Supply Chain Specialist

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on guarding wellness and giving every person more time free from cancer. Founded in 2012, Guardant is transforming patient care and accelerating new cancer therapies by providing critical insights into what drives disease through its advanced blood and tissue tests, real-world data and AI analytics. Guardant tests help improve outcomes across all stages of care, including screening to find cancer early, monitoring for recurrence in early-stage cancer, and treatment selection for patients with advanced cancer. For more information, visit guardanthealth.com and follow the company on LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and Facebook.

About the Role:

The Supply Chain Specialist plays a critical role as the liaison between Guardant Health third-party suppliers as well as internal procurement and planning teams. This position will be responsible for managing and maintaining indirect and service purchase orders for accuracy and delivery schedules. The Supply Chain Specialist will oversee all indirect orders to suppliers while collaborating closely with internal departments to ensure timely material/services availability and cost management. Additionally, this role will work with the Guardant warehouse receiving team to manage receipt/invoice issues to ensure timely closure of orders.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Assist in the procurement of materials, equipment, and services at competitive prices.
• Create and process purchase requisitions and purchase orders (POs) and maintain accurate procurement records.
• Track and monitor delivery schedules to ensure timely fulfillment of orders.
• Communicate with suppliers to obtain delivery commitments, quotations, quality documents, resolve discrepancies and follow up on outstanding orders.
• Partner with Guardant Health warehouse and accounts payable teams for resolution of receiving and/or purchase order issues.
• Proactively monitor aged purchase orders, insufficient purchase order balance etc. to avoid unnecessary payment delays.
• Daily review of the indirect purchase requisition queue to ensure timely review and approvals by various Guardant Health departments.
• Support the Guardant Health procurement team with administrative tasks, supplier database maintenance, and reporting.
• Ensure compliance with Guardant Health internal policies and procurement procedures.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with an ability to present complex data effectively.
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Proficiency with ERP systems and Microsoft Office (Excel and Outlook required).
• Ability to work cross-functionally with different teams and departments to achieve business goals.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required
• Oracle Fusion experience preferred.

Hybrid Work Model: At Guardant Health, we have defined days for in-person/onsite collaboration and work-from-home days for individual-focused time. All U.S. employees who live within 50 miles of a Guardant facility will be required to be onsite on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays. We have found aligning our scheduled in-office days allows our teams to do the best work and creates the focused thinking time our innovative work requires. At Guardant, our work model has created flexibility for better work-life balance while keeping teams connected to advance our science for our patients.

For positions based in Redwood City, CA, the base salary range for this full-time position is $70,500 to $96,950. The range does not include benefits, and if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity.

Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including, but not limited to, job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. If you are selected to move forward, the recruiting team will provide details specific to the factors above.

Employee may be required to lift routine office supplies and use office equipment. Majority of the work is performed in a desk/office environment; however, there may be exposure to high noise levels, fumes, and biohazard material in the laboratory environment. Ability to sit for extended periods of time.

Guardant Health is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our hiring processes for candidates with disabilities, long-term conditions, mental health conditions, or sincerely held religious beliefs. If you need support, please reach out to [email protected]

A background screening including criminal history is required for this role. GH will consider qualified applicants with criminal arrest or conviction histories in a manner consistent with applicable law including but not limited to the LA County Fair Chance Policies and the Fair Chance Act (Gov. Code Section 12952).

Guardant Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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