Commerical Manager

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.

• 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.

• 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…