Senior Manager, Biospecimen Management (Onsite)

Company Description

Guardant Health is a leading precision oncology company focused on helping conquer cancer globally through use of its proprietary blood 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 launched liquid biopsy-based Guardant360®, Guardant360 CDx and GuardantOMNI® tests for advanced stage cancer patients. These tests fuel development of its LUNAR program, which aims to address the needs of early stage cancer patients with neoadjuvant and adjuvant treatment selection, cancer survivors with surveillance, asymptomatic individuals eligible for cancer screening and individuals at a higher risk for developing cancer with early detection.

Job Description

The Senior Manager of Biospecimen Management is responsible for overseeing specimen management activities in support of Guardant Health Programs.  The Senior Manager may oversee staff consisting of Biorepository Technician(s), Biorepository Associate(s), Lead(s) and Supervisor(s). The Senior Manager is responsible for managing operational KPIs and assuring that the team is meeting goals and regulatory requirements. The Senior Manager demonstrates good judgment, sound analysis and decision making, the ability to remain professional and composed under pressure and the ability to communicate effectively across levels and functions. The Senior Manager complies with all applicable local, state and federal laboratory requirements and operates under the direction of the Laboratory Director and Director of Biospecimen Management.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides supervision of the Biospecimen Management Supervisor(s) and Lead(s), may supervise other Biospecimen Management personnel and daily procedures;
• Oversees writing and reviews SOP, performs other administrative duties including but not limited to: writing and reviewing employee performance evaluations, protocols, clinical trial sample tracking and equipment maintenance forms;
• Works closely with other department managers to develop and enhance processes/work efficiencies between the functional areas to ensure that SOPs and best practices for each department are met;
• Through training coordinator ensures the training and competency of new and existing laboratory personnel is up to date;
• Participates in audits and inspections;
• Monitors and tracks laboratory analytics;
• Represents the Biospecimen Management Department in cross-functional meetings;
• Manages and leads department projects and goals;
• Supports the Biospecimen Management team and is responsible for the daily operations of the laboratory including but not limited to scheduling, independently troubleshooting and resolving problems;
• May review and document routine preventive equipment maintenance;
• May perform training and competency evaluations for the Biospecimen Management staff; and
• Reports all quality and/or safety concerns to the Laboratory Director or Safety Officer.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Biomedical Laboratory Science, Clinical Science or related field;
• A minimum of seven years of Guardant Health Clinical Laboratory experience or equivalent high complexity and volume laboratory experience preferred;
• A minimum of five years of supervisory experience is preferred;
• Working knowledge of local, state, and federal laboratory regulations;
• Laboratory experience within the last year is preferred;
• Able to integrate and apply feedback in a professional manner;
• Ability to analyze and problem solve basic issues that impact lab operation;
• Strong project management abilities;
• Ability to work as part of a team;
• Strong computer skills;
• Ability to proactively communicate consistently, clearly, and honestly with internal employees, managers and customers as needed;
• Outstanding professionalism and leadership skills; and
• Ability to provide direct supervision to laboratory personnel.

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 scienc