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Commercial Director roles in the U.S. require demonstrating specialty occupation status, which means showing your degree directly aligns with strategic commercial leadership. The E-3 visa gives Australian professionals a clear path to sponsorship with no lottery and indefinite two-year renewals, so the focus is entirely on finding the right employer.
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The Regional Commercial Director – Water provides commercial leadership across a Transportation and Infrastructure business region with accountability for margin preservation, pricing strategy, and commercial governance throughout the project lifecycle. This role serves as a senior leader and trusted commercial authority, shaping how the business evaluates risk, prices work, governs pursuits, and delivers profitable outcomes across a complex project portfolio.
Reporting to the Business Line Commercial Director – Transportation and Infrastructure, the Regional Commercial Director – Water works in close partnership with the West and East Region Water Operations leadership to support the business in a clearly defined, complementary operating model. While Operations leads the day-to-day execution and performance of the business, the Commercial Director brings disciplined commercial strategy, judgment, and oversight to protect value, challenge assumptions, and elevate decision-making across pursuits and delivery.
This role is responsible for setting the commercial bar for the region—bringing rigor, curiosity, and constructive challenge to pricing decisions, governance processes, and project performance—while coaching and influencing teams to deliver consistent, high-quality commercial outcomes.
This role can sit in any major WSP office within the US.
Your Impact
Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide regional leadership for commercial strategy, pricing discipline, and governance across the Water portfolio with sustained focus on margin preservation.
- Own and lead pricing strategy for priority and high-risk pursuits, including price-to-win development and commercial positioning.
- Serve as the final authority for pricing and regional commercial governance.
- Partner with Strategic Growth, Legal, and Business Line leadership to support go / no-go decision-making.
- Lead and support governance processes including bid reviews, contract reviews, readiness reviews, and project reviews.
- Act as a player-coach, engaging directly in complex pursuits, negotiations, and at-risk projects as needed.
- Support client engagement during negotiations and delivery while reinforcing WSP’s commercial position.
- Work in lockstep with the Regional Operations Director to align commercial intent with operational execution.
- Provide oversight on contractual risk, change management, contingency usage, and recovery planning.
- Identify emerging commercial risks and opportunities through active project review and engagement.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Project Directors and Project Managers in complex or ambiguous situations.
- Coach and mentor leaders to strengthen commercial capability across the region.
- Contribute to continuous improvement and sharing of commercial best practices.
- Represent the commercial function in leadership forums with executive presence and sound judgment.
- Prepare and deliver executive-level commercial updates and risk assessments.
- Perform additional responsibilities as required to support the Transportation business.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Engineering, Business, Finance, or related field.
- 15+ years of relevant experience in commercial leadership, project delivery, pricing, or governance.
- Demonstrated experience leading or influencing pricing strategy and commercial governance.
- Strong understanding of contractual frameworks and project commercial lifecycles.
- Proven ability to provide commercial judgment in high-risk situations.
- Experience partnering with Legal, Operations, Finance, and Business Development.
- Strong communication skills and executive presence.
- Ability and willingness to travel within the region.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree or relevant professional certification.
- Experience with alternative delivery models.
- Previous experience in regional or enterprise commercial governance roles.
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): $166,000 - $272,000
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.
Expected Salary (Colorado only): $166,000 - $255,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and 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.
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. Are you ready to get started?
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.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
Commercial Director – US Water
The Regional Commercial Director – Water provides commercial leadership across a Transportation and Infrastructure business region with accountability for margin preservation, pricing strategy, and commercial governance throughout the project lifecycle. This role serves as a senior leader and trusted commercial authority, shaping how the business evaluates risk, prices work, governs pursuits, and delivers profitable outcomes across a complex project portfolio.
Reporting to the Business Line Commercial Director – Transportation and Infrastructure, the Regional Commercial Director – Water works in close partnership with the West and East Region Water Operations leadership to support the business in a clearly defined, complementary operating model. While Operations leads the day-to-day execution and performance of the business, the Commercial Director brings disciplined commercial strategy, judgment, and oversight to protect value, challenge assumptions, and elevate decision-making across pursuits and delivery.
This role is responsible for setting the commercial bar for the region—bringing rigor, curiosity, and constructive challenge to pricing decisions, governance processes, and project performance—while coaching and influencing teams to deliver consistent, high-quality commercial outcomes.
This role can sit in any major WSP office within the US.
Your Impact
Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide regional leadership for commercial strategy, pricing discipline, and governance across the Water portfolio with sustained focus on margin preservation.
- Own and lead pricing strategy for priority and high-risk pursuits, including price-to-win development and commercial positioning.
- Serve as the final authority for pricing and regional commercial governance.
- Partner with Strategic Growth, Legal, and Business Line leadership to support go / no-go decision-making.
- Lead and support governance processes including bid reviews, contract reviews, readiness reviews, and project reviews.
- Act as a player-coach, engaging directly in complex pursuits, negotiations, and at-risk projects as needed.
- Support client engagement during negotiations and delivery while reinforcing WSP’s commercial position.
- Work in lockstep with the Regional Operations Director to align commercial intent with operational execution.
- Provide oversight on contractual risk, change management, contingency usage, and recovery planning.
- Identify emerging commercial risks and opportunities through active project review and engagement.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Project Directors and Project Managers in complex or ambiguous situations.
- Coach and mentor leaders to strengthen commercial capability across the region.
- Contribute to continuous improvement and sharing of commercial best practices.
- Represent the commercial function in leadership forums with executive presence and sound judgment.
- Prepare and deliver executive-level commercial updates and risk assessments.
- Perform additional responsibilities as required to support the Transportation business.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Engineering, Business, Finance, or related field.
- 15+ years of relevant experience in commercial leadership, project delivery, pricing, or governance.
- Demonstrated experience leading or influencing pricing strategy and commercial governance.
- Strong understanding of contractual frameworks and project commercial lifecycles.
- Proven ability to provide commercial judgment in high-risk situations.
- Experience partnering with Legal, Operations, Finance, and Business Development.
- Strong communication skills and executive presence.
- Ability and willingness to travel within the region.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree or relevant professional certification.
- Experience with alternative delivery models.
- Previous experience in regional or enterprise commercial governance roles.
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): $166,000 - $272,000
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.
Expected Salary (Colorado only): $166,000 - $255,000
WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and/or offer for this position within the state of Colorado, based on the successful applicant’s education, experience, knowledge, skills, and 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.
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. Are you ready to get started?
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.
NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:
WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation – no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding E-3 Visa Sponsorship in Commercial Director
Frame your credentials around specialty occupation
Your Australian bachelor's degree qualifies, but the E-3 visa application requires showing it's directly tied to commercial leadership, not just general management. Pull together transcripts, role descriptions, and a CV that connects your economics, business, or marketing degree to the specific strategic functions of the role.
Target companies with existing LCA filing history
Employers who've filed Labor Condition Applications before already understand the DOL certification process and won't treat your visa as an unknown risk. Search OFLC disclosure data to identify companies that have sponsored similar senior commercial roles in recent fiscal years.
Address the specialty occupation question directly with hiring managers
Commercial Director titles can trigger skepticism because some employers assume broad leadership roles don't meet USCIS specialty occupation criteria. Clarify early that your role requires a specific degree field, not just any bachelor's, and that E-3 sponsorship doesn't involve a lottery or quota wait.
Get your offer letter to specify degree requirements
The LCA and DS-160 both depend on the job being defined as a specialty occupation. Your offer letter should state that the role requires a bachelor's degree in a specific field like business, economics, or marketing. A vague letter saying 'degree preferred' can cause problems at the consulate.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to manage the LCA and consulate prep
Once you have an offer, the employer files the LCA with DOL and you handle the DS-160 and consulate appointment. Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service manages the entire process from offer to consulate appointment, so neither you nor your employer needs to navigate the paperwork solo.
Prepare for nonimmigrant intent scrutiny at your interview
Senior commercial roles can attract additional consular scrutiny because officers sometimes question whether an executive-level candidate intends to return to Australia. Have clear, specific answers about your employment contract duration, your employer's U.S. operations, and what your role's scope looks like beyond initial tenure.
E-3 Visa Commercial Director: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I find Commercial Director jobs in the U.S. that offer E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals searching for roles with E-3 sponsorship, so you can filter directly for Commercial Director positions with employers already open to the visa. Most general job boards don't filter by visa type, which means you're often applying to roles where the hiring team has never heard of the E-3. Starting with a platform designed around sponsorship saves significant time at the offer stage.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Commercial Director role qualify as a specialty occupation under E-3 rules?
It can qualify, but the title alone isn't enough. USCIS looks at whether the role normally requires a bachelor's degree in a specific field, not just any degree or general experience. A Commercial Director position grounded in commercial strategy, market analysis, or business development with a clear degree requirement in economics, business, or marketing will typically satisfy the specialty occupation standard. Broad C-suite titles without a defined degree field are harder to support.
How does the E-3 compare to the H-1B for Commercial Director roles?
The E-3 has no annual lottery and no cap that creates wait times, which makes it substantially more predictable for senior hires. H-1B visa selection is random and capped at 85,000 per year, meaning your employer could sponsor you and still not get a visa slot. E-3 renewals are indefinite in two-year increments as long as you hold a qualifying role, so there's no forced transition pressure that often affects H-1B holders waiting on green card priority dates.
What happens to my E-3 status if I change employers or get promoted?
Changing employers requires a new LCA filing and a fresh E-3 application, which typically means returning to Australia for a consulate appointment unless you're already inside the U.S. and your new employer files promptly. A promotion within the same company is generally fine if the role still meets specialty occupation criteria, but a significant title change that shifts your core duties may warrant a new LCA to stay covered.