Supply Chain Contracts Lead

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

Job summary

A leading biopharmaceutical company in Melbourn is seeking a Supply Chain Contracts Lead to manage contracts with key suppliers and CDMOs. This role entails negotiating MSAs and aligning contracts with quality agreements, particularly in the context of cell therapies. Ideal candidates should have experience in commercial contracts in technology or pharma sectors, along with strong communication skills. The position offers an impactful opportunity in a growing team focused on innovative manufacturing solutions.

Benefits

Employer pension contribution of 10%

Free lunch and all-day refreshments

Private medical insurance

Enhanced family-friendly leave

Life insurance worth 6x salary

Electric car leasing scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Season ticket loan

Activities supporting healthy activities

Local sports facilities and theatre discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in commercial contracts, ideally in technology or manufacturing.
• Confidence working with legal documents and contractual concepts.
• Familiarity with supply chain and procurement priorities.

Responsibilities

• Support negotiation of MSAs, Supply Agreements, Statements of Work.
• Translate supply risk into commercial protections.
• Ensure contracts align with commercial models and regulatory expectations.

Skills

Commercial contracts

Negotiation

Supply chain understanding

Contractual concepts

Communication skills

Job description

• Technical Discipline: Science or Engineering

Company Description

Supply Chain Contracts Lead

Full time, onsite, Melbourn, Cambridgeshire.

Cell therapies are changing what is possible for patients with devastating diseases like cancer by re-programming their own immune systems to fight disease. To make these therapies available to many more people, they need to be manufactured reliably, at scale, and in a way that is commercially sustainable. That means building supplier relationships and contracts that truly support long-term, GMP-grade manufacturing. This is where Cellular Origins is focused, and where you could make a direct impact.

Cellular Origins, a TTP company, is enabling scalable, cost-effective and efficient manufacture of cell and gene therapies. Our robotic manufacturing automation platform is designed to reduce cost and labour, eliminate human error, and increase efficiency, without forcing therapy developers to re-invent their processes. As Supply Chain Contracts Lead, you’ll be close to the technology while shaping the commercial and contractual frameworks that make it work in the real world.

Job Description

About the role

This is a hands-on role at the intersection of supply chain, legal and technology. You’ll support, and where appropriate lead, contracting and commercial negotiations with key suppliers and CDMOs across equipment, consumables, software and services. You’ll turn complex technical, supply and regulatory requirements into clear, pragmatic contracts that protect the business while enabling us to move at the pace our customers need. You’ll become a go-to partner for colleagues who need to understand what our contracts allow, require and protect.

What you’ll do

Working closely with Supply Chain, Legal and Finance, you’ll get to:

• Coordinate and support negotiation of MSAs, Supply Agreements, Statements of Work and Quality or Technical Agreements with key suppliers and CDMOs.
• Translate supply risk and criticality into appropriate commercial and contractual protections, so contracts reflect real-world risk.
• Ensure supplier contracts align with our commercial models, customer commitments and regulatory expectations.
• Maintain a clear, accessible view of key terms, dates and obligations through concise contract summaries and a simple contract register.
• Support supplier business reviews, escalation and amendments, making sure outcomes are properly reflected in updated agreements.
• Work directly with technical and commercial stakeholders, helping them articulate requirements and turning these into contract language that works for everyone.

You’ll be joining at a build phase, so you’ll have the space to help shape how we manage supplier contracts as we scale.

Qualifications

About you

You’ll enjoy this role if you like being close to the technology and supply chain, and turning moving parts into clear, well-structured agreements.

You’ll bring

• Experience in commercial contracts, supplier contracts or commercial management, ideally in a technology, manufacturing, pharma or medical device setting.
• Confidence working with legal documents and familiarity with core contractual concepts such as liability, indemnity, warranties, IP, confidentiality, termination and service levels.
• Experience supporting or leading negotiations with suppliers, for example hardware, consumables, CDMOs, software or services.
• Familiarity with supply chain and procurement priorities, including lead times, MOQs, capacity, risk and cost drivers.
• Ability to work with Quality and Regulatory colleagues to align commercial contracts with technical and quality agreements.
• A pragmatic approach, comfortable working at pace and balancing competing requirements to find solutions that work.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to mark up contracts and explain key issues clearly to non-specialists.
• Organised and reliable habits in tracking versions, dates and obligations across multiple agreements.

If you like the idea of your contract work directly influencing how cell therapies can be manufactured and supplied at scale, this is a 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.