Senior Manager, Business Operations

Posted 13 hours ago

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Job Details

Full Time

Location

Toronto, ON

Job Description

The Opportunity:

Join our dynamic team and lead project management efforts to ensure successful delivery on commitments and financial targets for the Constuction Services & Materials Engineering (CSME) Group!

In this position, you will provide operational leadership and direction for the CSME Business Unit and optimize the financial, commercial, and project delivery performance within the market segment. The role supports coordination of efforts across sub-sectors and develops plans, programs, and organizational objectives to enhance margins, workforce utilization, and cash generation. All activities are undertaken in support of the WSP Canada strategic plan.

Why choose WSP?

We value and are committed to upholding a culture of inclusion and belonging
Our Flexible Work Policy - we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours. We will support you on and off the job so you can be fully present in both your work and home lives.
A Canadian success story - we're proud to wear the red and white of this beautiful country and show the world what Canada has to offer.
Enhance the world around you - from the environment to the highways, to the buildings and the terrain, WSP is the fabric of Canada.
Outstanding career opportunities - we're growing and pushing ourselves every day to be greater than yesterday - we're open to your ideas and trying new things.
A phenomenal collaborative culture and a workforce filled with genuinely good people who are doing humbly important work. Come find out for yourself what it's like to be a part of our journey.

We offer attractive pay, flexible work options, a great corporate culture, comprehensive and employee-focused benefits including virtual healthcare and a wellness platform as well as great savings programs, and a clear vision for the future.

#WeAreWSP

What you can expect to do here:

You will guide and direct project management employees on measures to mitigate project performance issues and risks, ensuring successful delivery on the contractual commitments and financial targets for the project portfolio to meet client expectations and achieve or exceed profitability targets for the CSME Group.
You will conduct regular project reviews to ensure budget, schedule, risk, and cost to complete estimates are in order.
You will effectively communicate and manage the implementation of the operating plan and its objectives for the market segment, with primary efforts focused on project delivery excellence, financial performance, overhead cost management, cash collection, and adherence to the strategic plan. You will report back to the Environmental Planning Vice-President on current performance and priorities to successfully close month and quarter ends.
You will help develop the operating plan and financial forecasts in collaboration with the CSME Vice-President, the E&E ONAC Director - Operations, and the individual directors and managers.
You will help identify opportunities to increase revenue for equipment and fleet in Environmental Planning.
You will work closely with the finance, quality, legal/risk, and project delivery shared services to advance project management tools such as project status reports, ensuring proper deployment and utilization within the market segment.
You will promote collaboration across offices to ensure effective resource sharing, workload/resource balancing, and to bring the best the market segment has to bear to meet the needs of clients.
You will monitor business development investments to deliver acceptable returns on the investments, aligned with the regional market segment strategy and its backlog and sales targets.
You will visibly champion the WSP programs of safety and ethics & compliance to ensure they are an overriding part of the organizational culture.

What you'll bring to WSP:

Post-secondary education in a STEM-related discipline, business, or an equivalent field.
Experience in management or project management within environmental planning, engineering, or related sectors that handle large, technical, and complex projects.
A strong history of delivering quality financial performance and results.
Advanced people and leadership skills to effectively manage relationships, achieve consensus, and drive results.
Ability to assess situations proactively and creatively, demonstrating good judgment and informed risk-taking.
Highly professional with strong written and oral communication skills.
Confidence to influence a high-caliber team, driving the business to higher performance levels and seizing opportunities both internally and in the market.
A track record of creating a climate where people want to do their best by working collaboratively, empowering teams to solve problems, and fostering a clear sense of identity with the company.
Internal WSP experience is considered a strong asset but not required.

WSP is one of the world's leading professional services firms. Our purpose is to future proof our cities and environments.

We have over 65,000 team members across the globe. In Canada, our 12,000+ people are involved in everything from environmental remediation to urban planning, from engineering iconic buildings to designing sustainable transportation networks, from finding new ways to extract essential resources to developing renewable power sources for the future.

At WSP:

We value our people and our reputation
We are locally dedicated with international scale
We are future focused and challenge the status quo
We foster collaboration in everything we do
We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable

Please Note:

Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe it is expected that you comply with our Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations.

Offers of employment for safety-sensitive positions involving fieldwork are contingent upon candidates being able to perform key physical tasks of the job as described in the job posting and interview. This may include the ability to work in a variety of environmental conditions, such as remote or isolated areas, working alone, and in inclement weather (within safe and reasonable limits).

WSP welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

WSP is committed to the principles of employment equity. Only the candidates selected will be contacted.

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. For more information please READ THE FULL POLICY.

About WSP Canada

WSP is one of the world's leading professional services consulting firms. We are dedicated to our local communities and propelled by international expertise. We are technical experts and strategic advisors including engineers, technicians, scientists, planners, landscape architects and urban designers, surveyors and environmental specialists, as well as other design, program and construction management professionals. We design lasting solutions in the Buildings, Transportation, Infrastructure, Environment, Geomatics, Energy, Resources, and Industrial sectors as well as project delivery and strategic consulting services. With over 8,000 talented people across Canada, we engineer projects that will help societies grow for generations to come.