Contracts Specialist (Onsite, or Hybrid Option)

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 Contracts Specialist will support the legal contracts team in a fast-paced, high-growth healthcare technology environment. This position shall manage the company’s contracts with business partners and vendors. This position drafts and negotiates a variety of contracts and supports the development of resources, including templates, negotiation guides, and training materials.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage incoming contract requests, reviewing and processing of all agreements
• Draft and redline agreements, including non-disclosure agreements, consulting agreements, SaaS agreements, master services agreements, laboratory services agreements, statements of work, change orders, amendments, and purchase orders
• File, manage, and track executed agreements within Guardant’s contract management system (CMS) repository
• Support and maintain utilization of the CMS; work with external vendor on implementation of process improvements 
• Prepare summary reports and dashboards as requested
• Provide training on contracts process, including new hire, ad-hoc training, lunch & learns
• Manage submission of policy updates using document management system
• Identify and implement for the legal team efficiencies, scalability, and consistency through the use of technology
• Partner with members of the Commercial Legal Compliance teams to facilitate efficient and productive workflow and respond to legal and business needs of the organization
• Establish positive and productive relationships with contract requestor(s), internal stakeholders, and senior leadership involved in contract process
• Assist the legal team on a variety of tasks, projects, processes, and initiatives, as requested
• Provide a high-quality service level to all internal and external customers ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and interpretations of contract language, as needed

Qualifications

• 4+ years of legal or paralegal experience, preferably working directly with contract law.
• Must have the ability to read, analyze and interpret legal documents and to effectively present information to business partners and management
• Must be able to work independently and use judgment, within defined practices and policies, regarding contractual matters
• Must have expertise with legal contracts and documents
• Demonstrated ability to work and communicate effectively
• Must have thorough working knowledge of computer software, including word processing, email and database programs
• Understands key business drivers and uses this understanding to accomplish work
• Has strong understanding of processes, procedures and systems used to accomplish the work and recognizes downstream impact on other functional areas
• Proficient with tools and processes that support work conducted by functional area
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Strong communications, problem-solving, analytical thinking skills
• Detail oriented yet can see broader picture for department and organization
• Ability to meet multiple deadlines, with a high degree of accuracy and efficiency
• Strong project management skills
• Demonstrate ability to interact in a collaborative manner and at a professional level with clients at all levels throughout the organization
• Excellent organizational skills required
• Demonstrate a positive attitude, the ability to work with others, be self-motivated requiring limited supervision and a desire to learn

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