At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead exciting projects in a dynamic environment, ensuring timely delivery and quality outcomes.
- Company: Join Viasat, a global leader in innovative communication solutions.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, inclusive culture, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work onsite in Farnborough with a collaborative and diverse team.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by managing projects that change the world.
- Qualifications: Experience in project management and strong communication skills required.
The predicted salary is between 55035 - 67265 £ per year.
About us
One team. Global challenges. Infinite opportunities. At Viasat, we’re on a mission to deliver connections with the capacity to change the world. For more than 35 years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the globe communicate. We’re looking for people who think big, act fearlessly, and create an inclusive environment that drives positive impact to join our team.
What you’ll do
At Viasat UK our team provides industry leading, government approved Data at Rest encryption solutions to government and defence organisations, globally. Our capability extends into multiple systems and platforms within a myriad of domains, providing versatile projects and exciting opportunities.
As a results driven Project Manager reporting to the Programme Director, you will be responsible for delivering projects through their full lifecycle to time, cost and quality. Managing a multi-disciplinary engineering team and co-ordinating a multi-functional delivery team, you will utilise your excellent communication and organisational skills to ensure the team fully understand their outcomes and objectives whilst fostering collaborative relationships to develop customer intimacy to drive growth and manage change.
The day-to-day
- Project reporting, including scheduling, financial reporting, budgeting and risk management
- Stakeholder management (Internal and External)
- Cross-departmental working
- Matrix Management of multi-disciplinary delivery teams
- Internal Progress Meetings
- Customer Progress Meetings (Teams and F2F)
- Effort estimating
- Scheduling
- Resource
- Time Management system
- RAID Identification and Management
- Change Control
- Compilation of whitepapers, bids and proposals with content, cost and scheduling information
What you’ll need
- Multiple years experience of project Management in a technical environment
- Qualified to APMP/Prince 2 Practitioner (or equivalent)
- UK national and able to achieve DV clearance
- Role requires you to be onsite in our Farnborough location for a minimum of 3 days per week
- Strong working knowledge of common project management methodologies
What will help you on the job
- Strong relationship builder
- Knowledge of project delivery to MoD and/or secure communications
- Good working knowledge of MS Office including MS Project
EEO Statement
Viasat is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, seeking to create a welcoming and diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, genetics, age, or veteran status or any other applicable legally protected status or characteristic.
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