Head of Supply Chain in Cambridge

Overview

Head of Supply Chain. Full time, on-site, Melbourn, Cambridgeshire.

Cellular origins are developing automated factory platforms to enable scalable, high-quality manufacturing for cell therapies. As Head of Supply Chain, you’ll ensure everything behind those platforms works as it should, from specialist equipment and consumables to long-term supplier partnerships. This is an opportunity to build a supply chain function that grows with the business and supports the mission long term.

This is a strategic and hands-on leadership role. You’ll work with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Field Operations and PMO to ensure supply decisions support GMP requirements, commercial realities and customer expectations.

What you’ll do

• Define and embed a supply chain operating model that supports the full lifecycle of our systems, from development through customer deployment and long-term service, including equipment, consumables, software suppliers, sub-contractors and service partners.
• Build strong, pragmatic supplier relationships and lead commercial and contractual negotiations with Legal to ensure robust, balanced agreements suitable for a regulated life sciences environment.
• Own supplier risk, continuity planning, change control and long-lead items to enable rapid business execution while managing risk.
• Build and lead a high-performing supply chain and procurement team, defining roles, interfaces and priorities, and creating scalable structures.
• As deployments move from early phases to broader commercial delivery, evolve governance, planning, inventory and supplier performance management to support predictability without slowing progress.
• In the first 6 to 12 months, stabilise critical supply paths for upcoming deployments, strengthen supplier contracts in high-impact areas, introduce lightweight planning and inventory approaches, and ensure evidence and traceability required by regulated customers are consistently provided.

Qualifications

• You enjoy building capability where none existed before and can mature it as complexity grows, balancing pace, quality and risk.
• Significant experience leading supply chain or procurement in complex, regulated environments such as cell and gene therapy, biopharma manufacturing, medical devices, automation, instrumentation or related life sciences fields.
• Experience building or scaling supply chain functions, with the ability to operate at both hands-on and strategic design levels.
• Understanding of GMP-relevant supply, including equipment configuration, consumables control, documentation, traceability and change management; ability to work with Quality and Regulatory colleagues and understand how supply decisions impact validation and compliance.
• Experience as a people leader, building teams, clarifying ownership and expectations, and fostering collaborative ways of working with a pragmatic mindset and commercial awareness.

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 and team bonding
• Local sports facilities and theatre discounts and memberships

Ready to apply? 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.