Sustainability Consultant Business Banking

As our new Sustainability Consultant you will work closely with Business Banking to lead and drive the integration and implementation of ING’s Global Sustainability team’s three key topics- climate, nature and human rights in ING’s Business Banking business.

As a senior member of the team, you will be responsible for 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 meet 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 are 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 Global Sustainability Department

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, Business Banking 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

• Work with key actors within and related to ING’s Business Banking teams to put into practice ING’s sustainability strategy and commitments
• Help develop the strategy, key deliverables and roadmap for action, for Business Banking with the right stakeholders within the business line and related to it (for example ESG Risk, Finance) for key deliverables across the 4 identified pillars- Terra, Sustainable Finance, ESG Risk Management and Disclosures
• Understand the regional differences in Business Banking and strive to find ways to create a global standards, frameworks and guidelines to ensure there is consistency and they contribute meaningfully to ING’s global goals and commitments
• Drive and lead deliverables/workstreams in the implementation/integration team
• Understand and 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 aware of and be upskilled to 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.
• Lead 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.