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.
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What We Do
Stella McCartney is a luxury lifestyle brand that was launched under the designer’s name in 2001. It emboldens confident femininity with elevated yet effortless, conscious fashion. The brand is committed to being an ethical and modern company, believing it is responsible for the resources it uses and the impact it has on the environment. It is therefore constantly innovating new ways to become more sustainable, from designing to store practices and product manufacturing. As a lifelong vegetarian, Stella McCartney never uses any leather, feathers, fur or skins in any products for both ethical and environmental reasons – pioneering a movement for the use of alternative materials. Supporting regenerative agriculture and circularity, the brand is embracing new business models that will transform how clothes are sourced, produced, sold, shared, repaired and reused, promoting long-lasting products with extended use to reduce environmental impact. Today, Stella McCartney spans women’s ready to wear, unisex capsules, kids’ clothing, accessories, swimwear, lingerie, a performance wear collaboration with adidas, STELLA skincare and more – with 48 directly owned stores and 21 franchise stores across New York City, London, Paris, Milan, Tokyo, Shanghai and Beijing. Our collections are now sold in 77 nations through 863 specialty shops and department stores, and ship to 100 countries via online.
