Enterprise Strategy & Business Development Lead Consultant

Overview

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 relationships with cross-functional stakeholders. Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members. Practices self-leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit. Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Models team collaboration within and across teams.
• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies. Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals. Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
• Implements and executes strategies that support KP's mission by collaborating with leadership to implement short-term and long-term strategies and tactics that support KP's ability to achieve improved quality and outcomes, accelerated growth, increased relevance and influence across the United States, and ongoing financial sustainability; leading strategy for and execution of business development activities and new opportunities for growth that align with the organization's long-term strategy; coordinating complex and multistakeholder strategy development processes; assessing progress against strategic initiatives; and gaining a thorough understanding of KP's business models and the overall competitive landscape to enable informed decision-making.
• Designs and executes 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; assessing the effectiveness of existing strategies and suggesting adjustments to more senior team members; identifying and contributing to the mitigation of risks associated with strategic plans; translating broad corporate strategies into clear, specific objectives and plans; proposing and presenting methodologies to gain support and approval from leadership; and reporting strategic decisions and enterprise-wide pipeline activities over time to ensure transparency and alignment with the organization's strategic goals.
• Drives relationships with internal, external, and cross-functional stakeholders by 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 promote collaboration and alignment with the company's goals; sustaining a network of external peers, delivery system leaders, consultants, bankers, and other marketplace experts to stay informed about industry trends and opportunities; and facilitating 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.
• Develops repeatable processes by designing methodologies for the identification, evaluation, prioritization, selection, negotiation, and execution of transactions, new business launches, and integrations; assessing the application of these methodologies to ensure that they are applied consistently and effectively across the organization; implementing an approach to program, project, and performance management that integrates strategy with day-to-day operations; utilizing regional and national strategies and capabilities to encourage and facilitate active sharing of new learnings and innovations; identifying unreliable, poorly controlled, ineffective, inconsistent, and duplicative processes and functions to improve overall performance; and applying 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); coordinating new businesses from startup to self-sufficiency; creating a business development roadmap aligned with KP's strategy, driving growth and innovation; executing complex investments and transactions in care delivery, health plans, and health care technology; building 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 conducting functions across strategy, business development, and transformation to provide comprehensive solutions.

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