About us
At Viasat, the work you do helps people stay connected in ways that matter, from everyday moments to critical missions across air, land, sea, and space.
We’re a place for people who are curious, bold, and motivated by meaningful work. Here, you'll have the opportunity to make an impact, explore new possibilities, and grow your career in ways that align with your interests and goals. When you're ready to take on something new, you'll find leaders who support your development and help you turn your ambition into action.
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 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. If you would like to request an accommodation on the basis of disability for completing this on-line application, please click here.
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