Senior Sustainability Consultant

You will be part of ING’s Global Sustainability Integration and Implementation team and contribute to the of our three key topics- climate, nature and human rights in ING’s wholesale and retail banking businesses and key functions like finance and operations. You will play a key role in diverse workstreams to ensure that ING’s sustainability strategy comes to life in its everyday decision making and strategic priorities. Additionally, you will help to ensure that we are properly integrating sustainability in relevant functions to meeting our commitments and a.o. regulatory disclosure requirements. Your priority stakeholders are internal (teams like front office, risk, finance, communications, IT, operations, compliance, legal). Your external stakeholders can be diverse, from clients, to sustainability experts, peers, investors and regulators. Integration and implementation require persistence and a can-do attitude with the gravitas to draw others to join us and make sustainability their own.

Does this sound like you? Then read on to know more.

Our Purpose

There is no denying that one of the biggest challenges for society is sustainability, in all its forms. Climate change threatens both the planet and its people. People may struggle with inequality or a lack of basic human rights. As the challenges increase, there’s a growing sense of urgency that governments and businesses should step in and help tackle them. The world is changing, and banking needs to change with it.

ING aims to put sustainability at the heart of what we do, defining new ways of doing business where planet and people are just as important as economic growth. It’s about making progress together, step by step. As a global bank with billions flowing through our books, we have an opportunity to make an impact for the better. Doing so by bringing aspects of climate, nature and protecting human rights into our dialogue with clients and financing decisions.

ING wants to be a pioneer in defining new ways to do business. We want to be a banking leader in building a sustainable future for our company, our customers, society and the environment.

The Team

Our Global Sustainability Department, reports directly to the CEO, and oversees the Sustainability Direction of ING Group globally, including strategies to support the sustainability journeys of our customers, our community, and our colleagues. Our team of sustainability consultants integrate sustainability within our banking operations worldwide, across both Retail and Wholesale Banking markets, and cover advice and programme management across the full range of ESG objectives. ING has been recognised as one of the most sustainable banks in the world for our contributions to progressing action on key global challenges such as climate change and the impacts of technology on society.

The team is committed to setting the standard for ING’s sustainability performance, and raising the bar for our peers, the sectors we’re active in and other stakeholders. We collaborate with all ING business lines, domains and countries. We encourage and help educate our colleagues  and actively engage with external  stakeholders to create a ripple effect on sustainability impact.

We are team of 30 people with diverse perspectives stemming from a.o. nationalities, gender, work experience, education and age.

Role and Responsibilities

• Contribute to deliverables/workstreams in the implementation/integration team
• Prepare documentation, support meeting reporting requirements, prepare key control frameworks
• Prepare responses to ad-hoc requests from stakeholders (e.g. risk, finance, management, auditors)
• Build effective working relationships and recognition with stakeholders that foster a proactive and consultative partnership
• Contribute actively in strategic, tactical and ad-hoc change projects to set clear requirements on data definitions and implementation
• Develop the understanding on how to connect the dots between various initiatives and workstreams to assess how sustainability can be prioritized where necessary and implemented optimally
• Support stakeholders and others to be upskilled and make sustainability part of their BaU and actively focus on “what is next”
• Manage dependencies, impediments for programme  deliverables and keep stakeholders up to date on progress through steercos and other engagements.
• Contribute to internal and external working groups where ING works together with other organisations to create coalitions for action
• Support the shaping and influencing of (upcoming) standards and regulation (e.g. deliver input for consultations and/or share views on impacts thereof internally).
• Represent ING internally and externally for relevant themes and/or activities.