Head of Corporate Real Estate & Workplace Strategy

Lead the Future of Workplace & Real Estate Strategy at M&T Bank

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) across 28 U.S. states and 5 countries.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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, analytics, and emerging technologies to create innovative, future‑ready workplaces.
• Oversee a diverse and strategically important real‑estate footprint—balancing cost efficiency, sustainability, risk, flexibility, and human‑centered design.
• 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.
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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: MBA or relevant advanced degree.
• Preferred: Experience managing large, complex, or global real‑estate portfolios.

Location: Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Pay range: $157,500.00 - $292,500.00 Annual (USD)

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. M&T Bank Corporation has policies and procedures in place to promote a drug‑free workplace.