# Senior Vice President, Commercial and Risk **Company**: WSP **Location**: Montreal, QC **Experience**: executive **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $208,229 **Category**: Consulting **Industry**: Consulting **Apply**: https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/94939?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_463c08bf-e13 ## Description ## Job Description We are WSP, a global community of brilliant minds that exist to shape communities to advance humanity. ### The Opportunity As a Senior Vice President, Commercial and Risk, you will report directly to WSP Canada's President and be part of the Canadian Executive Team. In this senior executive Canadian leadership role, you will shape the commercial and risk strategy for WSP Canada. Based in Montreal, you'll lead initiatives supporting sustainable and profitable growth through opportunity selection, teamings and partnerings, major proposals, negotiations, major project delivery, and material variations, claims management, governance, opportunities identification, and risk mitigation. ### Your Impact - Act as a key advisor to the President and Executive Leadership team on material, complex, unforeseen, or new commercial and risk issues or project situations. - Chair the Canadian Review and Approval Panel (RAP) for material opportunities and teaming agreements while proactively monitoring major projects' health during execution. - Align risk & commercial strategy, governance, and team to broader WSP Canada goals for the Region and globally. - Lead commercial and risk teams, resources, and budget, ensuring governance and strategy are applied consistently across WSP Canada. - Manage key commercial and risk resources of the WSP Canada team and indirect reporting of the Sector's Commercial & Risk Leads. - Lead WSP Canada's Commercial and Risk Network, a national group for sharing best practices and lessons learned. - Guide and support senior business leaders and project teams through complex or material commercial & risk issues that may impact WSP Canada. - Direct high-impact initiatives that improve how the organization identifies opportunities and risks, positions, manages, negotiates, improves, and maintains profitability. - Represent WSP Canada's Commercial & Risk team, driving alignment and strategic priorities. - Ensure alignment and consistency within WSP Canada's commercial and risk team, governance, positions, and strategy. - Together with WSP Canada's VP Risk, provide executive leadership for the region's Enterprise Risk Management cycled reviews, updates, and reporting. - Establish and track KPIs to support project teams and the Commercial & Risk teams in achieving WSP Canada's objectives. - Monitor commercial and risk performance on major bids and projects, identifying and addressing risks, scope, schedule, and budget changes and impacts. - Provide data, analytics, and reporting on bids and projects performance metrics to inform strategic decisions. - Be actively involved in the Canadian infrastructure industry community by fostering relationships with key clients, contractors, and partners. - Collaborate with other Sector, Regional, and Support Functions to ensure integrated solutions. - Develop and deliver training on commercial and risk principles, governance, and best practices. ### The Skills That Set You Apart - Executive leadership and ability to advise top leadership on cross-functional and enterprise-wide issues. - Strategic thinking, problem-solving, and solutions-oriented, strong negotiations skills. - Deep knowledge and experience of the engineering and construction industry. - Experience leading senior management teams across multiple high-impact initiatives. - Strong executive presence, negotiation capability, strategic thinking, and judgement. - Strong business acumen and ability to navigate complex organizational structures and issues. - Proven track record of experience with opportunity selection, partnerings, proposals, contracts, negotiation, project change management, documentation, claims, and risk management. - Deep understanding of engineering operations and projects, RFPs, RFQs, proposals, and project delivery. - Commercial and risk experience and expertise, including in various major projects delivery models and partnering strategies and agreements. - Advanced conflict resolution, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills. - Professional designation in Law, Engineering, or Finance or equivalent, combined with 15+ years of industry experience in commercial and risk management. - Bilingual (French/English) required. - Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills for executive-level communication. ### Why Choose WSP? - Proudly Canadian – we are a Top 100 Employer in Canada for 2026. - A global community of brilliant minds – your next idea, mentor, or opportunity is always within reach. - Limitless opportunities start here. - Flexible work, real balance – we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours. ### Compensation Base compensation starting at $208,229. ## Skills ### Required - Executive leadership - Strategic thinking - Problem-solving - Negotiations skills - Engineering and construction industry knowledge - Leadership experience - Business acumen - Commercial and risk management - Conflict resolution - Stakeholder management - French --- Source: [Apply at emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com](https://emit.fa.ca3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2001/job/94939?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)