Senior People Business Partner

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.

About the Role:

Guardant Health People Business Partners are responsible for helping business unit leaders and their leadership teams develop and implement a people and culture strategy that best supports their business needs. They act as coaches, trusted advisors, change agents, consultants and thought partners on all things talent within the business. They work closely with other teams within the People Team to perform their role and responsibilities - this includes Employee Experience, Total Rewards, Learning & Development, Talent Acquisition, People Operations and Employee Relations.

This Senior People Business Partner role is the ideal opportunity for someone who has extensive HR functional knowledge, and thrives in having multiple and different strategic interactions with business leaders and excels at facilitating annual talent activities (ex: performance management cycles, employee engagement surveys, etc).

The role is based out of our Palo Alto, location and requires in-office attendance 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday & Thursday).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Builds relationships with leaders to offer thought leadership on organizational and people-related strategy and execution

• Adopts the culture of the organization and embodies our values and leadership principles

• Develops a understanding of the business to appropriately guide and influence leaders on their talent agenda

• Applies expertise in the following areas: performance management, career planning, coaching, analysis of people data, compensation, complex employee relations issues, learning and development, and recognition programs.

• Leverages data and other metrics to proactively identify and present solutions based on business needs. Identifies and surfaces trends through both qualitative and quantitative data to help drive impact in the business

• Partners and drives results alongside other Centers of Excellence in the People Team (i.e. Employee Relations, Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, People Operations, and Learning & Development) to help the People Team implement solutions that support and scale the business

• Leads the people cycles throughout the year to include compensation reviews, performance evaluations, engagement survey action planning, talent reviews and calibrations and promotion evaluations

• BA/BS degree or equivalent practical experience

• 10+ years of HR experience creating measurable impact on a major business unit (preferably in a high-growth company) with at least 5 years of experience as a People Business Partner (preferably supporting C-suite leadership managing G&A functions)

• Demonstrated experience partnering with Senior Leadership (i.e. Vice President level)

• Demonstrates solid judgment and experience assessing risk relative to the business

• Ability to solve challenges and get to the root cause of any issue, no matter how complex. Design and quickly implement solutions that may cut across multiple disciplines.

• Experience influencing decision making

• Self-motivated and assertive with the ability to hunt down answers and drive solutions autonomously

• Equally comfortable partnering with employees and leadership and moving regularly between the tactical and strategic priorities.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills - must be an articulate and persuasive communicator.

• Displays strong business acumen - sees the big picture and operates with perspective

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 $120,800 to $163,100. 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 toPeopleteam@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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