ING

Do you a have a passion for event management and do you want to help ING create human connections all around the world? We at ING offer you an opportunity to do an internship in our global events & experiences team, where you will be working on creating experiences for clients and other stakeholders every day.

The team

ING is a global financial institution with a strong European base, offering banking services. We draw on our experience and expertise, our commitment to excellent service and our global scale to meet the needs of a broad customer base, comprising individuals, families, small businesses, large corporations, institutions, and governments. Our customers are at the heart of what we do.

The events & experiences team is part of the Global Communications, Brand & MarCom department and is based at the ING Cedar office in Amsterdam Zuid-Oost. The high-level events we organise vary from internal webinars, internal brand activation to global conferences, global financial exhibitions and large leadership events, and anything in between.

For all these events we develop event concepts, we understand the content, we have an advisory role and are responsible for logistics (e.g. scouting suitable locations, align with third party suppliers for audio visual arrangements, decoration, entertainment, security, external speakers, write detailed minute to minute scripts, deal with the financials etc.). Next to this, we are responsible for the invitation process and evaluation process.

Roles and responsibilities

During this internship you will play a very important role in the preparation and organisation of several events. Just a glance of your activities:

• You will have an active part in different event project teams and will have dedicated tasks,
• You will be part of the execution team on site for several events
• You will be setting up and maintaining registration websites for our events (don’t worry you don’t need to programme it, we have an easy tool for it),
• You will keep track on the registrations of our delegates,
• You will help us to make sure our scripts are up to date with the latest details,
• You will be responsible for the general department mailbox, handling incoming emails,
• You will manage our ING event goodies store

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.

We are looking for an enthusiastic student, who has a curious mind and has hospitality at heart.

• You are an HBO or WO student, studying for roles in the field of Events, Sponsoring, Marketing, Communication, (international) Business- or Leisure management.
• You are passionate about events, and preferably already have some experience in hospitality and/or event planning.
• You have an open mindset, you are flexible, pro-active and hands on
• You are able to take some responsibility and think in solutions
• You always strive for the best, and don't settle for half-measures
• You have good communication skills and a good command of the Dutch and English language (in writing and speaking)
• You can work with the MS Office package (Word, Excel & PowerPoint)
• You have an eye for detail and details are making you happy.

If you recognise yourself in the profile above, we would like to hear from you! And who knows, you may soon be in our office, and we will be busy with the final preparations for another great event.

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:

• An internship of 5-6 months
• Internship allowance of 700 EUR per month for a 36-hour 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
• A great working environment; global and dynamic with a fun bunch of professionals
• The opportunity to learn from highly experienced event managers
• With joint efforts, we will maximise your learning experience and make it the best time

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?

Contact the recruiter attached to the advertisement. Want to apply directly? Please upload your CV and motivation letter by clicking the ‘Apply’ button.

Do you have questions? Please do not hesitate to reach out to us!

Annet Dekker – event manager – annet.dekker@ing.com

Paula Lindenaar – event manager – paula.lindenaar@ing.com

Important information on the internship

This is a working/learning internship, unfortunately there is no room for a graduating project.

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.