We are seeking a highly motivated Senior Manager, Logistics who will manage clinical and commercial vein to vein logistics activities, focusing on autologous and allogeneic client programs at Cellares. The primary focus is on managing incoming patient apheresis and outgoing final drug product, import/export requirements and collaborating with third-party logistics companies. This position involves serving as the main point of contact for partners, ensuring on time, compliant, day-to-day shipment management, monitoring vendor performance through KPIs, and tracking budgets. In this highly visible role, the successful candidate will join the existing supply chain team team to coordinate activities across our manufacturing sites, labelling and distribution, and other key stakeholders to deliver our clients’ products. The position requires enthusiasm, passion, and attention to detail. The Sr. Manager will be responsible for all processes associated with delivery, receipt, and storage of patient apheresis and distribution of clinical and commercial cell therapy drug products that will be manufactured within a state-of-the-art multi-product cell therapy manufacturing facility.

This individual will play a critical role in the logistics processes ensuring appropriate controls, complete traceability, and efficient operations to support the production of cell therapy products through safe and compliant manufacturing operations according to cGMP requirements. This individual will lead different operations within the logistics space while providing strategic and operational efficiencies, cost savings, shipping accuracy and leadership actions. This position assures individual compliance with all FDA and regulatory agencies and applicable policies, regulations and certifications including training, documentation, standard operating procedures, and corporate policies. The Senior Manager will maintain a compliant, effective, safe and efficient operation that meets or exceeds site goals and objectives.

This is a multidisciplinary role & this individual will need the ability to interface with all levels of the organization, including Manufacturing, MS&T, Quality Assurance, QC, Process/Analytical Development, Supply Chain, Training, Engineering/Facilities, HS&E, and Finance.

The successful candidate should enjoy working in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment, and be prepared to tackle a broad selection of challenges as the company grows.

Cellares is the first Integrated Development and Manufacturing Organization (IDMO) and takes an Industry 4.0 approach to mass manufacturing the living drugs of the 21st century. The company is both developing and operating integrated technologies for cell therapy manufacturing to accelerate access to life-saving cell therapies. The company’s Cell Shuttle integrates all the technologies required for the entire manufacturing process in a flexible and high-throughput platform that delivers true walk-away, end-to-end automation. Cell Shuttles will be deployed in Cellares’ Smart Factories around the world to meet total patient demand for cell therapies at global scale. Partnering with Cellares enables academics, biotechs, and pharma companies to accelerate drug development and scale out manufacturing, lower process failure rates, lower manufacturing costs, and meet global patient demand.

The company is headquartered in South San Francisco, California with its commercial-scale IDMO Smart Factory in Bridgewater, New Jersey. The company is backed by world-class investors and has raised over $355 million in financing.