INTERNSHIP - Portfolio Management

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic Portfolio Management intern to join our Portfolio Management Team inside ING´s Transformation Office, starting November 2026

The responsibility of this team is to enable that key bank objectives are achieved, and the organization works in the same direction aligning strategy and operation and our way of working is agile methodology.

Please note that only candidates who can provide a valid internship convention with a university will be considered.

Your key responsibilities:
As a Portfolio Management intern you will:

- You will foster a culture of collaboration with tribes and other CoEs: challenging the projects to ensure value creation for the client, alignment with ING’s strategy and simplicity by design both on technical and business approach.

- You will ensure consistency in methodology across different initiatives, products and tribes, in terms of metrics and definitions.

- Together with your team you advise and drive the change in the organization via an end-to-end view on the full portfolio.

- Work with senior management to establish, prioritise and manage the portfolio of initiatives and provide transparency to enable decision making.

- Translate concepts into tangible execution and know how to achieve goals in a large complex organisation. A key aspect is to build and maintain relationships with stakeholders and to act strategically.

- Provide structure to the organization backlog, organize, aggregate and present the information through different dashboards and reports to give clarity and facilitate decision taking at different levels.

What are we looking for?

- A colleague who wants to learn how to achieve goals in a large complex organization; you can build and maintain relationships with your stakeholders; you act strategically; and you are able to adapt concepts into tangible execution.

- Interest in learning how to work with complex programmes. You will learn how to solve problems that are impacting the progress of the programme. Experience in implementing change in highly regulated environments is a distinct advantage.

- An eye for detail and an analytical way of thinking. Ability to communicate with all levels of the organization, particularly at senior management level.

- Ability to persuade people and to turn resistance into cooperation.

- Results oriented with an ability to find ways of solving programme challenges.

- Good knowledge of Office package, in special ability to build and work with complex excel files to manage large amount of data.

- A consulting mind-set, including an ability to think of and discuss structural solutions.

- Ongoing experience on a master’s or bachelor's degree. It is very valuable having some previous working experience.

- Prior experience or knowledge of Agile WoW organization and standards are strongly preferred.

- Have strong analytical skills and take decisions based on data and facts.

- Be a team player, stimulate cross-team interactions and alignment between people, Tribes, Squads.

- Be creative and a pro-active out-of-the box thinker who likes to work in a multidisciplinary team in an agile environment.

What do we offer?

The time you spend at work, the challenges you face or the lessons you get are very important, but… What about your personal life? At ING we want your work to fulfill you in every way, and that is why we offer flexible schedule and 100% flexible e-working.

We redefine banking. What about you?
There has never been a more interesting time to work at ING. We’re on a journey that’s centered around our customers, powered by technology and driven by smart, determined people. Our customers feel our people are empowering them to stay a step ahead in life and in business. We’re proud of that!