Project Manager

Job description

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.

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 understands their outcomes and objectives whilst fostering collaborative relationships to develop customer intimacy to drive growth and manage change

• 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

• 3-5 years of experience in project Management in a technical environment
• Qualified to APMP/Prince 2 Practitioner (or equivalent)
• UK national and able to achieve DV clearance 
• The role requires you to be on-site in our Farnborough location for a minimum of 3 days per week
• Strong working knowledge of common project management methodologies

• Strong relationship builder
• Knowledge of project delivery to MoD and /or secure communications
• Good working knowledge of MS Office, including MS Project

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.