Head of HR

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Cellular Origins

Cell therapies have been shown to cure devastating and previously untreatable diseases like cancer by re-programming the patient's own immune system. Giving more patients access to these life-saving therapies requires a revolution in manufacturing and process automation.

Cellular Origins, a TTP company, is leading this revolution. Our proprietary technology tackles the challenges of large-scale production with an elegant robotic automation system that cuts costs, reduces labour, eliminates human error, and boosts efficiency.

Do you want to join the revolution? We've trebled the team to 60-strong over the past 9 months and need to continue this strong growth. We are seeking a Head of HR to drive this rapid growth and help us build a business that brings life-changing therapies to patients and their families.

Head of HR

As Head of HR, you'll lead the development and implementation of a comprehensive people strategy, aligned with the company's mission and goals; most notably, a rapid and sustainable expansion of the business.

Your extensive understanding of people and organizations will be invaluable as you cultivate an evolving, collaborative culture, with a focus on delivery. You will embrace the challenge of doing this within the context of new people joining every week, bringing a diversity of ideas and perspectives. Your responsibilities will include overseeing significant recruitment, effective onboarding, and the development of scalable internal systems, policies, and processes.

Driven by a commitment to sustainable growth of the business and care for people, you will support leaders in maintaining a high-performance and positive work environment, and you will craft pathways for learning that foster personal development and align with Cellular Origins' mission.

As a member of the leadership team reporting directly to the CEO, you will actively help shape the company's direction and offer discreet and insightful counsel to leaders.

This is somewhere to really make your mark, working in a challenging and impact-driven venture, to define the future of cell therapy manufacturing. Are you ready to join the mission?

Requirements

• Educated to degree level and intellectually agile; will thrive in an environment with bright and committed people
• Significant experience of effective HR business partnership; business literate and able to translate the needs of the business into a well-executed people strategy
• Prior experience of start-up HR leadership strongly preferred
• Leads confidently through capability and integrity
• Pragmatic decision-making that weighs advantages and disadvantages, aligns with priorities, and mitigates risks
• Deep expertise in organization design, organization effectiveness, and coaching
• A creative mindset; enjoys innovating and shaping new ways of operating
• Highly collaborative and thrives on building relationships; takes time to listen, recognizes the value of others, and excels at building relationships throughout the company
• Demonstrates the energy, resilience, and patience required to work in a dynamic environment and overcome obstacles; comfortable with ambiguity and embraces change

The above list outlines our ideal candidate, but we know some of you may not apply unless you qualify for all requirements. We believe in the power and importance of diversity, both for our community and the success of our business, so please apply if you meet most of our listed capabilities.

Benefits

Cellular Origins is part of TTP Group, an employee-owned business. It is based on the TTP Campus, within purpose-built sustainable offices, labs and green surroundings, 10 miles south of Cambridge. TTP Group takes a long-term approach to investment and has been at the forefront of bioprocess automation for over 20 years. Our working culture encourages entrepreneurship, shared ideas and collaboration, while providing you the freedom to do your best work.

Our employee benefits include:

• Annual profit-related bonus
• 25 days holiday
• Employer pension contribution of 12% of pensionable pay
• 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
• An activities and community fund 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.