Enterprise Strategy & Business Development Senior Consultant
Primary Location Oakland, California
Worker Location Flexible
Job Number 1352005 Date posted 04/17/2025
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Description:
Essential Responsibilities:
Position is located in Oakland, CA, VA, MD, D.C.
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 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.
Minimum Qualifications:
- 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 bank.
- Minimum one (1) year of leadership experience with or without direct reports.
- Minimum two (2) years of experience building and developing high-performing teams.
- Minimum two (2) years of experience building and/or executing a wide range of enterprise strategies, or strategic investments, ventures, or partnerships.
- Minimum two (2) years of experience managing complex programs, deal diligence, and/or integrations.
- Minimum two (2) years of experience developing agendas and materials for executive and/or board audiences.
- Minimum two (2) years of experience handling sensitive information with utmost discretion and confidentiality.
Additional Requirements:
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, or related field.
- Two (2) years of experience in corporate, partnership, and/or relationship management in new business start-up including health systems, physicians, and other diversified businesses.
- Two (2) years of experience in managing complex transactions within healthcare delivery.
- One (1) year of experience in healthcare.
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: $166100 - $214940 / 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: No
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
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
