Lead the Future of Workplace & Real Estate Strategy at M&T Bank
This is a unique opportunity to shape how a leading community-focused financial institution designs, delivers, and experiences work. As the Director of Corporate Real Estate & Workplace Strategy, you will define and deliver the future of M&T’s workplace, impacting how thousands of employees collaborate, innovate, and serve our customers every day. You will guide a multi‑year transformation of a real estate portfolio that fuels growth, strengthens culture, defines how our employees work, and deepens our commitment to the communities we serve.
About the Portfolio
Workplace strategy has become a critical driver of organizational performance—impacting talent attraction, productivity, culture, and financial outcomes. In this role, you will:
In this leadership role, you will build and execute a comprehensive strategy that aligns M&T’s real estate footprint with business priorities and workforce trends to evolve customer and employee expectations.
You will:
You will oversee a diverse and strategically important real estate footprint—balancing cost efficiency, sustainability, risk, flexibility, and human-centered design.
Your scope will include:
This role is responsible for creating the tools, processes, and capabilities that define a best-in-class corporate real estate function and team.
You will:
The team you shape will be grounded in innovation, data fluency, sustainability, customer-centric design, and operational excellence.
Ideal candidates will have:
Preferred qualifications:
This is the role for an innovative, strategic leader who wants to define the future of work at M&T Bank—building a best-in-class corporate real estate capability and shaping a portfolio that drives long-term enterprise value while creating workplaces and experiences that strengthen our culture and support the communities we serve.
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M&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $157,500.00 - $292,500.00 Annual (USD). The successful candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, and experience will inform their specific compensation.
Buffalo, New York, United States of America
Great companies have an enduring sense of purpose. At M&T, our purpose is a simple one: make a difference in people’s lives and uplift the communities we serve. Founded in 1856 in Buffalo, NY we are now a top 11 full-service US-based commercial bank with a retail footprint across the east coast and wealth services available nationwide and abroad. As a bank, we offer advice, guidance, expertise, and solutions across the entire financial spectrum that combines M&T’s traditional banking services with the wealth management and institutional capabilities offered by Wilmington Trust. We are a community-minded organization with more than 167 years of experience. We serve customers, community, and colleagues whether they be across the street, across the state or across the country.
As an employer of choice, we are proud to offer competitive benefits ranging from medical and retirement to forty hours of paid volunteer time, each year. Our core values drive the work we do – integrity, ownership, collaboration, curiosity, candor and we seek to further build upon our record of success by bringing in top talent and fresh skill sets while continuing to support the growth and development of all our team members.
M&T Bank is unwavering when it comes to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, ethnicity, sex, gender identity, age, disability, citizenship, pregnancy, veteran status, military status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local laws.
