Sustainability Intern

Working at Stella McCartney is a truly rewarding experience. As a luxury fashion company with a strong ethical standpoint we are leaders and innovators in our industry. We are looking for a motivated and well organized student to join our Sustainability Team based in Milan, as a Sustainability Intern. The role offers an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in corporate sustainability practices, with specific focus on traceability, social compliance, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions accounting. You will support the team in maintaining and developing key sustainability initiatives, ensuring data accuracy and contributing to the company’s broader ESG commitments. Key Responsibilities •Support in keeping updated the traceability platform used by the department for supplier engagement and social audits coordination. •Support in the accounting and analysis of data for the 2025 GHG emissions inventory, to monitoring of progress towards company carbon reduction targets. •Assist in preparing and reviewing data required for regulatory and voluntary reporting (e.g. SECR, CSRD, SBTi). •Provide ongoing assistance to the Italian Sustainability Department in ad-hoc activities and projects. •Support the preparation of materials for sustainability training sessions, awareness campaigns, and stakeholder engagement initiatives. Your Talent • Currently enrolled in or recently graduated in a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Sustainability, Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Economics, International Relations, human rights, or a related field. • Strong interest in sustainability topics, with particular focus on traceability, supply chain transparency, and environmental impact. • Proactive attitude, willingness to learn, and ability to work collaboratively in a team. • Good analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to work accurately with data. • Excellent organizational skills and respect for internal deadlines • Fluent both Italian and English (written and spoken); • Good knowledge of Microsoft Office package, in particular Excel and PowerPoint. We welcome people with disabilities and endeavour to make reasonable adjustments, if you do require such adjustments please let us know within 48 hours of your interview. At Stella McCartney, we like to be bold. For us this means challenging ourselves and the wider industry in which we operate. As part of our commitments to inclusive fashion, we have an ambitious strategy to put diversity, equity and inclusion at the centre of everything we do. Our starting point is to create a workplace where different voices are respected, heard and empowered in equal measure regardless of factors such as culture and backgrounds, and to influence and disrupt fashion and other industries by providing opportunities for global diverse talent to shine. If you want to join us but cannot see a vacancy that matches your expertise or your ambition right now, we would love to hear from you anyway! Stella McCartney is bold. Our mission is to bring conscience to the industry through our shared values and activist non-conformity. We are committed to make every action count; whether we are leading the way in sustainability or continuing to blur the lines through genderless collections that celebrate our free-thinking individuality, we are accountable for the impact that we have on planet earth and its people. Though our mission is progressive and changes the way the fashion industry works, we remain rooted by our family mindset and connected by a shared trust that inspires inclusivity as well as ground-breaking ideas. We celebrate the life of every member of our global tribe, from the next-gen changemakers pushing us forward to the female icons that have been the heart of our inspiration since 2001. Read more about our brand history here