Enterprise Strategy & Business Development Senior Consultant - Washington D.C. or Oakland, CA

Enterprise Strategy & Business Development Senior Consultant - Washington D.C. or Oakland, CA

Join to apply for the Enterprise Strategy & Business Development Senior Consultant - Washington D.C. or Oakland, CA role at Kaiser Permanente

Enterprise Strategy & Business Development Senior Consultant - Washington D.C. or Oakland, CA

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Position is located in Washington D.C. only. If you are not within a daily commutable distance, you must be willing to relocate. Please indicate on your resume.
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.
  

• Promotes learning in others by proactively providing and/or developing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members; builds relationships with cross-functional/external stakeholders and customers. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; proactively provides actionable feedback to others and to managers. Pursues self-development; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; leads by influencing others through technical explanations and examples and provides options and recommendations. Adopts new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; champions change and helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Facilitates team collaboration to support a business outcome.
• Completes work assignments autonomously and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area and business knowledge to generate creative solutions; encourages team members to adapt to and follow all procedures and policies. Collaborates cross-functionally and/or externally to achieve effective business decisions; provides recommendations and solves complex problems; escalates high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Supports the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; identifies resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines. Identifies, speaks up, and capitalizes on improvement opportunities across teams; uses influence to guide others and engages stakeholders to achieve appropriate solutions.
• Executes strategies that support KPs mission by collaborating with more senior team members to apply 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; conducting strategy for and execution of business development activities and new opportunities for growth that align with the organizations long-term strategy; facilitating complex and multistakeholder strategy development processes; documenting progress against strategic initiatives; and gaining a deep understanding of KPs business models to enable informed decision-making.
• Designs and executes plans that gain support from leadership by performing market research to identify opportunities and threats that affect the KP growth agenda and mission; contributing to financial and economic modeling to support strategic initiatives; documenting the effectiveness of existing strategies; identifying risks associated with strategic plans; interpreting broad corporate strategies into clear, specific objectives and plans; proposing 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 organizations strategic goals.
• Drives relationships with internal, external, and cross-functional stakeholders by building 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; interacting with stakeholders throughout the organization to facilitate collaboration and alignment with the companys 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 appropriately engaging 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 developing methodologies for the identification, evaluation, prioritization, selection, negotiation, and execution of transactions, new business launches, and integrations; documenting 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 local strategies and capabilities to support and enable active sharing of new learnings and innovations; recognizing 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 documenting potential transactions and opportunities (e.g., M&A, partnerships, new business units, subsidiaries, and investments); supporting new businesses from startup to self-sufficiency; contributing to the creation of a business development roadmap aligned with KPs strategy, driving growth and innovation; conducting investments and transactions in care delivery, health plans, and health care technology; 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 performing functions across strategy, business development, and transformation to provide comprehensive solutions.
  

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university AND minimum six (6) years of experience in business administration, healthcare administration or a directly related field, OR Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university AND minimum four (4) years of experience working for a management consulting firm, investment fund, or investment