

In your role as a Sustainability Consultant Intern within the CoE Customer Insights & Sustainability in Global Retail, you will provide advice and support for the ESG strategy across three retail segments: Private Individuals (PI), Business Banking (BB), and Private Banking & Wealth Management (PB&WM) across ING’s retail markets.

The team

The CoE Customer Insights & Sustainability is part of the Global Retail organization and reports directly to the Head of Retail Banking. The team collaborates closely with other departments such as Global Sustainability, Retail Strategy, Retail Finance, and Global Business Banking.

With 32 million active customers across Europe, Australia, and Turkey, and a mortgage portfolio of €430 billion, INGs size and scope position us to significantly impact the global transition to a low-carbon economy and a sustainable future. Our aim as CoE Sustainability is to seamlessly embed ESG into our business-as-usual practices, aligning our operations with our ESG ambitions.

Our ambition focuses on environmental impact across four areas:

• Net Zero Housing: Develop and standardize mortgage pathways to Net Zero.
• Financial Health: Solidify financial health measurement methodology and increase communication on the topic.
• Sustainable Finance Business Banking: Refresh Business Banking ESG Strategy.
• Sustainable Assets under Management: Set up measurement and KPIs for Assets under Management.

Roles and responsibilities

As an intern, your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the development of strategy in collaboration with retail segments.
• Driving the establishment and consistent measurement of ESG initiatives across retail markets.
• Coordinating cross-country ESG initiatives.
• Developing and promoting a sustainability culture across the retail organization.
• Understanding technology, regulation, and industry best practices.

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

Educational Background: Bachelor's or Master's degree in progress in Sustainability, Environmental Science, Business, Finance, or a related field. Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite. Experience: Previous experience or internships in sustainability, ESG, or related fields is a plus.

Attributes: Passion for sustainability, ability to work in a team, and a proactive and self-motivated attitude.

Rewards and benefits

This is a great opportunity to train with highly skilled people who are experts in their field. You’ll do a lot and learn a lot – not only about your specialist area and the bank, but also about yourself and whether this type of environment is right for you.

You’ll also benefit from:

• Internship allowance of 700 EUR based on 36 hours work week

• Your own work laptop

• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

During the duration of your internship at ING, it is mandatory to be enrolled at a Dutch university (or EU-university for EU passport holders).

Questions?

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About our internships

Every year, more than 350 students join our internship program. While there are no guarantees about your future, many of our former interns move into a permanent role or onto our International Talent Programme (traineeship).

Whatever happens, an internship at ING is the ideal opportunity to meet a wide variety of people, to build up your own network, and to learn about many different aspects of banking – put simply, it’s a great start to your career.