Experienced Change Management Specialist

WSP; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP is seeking a Change Management Specialist/Project Manager to help clients navigate workplace modernization, relocations, and hybrid work programs. You will blend strategic consulting with hands-on delivery, guiding change from planning through adoption while supporting mid-to-high complexity project delivery as needed.

You will lead stakeholder engagement, readiness assessments, and adoption frameworks, collaborating with executives and cross-functional teams to drive measurable value and

Qualifications

• Experience leading change management initiatives in transformation projects.
• Proven project management experience delivering medium-to-high complexity programs.
• Expertise in change strategies, impact/readiness assessments, communications plans, training programs, and adoption frameworks.
• Strong facilitation skills for stakeholder interviews, workshops, and leadership sessions.
• Ability to develop client-ready proposals, project approaches, methodologies, scopes of work, budgets, and presentations.
• Proven ability to influence and collaborate with senior leaders, employees, vendors, and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead change management programs for workplace modernization, relocations, hybrid work models, and organizational transformation initiatives.
• Drive engagement, readiness, adoption, and long-term change sustainability with executives, leaders, employees, and stakeholders.
• Develop and execute change strategies, readiness assessments, communication templates, training programs, and adoption frameworks.
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, focus groups, and leadership sessions that align stakeholders and build readiness.
• Identify risks, resistance points, and operational impacts, implementing mitigation strategies that improve project outcomes.
• Contribute to business growth by developing proposals, scopes of work, methodologies, and client-facing presentations.
• Flex into medium-to-high-complexity workplace project delivery as required, including relocations, restacks, site activations, decommissions, vendor coordination, schedules, risks/issues, financial tracking, and readiness.
• Measure adoption success and recommend continuous improvements that help clients realize value from transformation investments.

Skills

Change management

Project management

Change strategies

Facilitation

Client proposals

Stakeholder influence

Job description

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The Opportunity

Help organizations successfully navigate transformation by connecting people, process, and project delivery.

As a Change Management Specialist/ Project Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in helping clients adapt, adopt, and thrive through workplace modernization initiatives, office relocations, hybrid work programs, organizational change, and business transformation projects. Working within our Project Management, Cost and Advisory team, you'll blend strategic consulting expertise with hands‑on project delivery, helping clients move confidently from change planning through implementation and adoption.

Approximately 75% of your time will focus on change management leadership, stakeholder engagement, communications, readiness, adoption, and advisory services, while 25% will support project management and workplace project delivery.

This allocation may flex based on client needs, project lifecycle, and business priorities.

Your Impact

• Lead change management programs that support workplace modernization, relocations, hybrid work models, and organizational transformation initiatives.

• Partner with executives, leaders, employees, and stakeholders to drive engagement, readiness, adoption, and long‑term change sustainability.

• Develop and execute change strategies, stakeholder engagement plans, impact and readiness assessments, communication templates, training programs, and adoption frameworks.

• Facilitate workshops, interviews, focus groups, and leadership sessions that align stakeholders and build organizational readiness.

• Identify risks, resistance points, and operational impacts, implementing mitigation strategies that improve project outcomes.

• Contribute to business growth by developing proposals, scopes of work, methodologies, and client‑facing presentations.

• Flex into Project Management When Needed: Step into medium‑to‑high‑complexity workplace project delivery as required, including relocations, restacks, site activations, decommissions, vendor coordination, schedules, risks/issues, financial tracking, construction‑to‑operations, and operational readiness.

• Measure adoption success and recommend continuous improvements that help clients realize the full value of transformation investments.

The Skills That Set You Apart

• Experience leading change management initiatives within workplace, organisational, business, or digital transformation environments.

• Demonstrated project management experience delivering medium‑to‑high‑complexity projects and programs.

• Expertise developing change strategies, impact assessments, readiness assessments, communications plans, training programs, and adoption frameworks.

• Strong facilitation skills with experience leading stakeholder interviews, workshops, focus groups, and leadership sessions.

• Ability to develop client‑ready proposals, project approaches, methodologies, scopes of work, budgets, and presentations.

• Proven ability to influence and collaborate with senior leaders, employees, vendors, and cross‑functional teams.