Business Agility & Execution Enablement Lead

M&T Bank

. Assess complex strategic initiatives to identify systemic barriers to effective planning, decision-making, coordination, and delivery .

Posted 11/3/2026full-timeUnited StatesSenior💰 $107,500 - $179,100 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Agile coaching, business agility, and organizational effectiveness to enhance execution and decision-making across complex strategic initiatives. Proven ability to facilitate cross-functional collaboration and implement continuous improvement practices that drive measurable outcomes.

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Agile CoachingEnterprise TransformationProgram ExecutionStakeholder ManagementContinuous Improvement

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Hard Skills

Agile DeliveryLean PracticesSystems ThinkingExecution Effectiveness EvaluationStrategic Initiative Assessment

Soft Skills

Excellent Communication SkillsExcellent Facilitation SkillsCoachingInfluencingProblem-Solving

Industry Keywords

Organizational EffectivenessCross-Functional EngagementDecision-MakingPlanningDelivery Predictability

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Assess complex strategic initiatives to identify systemic barriers to effective planning, decision-making, coordination, and delivery
Identify root causes behind ineffective handoffs, late engagement, unclear decision-making, unresolved dependencies, and avoidable rework
Use observations, delivery insights, and data to identify opportunities to improve execution
Partner with PMO leads, RTEs, initiative leaders, and functional partners to design and test improvements to ways of working
Improve flow, cross-functional engagement, decision-making, planning, and delivery predictability
Establish measures to evaluate whether interventions improve execution effectiveness
Partner with initiative leaders and functional teams to improve cross-functional capability engagement throughout planning and execution
Enable earlier engagement of product, service design, change management, technology, operations, risk and control, and program delivery partners
Identify friction across functions and help teams establish more effective ways of working
Coach leaders and teams to adopt and sustain effective execution practices
Lead enablement interventions through implementation and transition to accountable initiative or functional owners
Establish practical routines, tools, and practices that teams can sustain independently
Capture learning and translate successful approaches into practices applicable across strategic initiatives
Apply Agile coaching, business agility, organizational effectiveness, and continuous improvement practices to make initiatives more adaptive, predictable, and outcome-focused

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 6 years’ relevant work experience, or in lieu of a degree, a combined minimum of 10 years’ education and relevant work experience, including a minimum of 4 years’ relevant agile work experience
Minimum of 4 years' relevant agile work experience
Excellent communication skills
Excellent facilitation skills
Experience in enterprise transformation, Agile delivery, business agility, organizational effectiveness, program execution, or related disciplines
Experience supporting complex strategic initiatives involving multiple business and technology functions
Demonstrated ability to diagnose systemic execution challenges and translate them into practical improvements
Strong understanding of Agile, Lean, systems thinking, continuous improvement, and organizational effectiveness practices
Strong facilitation, coaching, influencing, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills
Experience using qualitative and quantitative insights to evaluate execution effectiveness and guide improvement