{"id":1193776,"url":"https://alion.io/job/mt-bank-corporation-program-manager-executive-operations-2","title":"Program Manager - Executive Operations","company":{"id":4312,"name":"M&T Bank Corporation","domain":"mtb.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/mtb","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":83,"open_postings":61,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.689,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":33,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"staff","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Wilmington, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":92000,"max_usd":187000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":333},"experience_years_min":13,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-24T17:56:45Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-24","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T17:14:41Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":0,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":0},"description":"This role is four days onsite at our Wilmington Center Wilmington, DE location, with the flexibility to work from home one day per week\nOverview:\nLeads cross-functional partners on multiple related projects, executive operations routines, and ongoing strategic initiatives directed toward common enterprise objectives and affecting three or more businesses or functional areas.\nProvides senior-level project management oversight by managing changes to scope, schedule, risks, dependencies, and costs using appropriate verification techniques to maintain accurate plans, support executive decision-making, and facilitate stakeholder acceptance.\nPrimary Responsibilities:\nLead multiple related projects, executive operations routines, and ongoing strategic initiatives impacting three or more businesses or functions. Ensure clear understanding of scope, objectives, priorities, roles, and accountabilities across project teams and senior stakeholders. Partner with constituent project managers and business leaders to monitor cost, schedule, risks, dependencies, and delivery performance.\n\nDevelop integrated project plans, executive operating routines, forecasts, and schedules. Work with stakeholders to define detailed requirements, constraints, assumptions, decision points, and deliverables using structured planning, facilitation, and executive engagement techniques.\n\nEnsure project and operating plans include clear work breakdowns, governance structures, escalation paths, stakeholder communications, risks, resources, budgets, and success measures.\n\nDrive execution of tasks defined in the project plan to achieve project and executive operations goals. Manage budgets, forecasts, governance routines, and delivery progress while monitoring change controls, dependencies, and stakeholder impacts.\n\nMeasure project, program, and operating performance using appropriate tools, metrics, and reporting mechanisms. Identify and quantify variances, recommend corrective actions, prepare executive-ready updates, and communicate risks, issues, decisions, and progress to stakeholders at multiple levels.\n\nImplement approved actions and workarounds required to mitigate project, operational, and executive escalation risks while maintaining alignment to enterprise priorities.\n\nImprove project team performance by building team cohesiveness, leading, mentoring, training, and motivating resources to facilitate cooperation, increase delivery effectiveness, and support strong executive operations discipline. Coordinate shared resources across related initiatives for overall program and enterprise benefit.\n\nUnderstand and adhere to the Company’s risk and regulatory standards, policies, and controls in accordance with the Company’s Risk Appetite. Design, implement, maintain, and enhance internal controls to mitigate risk on an ongoing basis. Identify risk-related issues, prepare escalation materials, and engage appropriate leaders to support timely resolution.\n\nPromote an environment that supports belonging and reflects the M&T Bank brand.\n\nMaintain M&T internal control standards, including timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators as applicable.\n\nComplete other related duties as assigned.\n\nExercise usual authority of a manager concerning staffing, performance appraisals, promotions, salary recommendations, performance management and terminations.\n\nScope of Responsibilities:\nResponsible for coordinated management of multiple related projects, executive operations routines, and ongoing strategic initiatives impacting three or more businesses or functions; responsibility includes all aspects from initiation through close, with added emphasis on executive alignment, governance, issue resolution, and enterprise-level visibility.\nMust be familiar with system scope, project objectives, strategic priorities, and the role and responsibility of each team member and stakeholder group to effectively coordinate team activities, executive communications, and decision-making routines.\nProject Guidelines:\nProject Scope: $7.5 m or more\nTeam Size Range: 40 - 75 FTE\nProject Duration: 18 - 30 months\nProject Size: Multiple high priority projects\nProject Customer: Three or more lines of business or functions\nScope of Change: Moderate changes to business processes, procedures, operating routines, or governance structures\nProject Timeline: Moderately aggressive\nProject Innovation: Moderately defined scope\nProject Benefits: Major\nProject Customization: Major\nNumber of Interfaces: 6 or more\nProject Integration: Internal and External Systems\nSupervisory/ Managerial Responsibilities:\nTypically manages a team ranging from 5 - 15 directly and indirectly and 75 - 125 on a project team or cross-functional operating basis.\n\nEducation and Experience Required:\nBachelor’s degree and a minimum of 9 years’ proven project, program, executive operations, or strategic initiative management experience,\n\nOR in lieu of a degree,\n\nA combined minimum of 13 years’ higher education and/or work experience, including a minimum of 9 years’ proven project, program, executive operations, or strategic initiative management experience.\n\nProficiency with personal computers as well as pertinent software packages.\n\nStrong knowledge of project management methodology, executive governance practices, operating routines, and cross-functional delivery management.\n\nStrong verbal and written communication skills, with demonstrated ability to influence, negotiate, synthesize complex information, and gain consensus across senior stakeholders.\n\nRegularly communicates verbally and in writing with executive management on status, risks, decisions, dependencies, and outcomes of initiatives in a clear, concise, and executive-ready manner.\n\nExcellent problem-solving skills.\n\nAbility to work individually as well as a member of a team.\n\nSelf-motivated, results-driven and well-organized individual.\n\nAbility to handle multiple tasks and work under time constraints in support of various assignments.\n\nAbility to function professionally at many different levels (clients, management and peers).\n\nStrong interpersonal skills necessary to build trusted relationships with business partners, executive stakeholders, and cross-functional teams within and outside the organization.\n\nAbility to build mutual trust and encourage respect; open to diverse points of view.\n\nEducation and Experience Preferred:\nProject Management Professional (PMP) certification.\n\nProgram Management Professional (PgMP) certification.\n\nMaster’s degree.\n\nWe support our team members with generous benefits.\nCompetitive compensation\n\nHealth, welfare, and retirement benefits\n\n401(k) match at 5%\n\nWork-life balance and flexible work arrangements\n\nBanking Officers start with 25 days PTO plus 12 paid holidays\n\n40 hours paid volunteer hours per year\n\nMuch more. For details, see: M&T Benefits Overview\n\nM&T Bank is committed to fair, competitive, and market-informed pay for our employees. The pay range for this position is $118,200.00 - $197,000.00 Annual (USD). 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