# Commerical Manager **Company**: WSP USA **Location**: Dallas, TX **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $83,000 - $126,000 **Category**: Consulting **Industry**: Consulting **Apply**: https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/97817?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_0c34dd66-eaf ## Description 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. **Your Impact** **Strategic Leadership and Business Partnership** - 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. **Governance, Risk, and Approval Processes** - 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. **Project Performance and Portfolio Oversight** - 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. **Standards, Tools, and Continuous Improvement** - 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. **Training, Capability, and Team Enablement** - 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. **Qualifications** **Required Qualifications** - 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. **Preferred Qualifications** - 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. **WSP Benefits** WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings. **Compensation** Expected Salary (all locations): $83,000 - $126,000 ## Skills ### Required - project management - risk management - quality management - financial management - Microsoft 365 ### Nice to have - Project or Program Management Professional (PMP) certification - enterprise project delivery systems - data visualization - process automation --- Source: [Apply at emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com](https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/97817?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)