Compliance Officer

As our Compliance Officer, you’ll lead the regulatory and compliance strategy across the business, making sure our technology, systems, and ways of working meet global regulatory expectations without slowing down innovation. You’ll give our teams the confidence that what they are building is not only technically brilliant, but also compliant, auditable, and ready to support therapies at commercial scale.

This role acts as a bridge between regulation and engineering. You’ll translate complex requirements into clear, workable guidance that supports the development and deployment of our cell and gene therapy manufacturing equipment. You’ll collaborate closely with teams across engineering, product, operations, and leadership, providing clear visibility of compliance risks and practical mitigation plans.

You’ll help us build a compliance function that feels like an enabler, not a brake, so people seek you out early, rather than only when there is a problem.

This will be an on-site based role at our campus in Melbourn, Cambridgeshire.

What you’ll do

You’ll get to shape how compliance works at Cellular Origins, embedding it into daily decisions, not just documentation. You’ll design the frameworks, policies, and training that keep us aligned to standards, while still giving our engineers room to innovate.

• Lead the development and ongoing management of our regulatory and compliance strategy across the business, covering ISO 9001, ISO 13485, GxP expectations and ESG requirements.
• Map applicable regulations, standards and ESG frameworks to our technology and operations, turning them into clear internal policies, governance processes and pragmatic guidance.
• Own and evolve internal policy and governance, ensuring decisions are aligned with compliance requirement.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to embed “compliance by design” into equipment, automation and software, including validation, documentation and data integrity expectations.
• Run compliance risk management from a regulatory perspective, maintaining risk registers, defining mitigations, and giving leadership a clear line of sight to key issues.
• Support and, where appropriate, lead internal and external audits, coordinating responses and managing remediation actions through to closure.
• Provide operational compliance support to teams across the business.
• Design and deliver training, communications and mentoring that build a strong compliance culture, so people understand not just what to do, but why it matters for patients.