Head Of Supply Chain in Cambourne

As our first Head of Supply Chain, you'll define and lead the strategy, organisation and execution of supply across Cellular Origins. You'll be responsible for how we source, contract, manage and scale everything needed to design, build, deploy and support our Constellation systems. This is both a strategic and hands-on leadership role. You'll work closely with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Field Operations and PMO, ensuring supply decisions support GMP requirements, commercial realities and customer expectations. As the company grows, you'll grow the team, the capability and the operating model alongside it.

What you'll do

• Design and embed a supply chain operating model that supports the full lifecycle of our systems, from development through to customer deployment and long-term service.
• Build strong, pragmatic supplier relationships.
• Lead commercial and contractual negotiations, working closely with Legal to ensure agreements are robust, balanced and appropriate for a regulated life sciences environment.
• Take clear ownership of supplier risk, continuity planning, change control and long-lead items.
• Build and lead a high-performing supply chain and procurement team.
• Define roles, interfaces and priorities, creating simple structures that work now and can scale over time.
• Evolve governance, planning, inventory and supplier performance management.
• Focus on stabilising critical supply paths for upcoming deployments, strengthening supplier contracts in high-impact areas, introducing lightweight planning and inventory approaches, and ensuring we can consistently provide the evidence and traceability expected by regulated customers.

About you

• Enjoy building capability where none existed before, then helping it mature as complexity grows.
• Comfortable working in environments where not everything is defined yet, bringing sound judgement to balancing pace, quality and risk.
• Significant experience leading supply chain or procurement activity in complex, regulated environments such as cell and gene therapy, biopharma manufacturing, medical devices, automation, instrumentation or closely related life sciences fields.
• Experience building or scaling supply chain functions, comfortable moving between hands-on detail and longer-term design.
• Understand what good looks like in GMP-relevant supply, from equipment configuration and consumables control to documentation, traceability and change management.
• Work well with Quality and Regulatory colleagues, appreciating how supply chain decisions affect validation, compliance and customer confidence.
• Experienced people leader, having built and developed teams, created clarity around ownership and expectations, and fostered collaborative ways of working.
• Bring a pragmatic mindset, commercial awareness and a genuine interest in how your work supports patients at the end of the chain.

Benefits

• Annual bonus
• 25 days holiday
• Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary
• Free lunch and all-day refreshments
• Private medical insurance for employees and dependants
• Enhanced family friendly leave
• Life insurance worth 6x salary
• Electric car leasing scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season ticket loan
• Activities and community that supports healthy activities that bring colleagues together; whether it's lunchtime squash or football, Zumba or our own rock band.
• Local sports facilities and theatre discounts and memberships.

If you'd like to build a supply chain that helps advanced cell therapies reach more patients, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now to join a team focused on turning scientific potential into reliable, scalable reality. Every application will be reviewed by the hiring team and will receive a response.