Transformation Project Delivery Director

WSP USA; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 153,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

WSP USA is seeking a Transformation Project Delivery Director to own the integrated delivery of complex, cross-functional initiatives in the US transformation portfolio. You will translate priorities into executable plans, establish governance, and coordinate activities to deliver measurable business outcomes.

This role partners with the OCM Lead to ensure readiness, adoption, and sustained ownership across initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related discipline.
• 12+ years of project or program management experience leading complex, multidisciplinary initiatives.
• Experience managing scope, schedules, budgets, quality, risks, dependencies, governance, and project information.
• Experience leading strategic, operational, technology, systems, finance, integration, or M&A initiatives.
• Experience in a large, matrixed organization and influencing across teams.
• Strong understanding of organizational change and people implications of transformation.
• Executive-level written, verbal, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex transformation initiatives from definition through implementation, stabilization, and closeout.
• Translate objectives into clear scope, milestones, and an integrated delivery plan.
• Coordinate activities across business, process, technology, data, and controls.
• Maintain focus on measurable outcomes and clear ownership of deliverables.
• Establish governance, decision rights, escalation paths, and reporting cadence.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Change management

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

This Opportunity

The Transformation Project Delivery Director is accountable for the integrated delivery of complex, cross-functional initiatives within the US transformation portfolio. The role translates transformation priorities into executable plans, establishes governance and accountability, and coordinates the activities required to deliver sustainable business outcomes. Focus includes:

• Integrated plan and delivery

• Scope, schedule, milestones, dependencies, and resources

• Governance, decisions, and escalation

• Risk and issue management

• Implementation and stabilization

• Business outcomes and ownership handoff

This role will partner directly with the Organizational Change Management (OCM) Lead on each initiative, incorporating change impacts, stakeholder readiness, and adoption requirements into the integrated delivery plan. This role is responsible for supporting the US business across a dynamic, complex business environment to navigate portfolio dependencies, executive decision-making, implementation readiness, measurable outcomes, and the transition of new capabilities into sustainable business ownership. The Transformation Project Delivery Director will work closely with initiative sponsors, business and functional leaders, technology teams, Organizational Change Management, subject matter experts, and regional and global transformation partners.

The Transformation Project Delivery Director and OCM Lead work as an integrated delivery partnership on each initiative. The Transformation Project Delivery Director owns the integrated delivery plan, governance, execution, and business outcomes. The OCM Lead owns the change strategy, stakeholder engagement, organizational readiness, and adoption outcomes. Both roles jointly identify risks, advise sponsors, and ensure delivery decisions reflect operational and people impacts.

This position can be based out of any mutually agreed WSP US office.

Your Impact

Key Responsibilities

Integrated Planning and Delivery

• Lead complex transformation initiatives from definition through implementation, stabilization, and closeout.

• Translate strategic objectives into clear scope, outcomes, workstreams, milestones, resource requirements, and integrated delivery plan.

• Coordinate business, process, technology, data, controls, and change activities within the overall plan.

• Maintain focus on measurable business outcomes and clear ownership of deliverables.

• Tailor the delivery approach to the complexity, risk, and needs of each initiative.

Governance and Decision Management

• Establish clear governance, roles, decision rights, escalation paths, and meeting cadences.

• Provide sponsors and senior leaders with concise, decision-oriented reporting on progress, risks, dependencies, resources, and outcomes.

• Track key decisions, commitments, assumptions, and unresolved issues.

• Escalate matters requiring leadership action with clear options, implications, and recommendations.

• Apply US Transformation Office standards, tools, and controls throughout the initiative lifecycle.

Cross-Functional Coordination and Dependency Management

• Lead multidisciplinary teams across business, operational, functional, and technical areas.

• Build alignment among stakeholders with differing priorities, objectives, and constraints.

• Identify and manage dependencies across workstreams, initiatives, systems, business lines, and global programs.

• Facilitate decisions, establish clear ownership, and remove barriers to delivery.

• Coordinate with the OCM Lead to ensure stakeholder impacts, organizational readiness, and adoption requirements are integrated into project decisions and plans.

Risk and Implementation Readiness

• Own the integrated risk, issue, action, and dependency process, ensuring accountable owners and mitigation plans are established.

• Monitor resource, capacity, schedule, technology, data, control, and operational risks that may affect delivery.

• Lead implementation readiness, confirming that process, technology, data, controls, support, staffing, and business ownership requirements are addressed.

• Develop implementation, cutover, contingency, stabilization, and transition plans.

• Partner with the OCM Lead to provide sponsors with an integrated readiness assessment that distinguishes implementation readiness from organizational readiness.

Performance and Sustainable Outcomes

• Monitor progress against approved scope, milestones, and expected outcomes, and lead corrective action when delivery is off track.

• Maintain an accurate source of truth for plans, decisions, risks, dependencies, and governance materials.

• Coordinate stabilization and the structured handoff of new capabilities to permanent business owners.

• Capture lessons learned and apply them to improve future transformation delivery.

• Strengthen project-management capability through practical guidance, coaching, and consistent delivery practices.

Who You Are

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, information systems, engineering, finance, data analytics, or a related discipline; equivalent experience will be considered.

• 12+ or more years of project or program management experience, including leadership of complex, multidisciplinary initiatives.

• Demonstrated experience managing scope, schedules, budgets, quality, risks, dependencies, governance, and project information.

• Experience leading strategic, operational, technology, systems, finance, integration, or M&A-related initiatives.

• Experience working within a large, matrixed organization and leading teams through influence.

• Strong understanding of organizational change and the people implications of transformation.

• Strong project and program leadership.

• Executive-level written, verbal, and presentation skills.

• Ability to simplify complexity and organize ambiguous work.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-support and capabilities.

• Ability to influence across organizational boundaries.

• Effective stakeholder engagement and conflict resolution.

• Resourceful with ability to manage competing priorities without losing focus on critical outcomes.

• Sound judgment regarding when to resolve, elevate, or recommend a change in direction.

• Strong attention to ownership, dependencies, and sustainable handoffs.

• Working knowledge of company systems, processes, workflows and information-management tools.

• Commitment to a people-centered approach that considers both business outcomes and employee experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP or equivalent certification is preferred; comparable experience will be considered.

• Experience in professional services, engineering, consulting, or another project-based environment is preferred.

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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): $153,400-$283,600

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant’s sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee’s career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges.

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

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