Enterprise Strategy & Business Development Principal Consultant

Description: Job Summary:

The Enterprise Strategy & Business Development (ESBD) team at Kaiser Permanente is seeking dynamic team members to support and enable enterprise strategy, growth, business development, and innovation. This role is responsible for shaping and executing short and long-term strategies, transactions and large-scale implementations that align with Kaiser Permanente's mission - improving quality, accelerating growth, enhancing relevance, and ensuring long-term financial sustainability.

-The position involves close collaboration with cross-functional teams across the organization, as well as external stakeholders such as consultants, healthcare partners, investors, and industry experts, to foster alignment, drive strategic initiatives, and enable new business opportunities. The role will support high-impact projects, including M&A, new venture development, strategic investments, growth and performance improvement strategies, and other transformative initiatives across care delivery, health plans, and healthcare technology.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influences, mentors, and coaches team members. Practices self-leadership; creates, evaluates, and responds to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit or team members. Leads the adaptation to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members.
• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying member and operational needs; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; develops and updates new procedures and policies. Gains cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves highly complex issues; escalates and resolves issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates, obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
• Creates and implements strategies that support KPs mission by collaborating with leadership to plan and implement short-term and long-term strategies and tactics that support KPs ability to achieve improved quality and outcomes, accelerated growth, increased relevance and influence across the United States, and ongoing financial sustainability; driving strategy for and execution of business development activities and new opportunities for growth that align with the organizations long-term strategy; leading complex and multistakeholder strategy development processes; evaluating progress against strategic initiatives; and gaining a comprehensive understanding of KPs business models and the overall competitive landscape to enable informed decision-making and strategic planning.
• Designs and implements plans that gain support from executive leadership by conducting market research to identify opportunities and threats that affect the KP growth agenda and mission; performing financial and economic modeling to support strategic initiatives; evaluating the effectiveness of existing strategies and suggesting adjustments to leadership; identifying and mitigating risks associated with strategic plans; translating broad corporate strategies into clear, specific objectives and plans; creating and presenting methodologies to gain support and approval from leadership; and communicating strategic decisions and enterprise-wide pipeline activities over time to ensure transparency and alignment with the organizations strategic goals.
• Drives relationships with internal, external, and cross-functional stakeholders by proactively building and maintaining strong relationships with key business and functional partners (e.g., leaders from health plans, finance, IT, Regional, Permanente, Risant, KPMF, and other national functions) to ensure alignment and support across all levels of the organization; engaging with stakeholders throughout the organization to foster collaboration and alignment with the companys goals; cultivating a network of external peers, delivery system leaders, consultants, bankers, and other marketplace experts to stay informed about industry trends and opportunities; and promoting the appropriate engagement of internal and external parties in all activities, including 3rd party consultants, investment bankers, communications/GR, legal, compliance, finance, and other functions critical to the successful business development initiatives.
• Drives the development of repeatable processes by designing methodologies for the identification, evaluation, prioritization, selection, negotiation, and execution of transactions, new business launches, and integrations; monitoring the application of these methodologies to ensure that they are applied consistently and effectively across the organization; executing an approach to program, project, and performance management that integrates strategy with day-to-day operations; utilizing regiional and national strategies and capabilities to encourage and facilitate active sharing of new learnings and innovations; assessing unreliable, poorly controlled, ineffective, inconsistent, and duplicative processes and functions to improve overall performance; and implementing strategies to ensure ongoing compliance with local, state, federal, and other regulatory requirements.
• Develops and grows businesses and partnerships by identifying potential transactions and opportunities (e.g., M&A, partnerships, new business units, subsidiaries, and investments); leading new businesses from startup to self-sufficiency; designing a business development roadmap aligned with KPs strategy, driving growth and innovation; leading highly complex investments and transactions in care delivery, health plans, and health care technology; developing and implementing a business development function that supports the long-term goals of the growing KP enterprise (including KFH/HP, KPMF, Risant, and other new businesses); and executing functions across strategy, business development, and transformation to provide comprehensive solutions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university AND minimum eight (8) years of experience in business administration, healthcare administration or a directly related field, OR Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university AND minimum six (6) years of experience working for a management consulting firm, investment fund, or investment bank.
• Minimum five (5) years of leadership experience with or without direct reports.
• Minimum six (6) years of experience building and developing high-performing teams.
• Minimum six (6) years of experience building and/or executing a wide range of enterprise strategies, or strategic investments, ventures, or partnerships.
• Minimum six (6) years of experience managing complex programs, deal diligence, and/or integrations.
• Minimum six (6) years of experience developing agendas and materials for executive and/or board audiences.
• Minimum six (6) years of experience handling sensitive information with utmost discretion and confidentiality.
• Minimum three (3) years of leadership experience within a matrixed organization with or without direct reports.

Additional Requirements:
Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or related field.
• Six (6) years of experience in corporate, partnership, and/or relationship management in new business start-up including health systems, physicians, and other diversified businesses.

Primary Location: California,Oakland,Ordway
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Workdays: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri
Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
Job Schedule: Full-time
Job Type: Standard
Worker Location: Flexible
Employee Status: Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE-PO-01|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Specialty: Enterprise Strategic Consulting
Department: Po/Ho Corp - Strategy Implementation - 0308
Pay Range: $222600 - $287980 / year Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location.
Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time
Flexible: Work location is on-site at a KP location, with the flexibility to work from home. Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. At Kaiser Permanente, equity, inclusion and diversity are inextricably linked to our mission, and we aim to make it a part of everything we do. We know that having a diverse and inclusive workforce makes Kaiser Permanente a better place to receive health care, a more supportive partner in our communities we serve, and a more fulfilling place to work. Working at Kaiser Permanente means that you agree to and abide by our commitment to equity and our expectation that we all work together to create an inclusive work environment focused on a sense of belonging and wellbeing.

Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status. Submit Interest