Equipment Supply Chain Lead

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

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Melbourn is seeking an Equipment Supply Chain Lead to manage the supply chain for their innovative Constellation® automation platform. This role involves creating effective supply plans, ensuring equipment availability, and managing supplier relationships. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in equipment supply chain management, including procurement, risk management, and collaboration with engineering teams. You will help bring life-changing cell therapies to patients more efficiently.

Benefits

Employer pension contribution of 10%

Free lunch and refreshments

Private medical insurance

Enhanced family friendly leave

Life insurance 6x salary

Electric car leasing scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Local sports facilities discounts

Qualifications

• Strong experience in equipment or hardware supply chain ideally in automation or robotics.
• Proven ability to translate engineering documentation into supplier requirements.
• Experience managing supply risk with dual sourcing and criticality assessment.

Responsibilities

• Turn customer deployment plans into robust equipment supply plans.
• Own and maintain the equipment bill of materials (BOM) for deployments.
• Identify and qualify backup suppliers for critical equipment.

Skills

Equipment supply chain management

Technical procurement

Collaboration across teams

Change control experience

Risk management for components

Job description

• Technical Discipline: Science or Engineering

Company Description

Equipment Supply Chain Lead

Full time, onsite, Melbourn, Cambridgeshire

Cell therapies are already changing what is possible for patients with devastating diseases like cancer, by reprogramming their own immune cells to fight disease. To bring these treatments to many more people, they need to be manufactured reliably, at scale, and in real GMP environments. That only works if the right automation equipment is in the right place, at the right time, and under control. That is where you come in.

At Cellular Origins, a TTP company, we are building Constellation®, a first‑of‑its‑kind robotic automation platform for cell and gene therapy manufacturing. It connects existing bioprocess tools into a scalable, reliable and cost‑effective manufacturing system. As Equipment Supply Chain Lead, you will build the supply engine that makes this platform deployable, repeatable and ready for commercial scale in customer facilities.

Job Description

What you’ll do

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

You’ll 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:

• 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 equipment supply chain behind Constellation® and play your part in bringing life‑changing cell therapies to more patients, faster.