UK Government Business Development Manager

RigNet; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A global company is seeking a Business Development professional to engage with Defence users and help realize their ambitions for digital solutions. This role involves direct engagement with senior officials and front-line commands, addressing complex challenges with innovative technology solutions. Candidates should have significant experience in business development or related fields and a technical mindset, ideally in communications engineering.

Qualifications

• 5 years of BD experience or relevant recent experience in defence.
• Ability to attain a UK Security Clearance.
• Technical mindset, preferably with a communications engineering background.

Responsibilities

• Engaging with tactical and operational level user groups.
• Capturing real-world challenges and requirements.
• Influencing senior defence officials to shape policy.

Skills

Business Development

Listening Skills

Problem-Solving

Job description

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

Viasat International Government delivers secure space, cyber, and network solutions to governments around the world. Within VIG, the UK Team focuses on Defence users across MoD and partners across government. The successful candidate will be engaged across defence, focusing on MoD, to help them realize their ambitions for the Digital Targeting Web, tactical networks, crypto, and satellite communications.

This role involves working with tactical and operational level user groups to capture real-world challenges and requirements, influencing senior defence officials to shape policy, and driving brand awareness and preference for Viasat's products and services.

You will be part of a team delivering mission-critical capabilities to our partners and in a company that, through projects such as Moonlight, is working to deliver the digital highway on and around the moon.

The day-to-day

The individual will be engaging across:

• Front Line Commands
• Special User Groups
• Partners Across Government

They will work to solve challenges with Viasat's extensive satellite and defence technologies portfolio, including:

• Resilient network architectures
• Multi-Domain Integration and C2
• Commercial Satcom
• Securing data in transit
• Milsatcom UHF

Focusing on end-user engagement, the candidate will also collaborate with industry partners, including large primes in strategic SATCOM and LE TacCIS programmes, as well as SMEs such as UAx manufacturers, satcom partners, and defence Mission Partners.

What you'll need

• 5 years of BD experience or relevant recent experience in defence
• Ability to attain a UK Security Clearance
• Technical mindset, preferably with a communications engineering background

What will help you on the job

• Good listening skills
• Curiosity and asking questions
• Problem-solving skills
• Ability to drive tasks to completion
• Team player, able to pull people together
• Current understanding of defence challenges, including knowledge of programs like Asgard, Strike Net, Cabot, Rapstone, etc.
• Ability to identify future defence needs and how Viasat can help

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, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. For accommodation requests during the application process, please click here.