Equipment Supply Chain Lead

What youll do

You will be the go-to person for the equipment that underpins Constellation deployments.

Youll get to:

Turn customer deployment plans into robust realistic equipment supply plans.

Own and maintain the equipment bill of materials (BOM) and configuration for Constellation deployments.

Classify and manage risk across the equipment BOM including critical components and long-lead items.

Identify and qualify backup suppliers for critical equipment and components reducing single points of failure.

Ensure every customer deployment has a controlled traceable and well-documented equipment configuration.

Help shape how we standardise platform configurations while still meeting customer and process needs. 

Contribute to how we manage obsolescence supplier changes and equipment lifecycle within a Quality Management System.

Integrate supplier quality into our processes in partnership with Quality including change control and deviations.

Work with Legal and our Supply Chain Contracts Lead on key equipment and strategic supplier agreements helping ensure commercial terms reflect equipment criticality lead times and supply risk.

You will be joining during a build phase so your work will directly influence how our supply chain functions and how smoothly our platforms land in customer facilities.

Qualifications :

About you

You will enjoy this role if you like owning complex hardware categories working side by side with engineers and building processes that balance control with pace.

You will bring:

Strong experience in equipment or hardware supply chain category management or technical procurement ideally in automation robotics capital equipment or similar.

Proven ability to work with engineering documentation such as BOMs drawings and specifications and translate these into clear supplier requirements.

Experience managing supply risk for critical components including dual sourcing criticality assessment and mitigation planning.

Confidence collaborating across Design NPI Procurement Quality Manufacturing and Field Operations. Experience working within or alongside a Quality Management System including change control deviations and supplier qualification.

Enjoyment of operating in a build-phase environment being hands-on pragmatic and keen to improve processes over time.

Comfort working at pace in a fast-evolving environment while maintaining appropriate control and traceability.

Willingness to work with or learn to work with legal contracts and supplier agreements.

If you like the idea of your supply chain decisions directly influencing how cell therapies can be manufactured at industrial scale this role gives you the chance to see that impact clearly.

Additional Information :

Cellular Origins is based on the TTP Campus within purpose-built sustainable offices labs and green surroundings 10 miles south of Cambridge. Our working culture encourages entrepreneurship shared ideas and collaboration while providing you the freedom to do your best work.

Our employee benefits include:

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 its lunchtime squash or football Zumba or our own rock band. Colleagues initiate new clubs and outings whenever they feel theres something missing! Local sports facilities and theatre discounts and memberships.

How to apply

If this sounds like the kind of challenge you would enjoy we would love to hear from you. Apply now to help build the equipment supply chain behind Constellation and play your part in bringing life-changing cell therapies to more patients faster.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time