Job Description

Company Description

On May 31, 2023, Viasat completed its acquisition of Inmarsat, combining the teams, technologies and resources of the two companies to create a new global communications partner.

About Viasat

Viasat is a global communications company that believes everyone and everything in the world can be connected. With offices in 24 countries around the world, our mission shapes how consumers, businesses, governments and militaries around the world communicate and connect. Viasat is developing the ultimate global communications network to power high-quality, reliable, secure, affordable, fast connections to positively impact people\'s lives anywhere they are-on the ground, in the air or at sea, while building a sustainable future in space.

Commercial & Digital Solutions (CDS)

CDS is enabling safer, more efficient, more sustainable operations wherever businesses operate on land. Our customers trust us to deliver the industry standard in reliable mobile satellite connectivity, underpinning mission critical communications, remote operations, machine-to-machine (M2M) applications and the Industrial Internet of Things (IoT). With expertise in agriculture, aid and NGO, media, mining, oil and gas, renewables, transport and utilities we build solutions that deliver transformational outcomes and ensure the right level of ongoing management.



The focus of your role

The role will assess markets and identify opportunities within them that are aligned to Inmarsat\'s strategy. The opportunities will then be scoped during feasibility work before an outline proposition is built. The role will ensure that we are developing the most valuable propositions available and transitioning them to teams that will manage implementation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop business cases for strategic projects and programmes for Exec approval
• Define the technical propositions being proposed in Exec language (based on tech team input)
• Develop the plans to commercialise the solution
• Coordinate across the BUs/central teams to create the high level business case
• Engage stakeholders to get agreement with business case
• Engage with BUs and CDS to understand the market opportunities related to the propositions. Objectively assess their likely market success given the competitive environment.
• Engage with customers and Partners through insight team work and directly to determine the attractiveness of propositions
• Work with Commercial and Product team expertise to build a proposition description
• Coordinate across central teams and BUs to establish a programme of work and support the execution of that work in the feasibility stages
• Define an outline programme of work which will be handed onto to Commercial, Product and Delivery teams for implementation
• Engage with external partners on work related to strategic programmes and projects working towards agreements or contracts.
• Feeding into reporting and budgeting processes on strategic programmes and programmes
• Producing Excel based financial models for propositions in order to support business cases
• Key performance metric for the role will be:
• Timely business case approval and ultimately accuracy of related EBITDA forecasts

Qualifications

Essential Knowledge and Skills you\'ll bring to the role

• Ability to develop a business case
• Satellite or telco background desirable. Networking knowledge a plus.
• Skilled at financial and commercial modelling in Excel, including options analysis
• Data driven and able to articulate and communicate the message behind the data
• Ideally ex-strategy consultant for the following skills sets and characteristics: hypothesis led, able to manage projects within an organisation/influence others (without hierarchical authority), able to work to tight timescales, ability to define a problem and then structure a path to a solution.
• Excellent written and presentational skills, for Exec level
• Ability to summarise lengthy information into Executive bullet points
• Commercial experience i.e. able to quickly hone in on the constituents of commercial success/failure.
• Expected to work under tight timescales
• MBA qualification desirable
• Knowledge of AI a bonus

Additional Information

You must be eligible to work in this location advertised.

Our culture and ways of working

Our values define our culture and represent what we believe in. Viasat employees aspire to behaviours that support our values, which create a stronger working environment and lie at the heart of our continued success as an organisation.

• Customer - we provide a unique value to our customers
• Accountability - we take ownership, we deliver results, and we keep our promises
• Respect - we collaborate, we embrace and celebrate diversity and we value difference
• Excellence - we create bold solutions for our customers and put quality at the heart of everything we do

We also value and encourage a healthy work-life balance, so we offer flexible working wherever possible. Depending on the operational requirements of your job and your team, we can offer compressed hours (nine-day fortnight), hybrid office-remote working, and flexibility during your working day to take care of personal commitments.

Diversity

We want the best people for the job, and we warmly welcome applications from you if you\'re suitably qualified and eligible, regardless of your sex, gender, age, race, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, gender identity, neurodiverse qualities, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, or maternity status.

We are signed up to the Halo Hair Code, which aims to protect employees who come to work with natural hair and protective hairstyles associated with their racial, ethnic, and cultural identities.

To give you the best experience possible during your application process and interview, we can make adjustments. For example, if you\'re visually impaired we\'ll happily meet you locally and help you find your way to our office, or if you have neurodiverse qualities, we can provide you with additional support to help you prepare for your interview. Please let our Resourcing Team know if there are any ways in which we can support you.

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