Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary tests, vast data sets and advanced analytics. The Guardant Health oncology platform leverages capabilities to drive commercial adoption, improve patient clinical outcomes and lower healthcare costs across all stages of the cancer care continuum. Guardant Health has commercially launched Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx, Guardant360 TissueNext™, Guardant360 Response™, and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients, and Guardant Reveal™ for early-stage cancer patients. The Guardant Health screening portfolio, including the Shield™ test, aims to address the needs of individuals eligible for cancer screening.

Job Description

About the Role:

The Associate Corporate Development Director is responsible for supporting the overall corporate development function for Guardant Health. This person will be responsible for proactively shaping Guardant’s corporate development strategy to help the Company maintain its leadership position in the industry by identifying industry trends, maintaining relationships with relevant external partners, as well as sourcing, negotiating, structuring, and executing strategic acquisitions/investments across all of the Company’s geographies and businesses. S/He will collaborate with the Company’s founders and other members of the Company’s executive management team to identify the Company’s strategic trajectory and opportunities for inorganic growth and changes.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the Company’s growth strategy through identification, assessment and execution of potential M&A, investments and JVs
• Support a robust and comprehensive process to identify and evaluate potential opportunities, which includes a rigorous idea generation and screening process that will bring quality acquisition and investment ideas to the Company’s executive management team
• Collaborate with the Founders and the Business Unit Leaders to think about corporate development opportunities in a progressive, systematic and routine fashion. Build relationships with each business unit to keep an ongoing flow of ideas that is aligned with business units’ objectives
• Partner with business leaders before, during and after the M&A processes to ensure the deals make strategic sense, fit with forward-looking business plans, and are integrated smoothly and fully optimized
• Support cross-functional teams in developing acquisition business case analyses and executing and interfacing with Finance, Accounting, Legal, Tax, HR and other departments of the Company to ensure seamless deal execution
• Evaluate and execute other strategic initiatives such as joint ventures, divestitures, licensing and partnership activities

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Corporate Development or M&A at a comparable healthcare company or Investment Bank. Experience in Product, R&D, or Marketing a plus
• MBA or PhD degree with technical background in genomics, therapeutics, or oncology preferred
• Relevant experience to execute all aspects of transactions including experience in M&A negotiation, execution and integration
• Growing knowledge of biotech and/or medical device industry, understanding of genomics, cancer, and/or diagnostics a big plus
• Experience working in a demanding environment with highly motivated and driven professionals
• Ability to handle projects with multiple workstreams, with proven leadership success over a wide variety of functional business problems
• Superior analytical and problem solving skills, with demonstrated intellectual and analytical rigor
• Ability to structure and manage complex projects and processes with multiple stakeholders at both senior and junior levels
• Excellent presentation skills, including strong oral and writing capabilities; ability to clearly communicate compelling messages to senior managers
• Ability to travel 10% - 20% to conferences and meetings

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Additional Information

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 Palo Alto, CA or Redwood City, CA, the base salary range for this full-time position is $144,800 to $196,000. 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 Peopleteam@guardanthealth.com

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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