Head of Corporate Real Estate & Workplace Strategy

Head of Corporate Real Estate & Workplace Strategy page is loaded## Head of Corporate Real Estate & Workplace Strategyremote type: Onsite Positionlocations: Buffalo, NYtime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R83808**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* 1,200 properties (35% owned / 65% leased)* ~8.8MM sq. ft. portfolio (56% owned / 44% leased)* Locations across 28 U.S. states and 5 countriesWorkplace strategy has become a critical driver of organizational performance—impacting talent attraction, productivity, culture, and financial outcomes. In this role, you will:* Reimagine the future of work at enterprise scale—aligning space, technology, and human-centered design.* Modernize a significant and high-visibility real estate portfolio.* Build and elevate a strategic function that sets the long-term operating model for how M&T works.* Influence decisions at the intersection of people, technology, and real estate across the enterprise.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:* Define and lead enterprise-wide location strategy, portfolio planning, and real estate decisioning.* Modernize space planning and workplace design to elevate employee experience, collaboration, productivity, and flexibility.* Leverage data, utilization of analytics, and emerging technologies to create innovative, future‐ready workplaces.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:* Enterprise site selection, capital project planning, and lease strategy.* Long-range real estate forecasting and portfolio design.* Ensuring the portfolio supports enterprise growth, customer access, and employee engagement.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:* Build and lead a dynamic organization spanning workplace strategy, space planning, analytics, real estate operations, and project management.* Partner across HR, Finance, IT, Security, Risk, and business leadership to anchor decisions in data and strategic alignment.* Guide risk-informed decisions that steward millions in operational and capital investments.The team you shape will be grounded in innovation, data fluency, sustainability, customer-centric design, and operational excellence.**Ideal candidates will have:*** 12+ years of leadership experience in corporate real estate, workplace strategy, facilities management, or portfolio management.* A proven ability to build enterprise level‐ real estate strategies and modern workplace models.* Deep experience transforming workplace and space planning in hybrid, flexible, or distributed environments.* Strong financial and analytical capability (forecasting, scenario planning, ROI modeling, utilization analytics).* Expertise in workplace design, utilization technology, and emerging workplace tools.* Exceptional communication, executive presence, and the ability to influence across senior leadership.**Preferred qualifications:*** MBA or relevant advanced degree.* Experience managing large, complex, or global real estate portfolios.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.#LI-RS1M&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.# **Location**Buffalo, New York, United States of AmericaGreat 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**. M&T Bank Corporation is a financial holding company headquartered in Buffalo, New York. M&T’s affiliates offer advice, guidance, expertise and solutions across the entire financial spectrum, combining M&T Bank’s traditional banking services with the wealth management and institutional capabilities offered by Wilmington Trust. M&T Bank has a network of over 1,000 branches and 2,200 ATMs that span 12 states from Maine to Virginia and Washington, D.C. For more than 165 years, M&T has strived to take an active role in our communities and build long-lasting relationships with our customers. We are a bank for communities—combining the capabilities of a large bank with the care of a locally focused institution.
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