Supply Chain Specialist

Company Description

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.

Essential Qualifications:

• 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: This section is applicable to onsite employees who are eligible for hybrid work location as specified by management and related policies. Guardant has 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.

The annualized base salary ranges for the primary location and any additional locations are listed below. This range does not include benefits or, if applicable, bonus, commission, or equity. Each candidate’s compensation offer will be based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, geography, experience, education, job-related skills, job duties, and business need. Primary Location: Redwood City, CA Primary Location Base Pay Range: $65,700 - $90,350 Other US Location(s) Base Pay Range: $55,845 - $76,798 If the role is performed in Colorado, the pay range for this job is: $59,130 - $81,315