In short

As ABN AMRO, we aim to create a better world for generations to come. A positive transition towards a more equal and sustainable world. Within our Strategy and Innovation department, we are continuously generating, testing, and building new initiatives that help us to make this happen.

Do you want to use your expertise and drive to help our innovation teams to create, design, test, and scale new initiatives? And do you want to help us scale our innovative way of working through the rest of the organization?

We are looking for an enthusiastic innovator, willing to make change happen and wants to be a catalyst of innovation across the company, willing to join us for 3-6 months as an intern.

Your job

We are looking for someone that is an enthusiast about corporate innovation and innovation methodologies. You are curious by heart and always testing and experimenting the best ways to get things done.

Your key activities will be:

• Help with setting up and creating design sprints for different teams within ABN AMRO.
• Promoting them in all ways possible, think of creating graphic designs and videos, sending newsletters, or giving presentations.
• Help with executing these design sprints, workshops, or innovation activities across the bank.
• Help with the further improvement of our process for initiatives within our Innovation Lab.
• And given the nature of the work, we will probably come up a lot of extra, fun activities after we started working

Your working environment

Innovation within a bank?

Thanks to technological, societal, and political trends the world is changing faster than ever. Changes the financial industry is facing are related to cryptocurrencies, cybercrime, upcoming fintech, and many more. ABN AMRO is one of the major banks in The Netherlands. As a bank, we have no choice other than to embrace this change and explore how we can improve and offer new products and services that fit the needs of our customers.

One way we do that as a bank is by building new initiatives in our Innovation Lab within Strategy and Innovation department. We build these initiatives following our DARE innovation methodology, helping them from the exploration stage all the way to a scaled business. However, we believe that innovation should not be limited only to our department, but could and should happen everywhere in the bank. We hope that you are willing to help us with improving our DARE process for our innovation initiatives and help us to make it relevant and spread it across the entire bank.

Your profile

Enough about us, let’s talk about you

• Enthusiast about innovation, and not afraid about innovation within a bank
• Strong in English in writing and speech
• Curious and creative
• Action biased, with a fewer-meetings-more-doing mindset
• You have finished your bachelor’s degree, and you are currently doing your Masters. Ideally from an innovation-related study.

What we offer

• A role allowing you to truly grow, you will do things that are new and exciting
• An environment that allows you to discover how innovation within big organizations really works; spoiler alert – it isn’t all as smooth as in the textbooks
• Fun and hard work, we personally believe that you do your best work when you enjoy what you do. Fun, in combination with working hard.
• A small team and individual guidance, we have a small team to make things happen, consisting of innovation enthusiasts that are optimistic and really want to make change happen. You will truly become part of our team.
• We offer you up to 600 EUR gross (based on 40 hours per week) and the option to work in Amsterdam and multiple ABN AMRO offices across the Netherlands.
• The internship duration is ideally 6 months, and we can discuss starting dates or suggestions        

Interested?

Feel free to reach out to me (jeroen.uwland@nl.abnamro.com) if you have any remaining questions, want to dazzle me with your previous work or your great energy, or share why you think we are the perfect fit.