Innovation Strategy Consultant

ING Group Strategy and Innovation (GS&I) is looking for a Senior Innovation Strategy Consultant.

ING Bank is a global financial institution of Dutch origin offering banking services. The purpose of ING Bank is empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and business. ING Bank’s 52,000 employees offer retail and commercial banking services to customers in over 40 countries.

The GS&I department reports directly to the CEO of ING Bank and is composed of 3 complementary teams: (i) Group Innovation, (ii) Group Strategy Consulting, and (iii) Group Corporate Development. Each team has a specific scope, yet actively and continuously collaborates with each other through strategic insights in their core areas and leverages their key capabilities when needed by the other teams.

The role of the department is to advance ING’s strategy of Making the Difference by being the strategic advisors to the Management Board Banking (MBB) and Senior Management, in topics related to general strategy and disruptive innovation strategies. Its innovation objectives are to 1) prepare ING for industry transforming trends, 2) create growth engines and 3) translate emerging technologies into bite-sized use-cases.  

Group Innovation is dedicated to innovation exploration, validation of innovative solutions and development of these in close collaboration with business stakeholders. Group Innovation consists of a Strategy Consulting & Expertise team and a Development & Deployment team.

What will you be doing?

As a Senior Innovation Strategy Consultant, reporting to an Innovation Project Lead and working under the direction of the Global Head of Innovation, your responsibilities include:

• Working in interdisciplinary project teams to explore, validate and develop innovative solutions in line with the innovation objectives under the direction of an Innovation Project Lead
• Responsible and accountable for key project management activities
• Collaborating closely with the Expertise and Development and Deployment teams
• Promoting INGs innovation culture (e.g. by leveraging a cross-area collaboration with Tech Studios, ING Factory and other areas dedicated to bottom-up innovation)
• Proposing to the Board, with regular cadence, a set of concrete applications stemming from the latest innovation trends identified. Concrete applications shall include a full-fledged business case of the initiative and a detailed estimate of financial and human resources and technical capabilities/skills required to develop the initiative  
• Collaborating with business areas across the bank to build consensus around feasibility, desirability and strategic fit of use cases to propose to the Board

Profile:

• Master's degree in finance, economics, engineering, or related field
• 4 to 6 years of work experience as a (strategy) consultant
• Proven project leadership and team management skills
• Proven communication / influencing skills with the ability to work at all levels, including C-level Executives
• Excellent analytical skills (e.g. modelling in Excel) with a strong attention to detail
• Clear knowledge depth and content expertise in one or more financial services topics
• Deep innovation knowledge base, including methodologies, trends, benchmarks and applications in financial services industry
• Strong "business sense" combined with the ability to research new topics to develop insights and drive actionable results
• Ability to think out-of-the box
• Must be fluent in English

We offer you:

• A position within a strong team, in an international financial company
• Exposure to a variety of business challenges and opportunities
• The position is based at ING's headquarters in Amsterdam, but provides the opportunity to work on projects across ING's global locations
• Exposure to the most senior management of the bank (e.g. Board level)
• A very competitive salary, 27 days of leave per year, good training opportunities, a solid pension and a positive work life balance

How to apply

During the application in Workday, please upload your CV and motivation letter where you describe:

Your stakeholder management capabilities Your experience in developing business cases and in detailing implementation plans Your experience in financial services related innovation