Senior Project Manager

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Company Description

Cell therapies have been shown to cure devasting 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 enabling scalable, cost-effective and efficient manufacture of cell and gene therapies. Our technology addresses the challenges associated with manufacturing at scale with an elegant robotic manufacturing automation solution that reduces cost and labour, eliminates human error, and increases efficiency.

Job Description

We're looking for a Project Manager to join us on our mission to give all patients access to cell therapies. Reporting to the Programme Manager, you'll play a pivotal role in supporting the development teams, ensuring transparent and consistent delivery internally and externally to customers and partners. The role would suit an innovative, experienced and delivery focused individual with the drive and enthusiasm to push forward in a fast paced and challenging environment.

Working closely with technical leads, you will be expected to manage the full life cycle of product development projects, including:

• Start-up - working with engineering to develop a project brief.
• Initiation - producing plans for the project schedule, resource, communication, risk and quality.
• Execution - choosing the right delivery methodology for the project and supporting management of the team to 'get things done'.
• Monitoring and Control - reporting to ensure schedule, budgets, risk, quality, scope, changes etc., are under control.
• Closure - completing the documentation, learning the lessons and delivering the outputs and controls to ensure the benefits of a project are realised.

We're looking for a candidate with proven experience applying a range of key competencies essential for successful project delivery. The ideal applicant will demonstrate strong leadership and professionalism, with the ability to empower and inspire others to drive projects forward.

They should possess excellent team management skills, capable of motivating teams to meet objectives while resolving conflicts effectively. A solid grasp of stakeholder management is vital, including the ability to identify and engage stakeholders based on their influence and interests. The role also requires strong planning capabilities, including documenting project components and maintaining schedules. Financial management is crucial, with the ability to develop budgets and control both forecast and actual costs.

The successful candidate will also excel in quality management, ensuring outputs and processes meet stakeholder requirements, as well as risk and issue management, through the identification, assessment, and mitigation of project risks and issues. Lastly, a sound understanding of governance is required, maintaining clear structures of roles, responsibilities, and accountabilities to support effective project oversight and delivery.

Qualifications

• You will be educated to degree level (or equivalent), ideally in a STEM subject.
• Proven experience leading a project in a similar field; for example, manufacturing automation, instrumentation, consumer products
• Ideally some experience gained within pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or cell-therapy fields.
• Outstanding organisational ability, with a track record of successfully delivering complex systems on highly accelerated timescales.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and nurture strong and trusting relationships throughout an organisation and with external stakeholders and customers.
• Ability to assimilate and summarise complex information, picking out what is important and prioritising accordingly.
• Competent using a range of IT systems at an advanced level, e.g. MS Office and Project, Atlassian JIRA and Confluence, etc.
• Experience of working within an ISO 9001 Quality Management System, or similar, is desirable.

Additional Information

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 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
• 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.