Equal Opportunity

ING's global view

ING views diversity predominantly as a business imperative. Having operations all over the world, ING needs to reflect its very diverse client base to be more sensitive to their needs and to be able to best adapt to their wishes. We promote a greater understanding of diversity to create an environment wherein everyone has the opportunity to fully participate in achieving business and personal success and is valued for his or her distinctiveness.

ING understands diversity as the need to form diverse teams throughout the organization and to attract employees with a wide range of backgrounds and points of view. But diversity is more than hiring people with a diverse background. It's about creating an inclusive culture, acknowledging and respecting differences. ING's management is committed to promoting this. Diversity can create an atmosphere that is exciting, energizing and intellectually stimulating. ING believes this can lead to better business decisions and innovation. In the end, diversity can create a better company for the good of shareholders, employees and customers alike.

Within the U.S.

Further, here in the U.S., we are proud to note that we aggressively enforce our harassment and antidiscrimination workplace policies. And we provide ongoing diversity training to our managers that covers new focus areas such as sexual orientation and gender expression in the workplace.

ING is an equal opportunity employer. For more information on positions with ING, please visit our careers page.

Suppliers

ING deals with its business partners according to a set of high ethical standards and has strict procurement policies on child labor, environmental issues, health and safety regulations and supplier diversity.

We are firmly committed to providing opportunities for equal access to all qualified minority and womenowned enterprises (M/WBEs) wishing to do business with ING. In addition, ING is committed to providing opportunities for equal access to all certified Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) owned enterprises. Doing so enhances our relationships with current customers while also improving ING's ability to attract and retain new business within and outside of target markets.

ING is proud to provide opportunities to qualifying businesses in our efforts toward reaching a goal of 5% of controllable spend within 5 years.

Procurement

Procurement staff has to comply with the ING Procurement Code of Conduct as well as the Business Principles that all staff follow. This code prohibits the acceptance of personal gifts or benefits in any form, requires confidentiality with respect to quotations and proposals from suppliers and sets strict boundaries for contacts and relations with suppliers. Procurement staff must sign the code every year to remind them of its importance.

Our Reciprocity Policy

Many of ING’s suppliers are also clients of ING. Our reciprocity policy states that when a customer or potential customer wants to become a supplier, this company will be assessed only on the basis of price and quality and not on its customer status.