Commerical Manager

WSP • United States,

3d • $83,000 - $126,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

WSP USA is seeking a Commercial Manager to strengthen project performance across the Property & Buildings (P&B) lifecycle from opportunity planning through execution, review, recovery, and closeout. This role partners with business and regional leadership and connects project teams with Operations, Finance, Legal, Strategic Growth, Quality, Health & Safety, and other enabling functions to improve governance, financial performance, risk management, and consistent delivery practices. The role combines portfolio-level leadership with hands-on governance and program implementation. It leads high-risk opportunity and project reviews, establishes scalable processes and tools, builds project management capability, supports organizational change, and provides clear executive insight on delivery priorities and risk exposure.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, geology, construction management, project management, business, finance, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least 5 years of progressive experience in project delivery, project or program management, operations, risk management, quality, commercial management, project coordination or controls, or a related field in professional services or engineering consulting.
• Experience managing multiple projects or initiatives in a fast-paced, changing environment with competing priorities and deadline pressure.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives and influence senior leaders without direct reporting authority.
• Advanced knowledge of project lifecycle governance, project controls, financial management, risk assessment and mitigation, contractual and commercial risk, quality management, and audit or compliance practices.
• Experience facilitating high-risk project or opportunity reviews and communicating decision-ready information to executive audiences.
• Proven ability to create and implement scalable processes, policies, procedures, templates, training, and change-management programs.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including concise executive communications and detailed, audit-defensible documentation.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, organizational, and problem-solving skills with sound judgment on sensitive or high-risk matters.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft 365 applications and ability to work effectively with project financial, workflow, reporting, and dashboard tools.
• Ability to work independently with broad direction, escalate decisions through appropriate governance channels, and travel occasionally as business needs require.

Nice To Haves

• Project or Program Management Professional (PMP) certification, such certified associate in project management (CAPM) or PMP.
• Experience supporting a geographically dispersed, multidisciplinary Property & Buildings or professional services organization.
• Experience with enterprise project delivery systems, approval workflows, financial transformation, data visualization, process automation, and digital tool implementation.
• Experience designing and delivering project management, quality, risk, commercial, or governance training for varied audiences.

Responsibilities

• Act as the regional project delivery partner to P&B leadership, advising on delivery performance, priorities, risk exposure, and improvement opportunities.
• Translate business strategy into practical delivery programs, governance requirements, training, tools, and performance-improvement initiatives.
• Coordinate across regions, business lines, and enabling functions to align practices, resolve complex execution issues, and support organizational change.
• Provide executive-level updates, commercial insight, and risk assessments that support informed leadership decisions and escalations.
• Lead and continuously improve P&B’s project review and approval processes, including Regional Delegation of Authority (RDOA) and President’s Review Committee risk-review workflows.
• Review opportunity and project information for completeness, approval requirements, contractual and pricing risk, elevated standard of care, and mitigation documentation.
• Coordinate with Legal, Finance, Strategic Growth, business leadership, Quality, Health & Safety, Ethics & Compliance, and project teams to support risk-based decisions.
• Facilitate governance reviews, document decisions and approval conditions, track follow-up, and maintain audit-defensible records.
• Oversee contractual risk, work-at-risk, change management, contingency usage, disputes, escalations, and recovery planning.
• Oversee portfolio performance processes, including readiness reviews, monthly and enhanced project reviews, financial health checks, audits, and closeout reviews.
• Use financial and operational data to identify trends, root causes, and projects requiring additional oversight or intervention.
• Partner with project and financial leaders to improve forecasting, estimates to complete, margin protection, cash performance, invoicing, collections, and recovery planning.
• Guide teams in mitigation and recovery plans for projects that deviate from scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, safety, or client expectations.
• Promote disciplined project setup, planning, controls, documentation, reporting, and formal closeout.
• Develop and continuously improve delivery standards, procedures, templates, checklists, dashboards, guides, and communication materials.
• Oversee adoption of the Project Delivery Management System (PDMS) and related delivery, financial, approval, contract, and reporting tools.
• Simplify workflows, reduce duplication, and coordinate cross-functional solutions that improve consistency, efficiency, and user experience.
• Capture lessons learned and best practices, convert them into practical improvements, and share them across P&B and broader delivery communities.
• Represent P&B in U.S. and global delivery initiatives, working groups, platform development, and process-design efforts.
• Develop onboarding, role-based training, lunch-and-learns, job aids, and learning resources for project managers, project directors, regional delivery leaders, coordinators, and support teams.
• Provide coaching on delivery requirements, project management plans, quality plans, risk management plans, safety plans, commercial controls, and governance processes.
• Support project management leveling, development, accreditation, and broader workforce capability initiatives.
• Establish consistent expectations and operating rhythms for regional project delivery leads and related support roles.
• Promote accountability, ethical decision-making, continuous improvement, quality, safety, and client-focused delivery.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• disability
• life
• retirement savings
• paid sick leave
• paid vacation (or other personal time)
• paid parental leave
• paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior