🚨 Manufacturing Officer
📍 Cambridge | Operations | Animal Health
I’m hiring a Manufacturing Officer for a fast-growing animal health business that’s scaling quickly and doing genuinely meaningful work to reduce antibiotic use.
This is a hands-on manufacturing and operations role, ideal for someone with a strong chemistry background who enjoys pace, responsibility, and being close to the action.
🧪 About the business
This is a growing veterinary healthcare company developing innovative, sustainable products that improve animal health globally. The company is expanding its product portfolio and operational footprint, so the environment is fast-moving and change is constant.
If you’re inspired by impactful work and comfortable operating in a scaling environment, this role will suit you well.
🛠 The role
You’ll join the Operations team, working closely with the Head of Manufacturing and external manufacturing partners to ensure products are made to specification, on time, and at scale.
📦 Key responsibilities
- Coordinate manufacturing activity with Contract Manufacturing Organisations (CMOs)
- Book production slots and manage purchase orders
- Monitor production schedules and finished goods delivery
- Manage raw material and packaging availability
- Oversee quality checks and ensure products meet specifications
- Maintain batch records and manufacturing documentation using ERP systems
- Act as the day-to-day contact for CMOs, resolving issues quickly
- Drive continuous improvement across cost, quality, and efficiency
- Support R&D with new product introductions and technical requirements
- Work with design and commercial teams on packaging, demand, and forecasting
🧠 Skills & experience
Essential
- Degree in Chemistry or closely related discipline
- Background in animal health, FMCG, or CPG
- Strong understanding of quality systems
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, scaling environment
- Organised, proactive, and confident managing priorities
Must Have
- PhD in Chemistry or similar
- Experience working with CMOs
- Exposure to GMP or ISO environments
- ERP system experience
🔥 Personality & mindset
- Confident enough to keep operations moving when things get busy
- Calm under pressure and solutions-focused
- Genuinely motivated by the impact of the work
- Hands-on and commercially aware