Sustainability Expertise & Implementation Specialist – SSG
About SSG
The Sustainable Solutions Group (SSG) serves as ING Wholesale Banking’s 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 ING’s 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 ING’s sustainability goals, and you seek digital and AI solutions to scale our impact.
What You Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Environmental Studies, or related
- 6–8 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 ING’s sustainability journey, we would love to hear from you.
Rewards & benefits
We want to make sure that it’s 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: 24+2 individual holiday days based on 36 hr workweek
- Diversity leave: 3 days per year (1,5 paid, 1,5 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 60,000 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 what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s 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!
