Sustainability Expertise & Implementation Specialist – SSG

About SSG

The Sustainable Solutions Group (SSG) serves as ING Wholesale Bankings central sustainability engine. Our mission is to accelerate the flow of capital toward our clients sustainability transitions and the sectors they operate in.

SSG is structured around four core pillars: Sector-Agnostic Coverage Sector-Specific Coverage Sustainability Expertise & Implementation and System Change Accelerator.

We are looking for a SSG Sustainability Expertise & Implementation (SSG E&I) Specialist to join the newly established SSG E&I Team!

Role Overview

We are looking for a Sustainability Expertise & Implementation Specialist to join the newly established SSG E&I Team. While the team is in its early stages and currently small it forms an integral part of the broader SSG organisation. This role reports directly to the Head of SSG Expertise & Implementation you will provide strategic operational and coordination support to help ensure the successful development and delivery of the SSG mission.

Key responsibilities include:

• Support strategy and sharpening focus: translating strategic ambitions into clear priorities structuring efforts and ensuring alignment with INGs long-term sustainability goals
• Stay close to the business: connecting with sector developments sustainable deal teams and client needs to ensure the SSG strategic themes Client Climate Engagement Terra and Financing the Transition remain grounded in real-world relevance
• Coordinate what matters: managing incoming requests including regulatory disclosures external commitments internal business needs and innovation opportunities ensuring timely and consistent responses
• Build tools that enable: developing reusable templates short-form video formats and dashboards that make sustainability easier to understand and apply across the organisation
• Connect and enable: working across Wholesale Banking Global Sustainability ESG Risk Finance Tech Legal and various Tribes to streamline efforts and support cross-team collaboration
• Challenge and improve: refining ideas pressure-testing approaches and helping shape the future of SSG
• Turn insight into impact: supporting the development of the SSG KPI Dashboard integrating internal data sources and external intelligence to generate insights that guide strategic steering and client engagement

Your profile

You are a structured problem-solver with a strong sense of purpose. You combine a strategic mindset with the ability to execute and you navigate complexity in a pragmatic and collaborative way. You thrive in a high-paced environment and dealing with a wide range of topics and stakeholders.

You anticipate rather than react. You proactively connect insights across teams and data keeping focus on what matters. You confidently challenge and refine ideas to deliver on INGs sustainability goals and you seek digital and AI solutions to scale our impact.

What You Bring

• Bachelors degree in Business Administration Finance Environmental Studies or related
• 68 years of experience in sustainability ESG strategy or transformation within financial services
• Strong project and stakeholder management skills with the ability to coordinate across functions and drive alignment
• A sharp analytical mindset with fluency in data interpretation dashboarding and performance tracking
• Clear and compelling communication skills able to distill complex topics and engage diverse audiences
• A collaborative and pragmatic approach with cross-functional agility and confidence to challenge constructively but with the ability to work independently take ownership and influence across teams
• A proactive attitude: you anticipate connect and clarify helping ING focus on what matters most

Why ING

At ING we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that encourages supports and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. We believe in empowering our people driving innovation and making a positive impact on society. If you are ready to take on a strategic creative and high-impact role that helps shape INGs sustainability journey we would love to hear from you.

Rewards & benefits

We want to make sure that its possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions here:

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• 36 or 40 hour workweek
• Individual leave: 242 individual holiday days based on 36 hr workweek
• Diversity leave: 3 days per year (15 paid 15 unpaid)
• CSR days: up to 2 days per year to actively engage in society by volunteering
• 13th month salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS) 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• Mobility card
• Attractive pension scheme
• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

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Please note multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.

About us

With 60000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of whats possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customers interests at heart Do you want to be surrounded by progressive inspiring diverse and supportive colleagues Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us and apply today!