Head of People

About the role

This is a senior visible role at the heart of Cellular Origins. As Head of People youll lead the development of a people strategy that matches the ambition of our technology and youll make sure the way we hire grow and support people is as robust and scalable as the automation we build.

Youll balance big-picture thinking with hands-on work. One day you might be advising the CEO on future organisation shape the next you might be refining onboarding or sitting with a manager to untangle a complex people challenge. Youll enjoy being close to what is really happening in the business and turning insight into practical change.

You will also be a key steward of our culture as we grow. New colleagues are joining all the time bringing different backgrounds ideas and perspectives. Youll help turn that diversity into a strength keeping our environment collaborative delivery focused and kind as the organisation evolves.

As a member of the leadership team reporting directly to the CEO youll play a full part in setting direction and youll be a trusted discreet sounding board to colleagues across the company. What youll do Youll get to design and build a modern People function that fits a fast-growing engineering and science-led company with global practice that means youll:

• Shape and deliver an overall people strategy that supports sustainable growth covering organisation design workforce planning talent reward and development.
• Evolve how we attract assess and welcome new colleagues partnering with leaders to grow the team while protecting quality inclusion and the candidate experience.
• Support leaders to build high performing healthy teams through coaching clear frameworks and thoughtful approaches to performance feedback and development. Alongside this youll make sure our people practices show a strong visible focus on health safety wellbeing and duty of care as a natural part of how we work every day.

Qualifications :

About you

You are a people person and a business pragmatist. You care deeply about individuals and you also understand what it takes to build an organisation that can grow adapt and deliver on an ambitious mission. Youll bring experience of leading HR or People functions in a start-up or scale-up environment ideally in technology engineering or life sciences. Youll be comfortable acting as both architect and builder and you will have worked closely with senior leaders as a trusted partner translating business goals into people plans and knowing how to balance pace with care.

You might describe yourself as someone who:

• Leads with integrity and earns trust quickly through good judgement clarity and follow-through.
• Enjoys designing organisations and ways of working that help people do meaningful high-quality work without unnecessary complexity.
• Is highly collaborative takes time to listen and builds strong relationships across different disciplines and levels.

Experience in regulated or quality-focused environments will help as will familiarity with UK employment law reward employee relations and organisation development. Just as important is how you think how you lead and how you show up for people in moments that really matter.

We know that not everyone will match every point in a description. If this role excites you and you feel you can meet most of what we are looking for especially the leadership and relationship aspects we encourage you to apply. 

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 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!

Ready to apply

If you are a People leader who enjoys building things that last and you like the idea of creating a People function that underpins truly impactful science and engineering we would love to hear from you. Apply now to join Cellular Origins as our Head of People and help us build a place where talented people can do meaningful work that reaches patients and their families around the world.

Every application will be reviewed by the hiring team and will receive a response.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time