This role is four days onsite at our Seneca One Buffalo, NY location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week

Overview:

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from planning through execution, including defining scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder roles. 

• Bring structure to ambiguous business problems by clarifying priorities, organizing workstreams, identifying key decisions, and establishing a practical path forward. 

• Analyze data, updates, and business context to identify trends, risks, gaps, and non-obvious insights that inform decision-making. 

• Develop executive-ready materials including presentations, briefings, project updates, recommendations, and decision support for senior leaders. 

• Partner with stakeholders across business lines and functions to gather requirements, align priorities, manage expectations, and drive initiatives forward. 

• Monitor project performance and execution risk including scope, schedule, budget, dependencies, issues, change controls, and corrective actions. 

• Exercise sound judgment and influence by determining when to escalate, when to independently resolve issues, and when to respectfully challenge assumptions or direction. 

• Support strategic transformation and operational improvement through process enhancement, change management, reporting, and execution support. 

• Maintain adherence to risk, regulatory, audit, compliance, and internal control standards in accordance with M&T Bank requirements. 

  Promote an environment that supports belonging and reflects M&T Bank brand. 

• Maintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.

• Complete other related duties as assigned.

Core Competencies:

• Operating in ambiguity 
• Structured thinking and problem solving 
• Strategic analysis and data-driven storytelling 
• Executive communication and presentation development 
• Stakeholder management and influence 
• Judgment, prioritization, and escalation discipline 
• Cross-functional project and initiative management 

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 4 years’ proven project management experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 8 years’ higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 4 years’ project management experience.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience managing complex projects, initiatives, or workstreams involving multiple stakeholders or functional areas. 
• Experience translating complex information into clear insights, recommendations, presentations, or executive-level updates.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint. 
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, manage ambiguity, influence stakeholders, and bring structure to evolving priorities. 

Preferred Qualifications:

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