Internship: AI for Sustainability – Building an ESG Market Entry Assessment Agent

Company Description

A sustainable, profitable, and enjoyable future for dairy farmers by combining robotization, engineering, and farming expertise. This is what we believe in.

This journey began over 75 years ago with the dream of two brothers in Maassluis. Since then, we have become an innovative global leader in automated systems for dairy farmers worldwide. With 2,500 specialized professionals, we continuously work on new agricultural revolutions. We still do this from our Campus in Maassluis, the building with the highest achievable sustainability standards in the Netherlands, while also operating around the world. Our goal is to ensure that dairy farming remains attractive for future generations.

Job Description

How can we make sure ESG risks and opportunities are at the core of our international expansion decisions? And what role can AI play in this? During this internship, you will work at the intersection of Sustainability, ESG, Commercial Strategy, and Artificial Intelligence. Your challenge is to design, build, and validate an AI-supported ESG Market Entry Assessment Agent that helps Lely evaluate the ESG impacts, risks, and opportunities of entering new geographical markets.

You will translate an existing ESG market-analysis methodology into a practical AI workflow and create a prototype that supports experts in making well-informed decisions. By combining sustainability knowledge with AI capabilities, you will contribute to a project that can directly influence how Lely evaluates future growth opportunities around the world.

Your responsibilities include:

• Translating the existing ESG market-analysis methodology into agent instructions and workflows
• Structuring and validating relevant internal and external ESG knowledge sources
• Building and configuring the ESG Market Analysis Agent in Copilot Studio
• Developing IRO scoring, materiality assessment, and target-at-risk logic
• Connecting country-specific findings to the Lely ESG framework
• Testing and validating AI-generated assessments against existing expert assessments

At the end of your internship, you will deliver a validated prototype ESG Market Analysis Agent that can assess a defined country and market-entry scenario and produce a source-based Lely IRO assessment, including:

• Materiality scoring;
• ESG target exposure analysis;
• Mitigation and adaptation recommendations;
• A market-entry recommendation;
• Recommendations for further implementation.