Consumables Supply Chain Lead

Awerian Ltd; Melbourn; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A life sciences company located in Melbourn is seeking a Consumables Supply Chain Lead to oversee the supply chain for its innovative Constellation® platform. The role involves defining consumables requirements, managing suppliers, and ensuring compliance with quality standards. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in materials supply chain management, especially in regulated environments. This position offers a unique opportunity to impact how cell therapies are manufactured and reach patients faster.

Benefits

Employer pension contribution of 10% of salary

Free lunch and refreshments

Private medical insurance

Enhanced family friendly leave

Life insurance worth 6x salary

Electric car leasing scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Community support for healthy activities

Qualifications

• Strong experience in consumables or materials supply chain, ideally in regulated environments.
• Experience with sterile single-use consumables impacting quality compliance.
• Demonstrated experience in risk-based supply management.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain consumables bill of materials for the platform.
• Classify risk and manage continuity strategies for consumables.
• Support compliance of Quality and Technical Agreements with suppliers.

Skills

Consumables or materials supply chain management

Risk-based supply management

Cross-functional collaboration

Product-contact consumables knowledge

Cost modelling

Working with Quality teams

Job description

Full time, on-site, Melbourn, Cambridgeshire.

Cell therapies are redefining what is possible in medicine, helping patients with conditions that were once untreatable. For these therapies to reach everyone who needs them, the way we manufacture them has to change. That means getting serious about how every bag, filter and sterile assembly is sourced, managed and delivered into GMP manufacturing. This is where Cellular Origins is focused, and where you could make a big impact.

At Cellular Origins, a TTP company, we are developing Constellation®, a robotic automation platform that brings advanced automation into GMP manufacturing environments. By making cell and gene therapy production scalable, reliable and cost-effective, we aim to unlock access for many more patients. As our Consumables Supply Chain Lead, you will take ownership of the consumables supply that underpins this new generation of manufacturing.

Job Description

What you’ll do

You will be the go-to person for consumables across the Constellation® platform.

• Define and maintain the consumables bill of materials (BOM) and approved item set for the platform.

• Classify risk and manage continuity strategies for critical consumables and suppliers or CDMOs.

• Support the definition, maintenance and compliance of Quality and Technical Agreements (QTAs) with key suppliers and CDMOs.

• Turn deployment and throughput plans into actionable demand and supply plans that Operations and suppliers can execute against.

• Ensure Field Operations and customer-facing teams have clear visibility of approved consumables, kit contents, lead times and constraints.

• Capture learnings from platform deployments and customer use, such as consumption patterns, failure modes and waste drivers, and feed these back into planning and requirements.

• Support cost modelling, making sure consumables economics are fully understood as part of our revenue and commercial model.

• Work with Legal and our Supply Chain Contracts Lead on key consumables and CDMO agreements, helping ensure commercial terms reflect supply realities and risk.

• Play a key role in how we qualify suppliers, design Quality and Technical Agreements, manage change control and support multi-generation platform strategy.

You will be joining at a build phase, so you will have real influence over how we do things and how the function grows.

Qualifications

About you

You will enjoy this role if you like owning a category end to end and working closely with technical teams to make the right trade-offs on risk, cost and performance.

You will bring:

• Strong experience in consumables or materials supply chain, category management or technical procurement, ideally in bioprocessing, pharma, medical devices or similar regulated environments.
• Experience with product-contact and/or sterile single-use consumables and their impact on quality and regulatory compliance.
• Demonstrated experience in risk-based supply management, including criticality assessment, dual sourcing and shelf-life or expiry management.
• Confidence working with process and engineering documentation, and with ERP item management and BOM structures.
• Experience working with or alongside Quality and Regulatory teams, including change control, deviations, supplier qualification and QTAs.
• The ability to support basic cost modelling and unit economics for consumables, and to provide structured inputs to Finance and Commercial teams.
• Enjoyment of cross-functional work and operating in a hands-on build phase.
• Comfort working at pace in a fast-evolving environment, balancing pragmatism with appropriate control.
• Willingness to work with, or learn to work with, legal contracts and supplier agreements.

If you like the idea of your supply chain expertise directly influencing how cell therapies are manufactured at scale, this role will give you a meaningful, visible platform

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:

• 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. Colleagues initiate new clubs and outings whenever they feel there’s 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 consumables supply chain behind Constellation® and play your part in bringing life‑changing cell therapies to more patients, faster.