SantanderESG & Sustainability Jobs

Spanish multinational commercial bank and financial services company, one of the largest banks in the world

Santander is one of the world's largest retail and commercial banks, operating across Europe and the Americas with roughly 185,000 employees and 176 million customers. Its core business spans personal banking, business lending, payments, and capital markets activity through its Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) division.

Why it matters

Santander has a stated focus on supporting the transition to a sustainable economy, which translates into concrete financing activity: structured finance for energy infrastructure, tax equity for clean energy projects, and venture investment in climate and deep technology. Its CIB division originates and structures deals that move capital into energy transition assets - renewable infrastructure, grid projects, and emerging climate technology. The bank also publishes ESG reporting and tracks sustainability-linked metrics alongside its financial results.

For sustainability professionals, Santander represents a large financial institution where climate-relevant work sits inside deal teams, strategy functions, and dedicated sustainability roles - rather than in a standalone green business. The scale of its lending and investment activity means the sustainability function operates with significant real-world capital implications.

Of the 250 roles we have screened from Santander, 6 are currently classified as sustainability roles and 244 fell outside that scope. See the climate hiring signal for the full breakdown and methodology.

At a glance

Open roles: 6
ESG focus: SustainabilityGreen financeRenewable energyReporting
Headquarters: Boadilla del Monte, Spain
Hiring in: United States · Madrid, Spain · Mexico · Lisbon, Portugal
Seniority: Entry-level 1 · Mid 1 · Senior 4

Climate hiring signal

Transparent facts from the roles we have tracked - not a rating.

active sustainability roles

244

other roles filtered out this cycle

Of the 250 roles we screened from Santander, 2% were classified as sustainability roles.

ESG roles posted, last 6 months

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How this is measured

We fetch every open role a company publishes and classify each one with an automated keyword-and-context filter. Roles that match sustainability, climate, environmental, or governance criteria are kept and counted as active; the rest are filtered out. This is one transparent signal of how much of a company's current hiring is sustainability-focused - it is not a verdict on the company, and it reflects only public job postings we have tracked, not the company's full operations.

The classifier is automated and imperfect: it can occasionally mis-classify an individual role, so treat small differences as noise. We only show this signal when we have screened enough roles for the numbers to be meaningful.

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