Description: Job Summary:

In addition to the responsibilities listed above, this position is also responsible for championing business strategy and/or initiative planning by envisioning new organizational strategy processes and guiding leadership strategy conversations; overseeing leadership decision making by providing thought leadership and leveraging expert knowledge across the organization of the external marketplace and relevant tools (i.e., dashboards to track metrics) to instill a common vision across the organization; championing collaboration in strategy community of practices by driving knowledge sharing across functions and entities to identify the right strategic priorities; developing highly complex frameworks to advance strategy development by leveraging Strength Weakness Opportunity Threat (SWOT) and gap analyses to ensure that strategic opportunities are correctly identified; making key strategic decisions setting enterprise processes and market operational plans to establish management incentives; creating guidelines and rules across the organization to enable others to create consistent enterprise strategy and performance plans; and owning the execution of initiative management and prioritization across the organization.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Builds organizational capacity and prepares high potentials for growth opportunities and advancement; builds collaborative networks inside and outside the organization for self and others. Provides framework for soliciting and acting on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Models and drives continuous learning and oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; stays current with industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Acts as a thought leader on industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; shares best practices within and across teams to drive improvement. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning cross-functional resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact across teams.


• Oversees the operation of multiple units and/or departments by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment allocation and completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and/or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Engages strategic, cross-functional business units to champion and drive support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and ensures resolution of escalated issues. Sets and communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; obtains and distributes resources. Anticipates and removes obstacles that impact performance; addresses performance gaps and implements contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives; serves as a subject-matter expert and trusted source to executive leadership; provides influence and consultation in the development of the larger organizational or business strategy.


• Analyzes and interprets market data by: championing the data collection approach and analysis of highly complex or critical research questions and test hypotheses; shaping highly complex or critical quantitative and qualitative analyses and investigating alternative hypotheses; and utilizing key findings, conclusions, and recommendations for the future to amend or confirm overall strategic business plans.


• Facilitates process improvement efforts by: championing year over year process improvement to achieve return on investment (ROI), operations, service quality, and results goals aligned with long term business strategy; championing the innovation and implementation of best practices across the organization; and championing the adoption of best practices and future innovations across teams.


• Effectively manages projects and programs by: communicating with senior leadership about project details such as project objectives, key stakeholders, milestones, projecting required resources and providing deep technical leadership across company-wide programs; overseeing progress toward key goals and deliverables and resolving barriers across teams in alignment with greater business strategy; championing use of new methodologies to ensure teams project completion, and long term progress toward greater organizational goals; and shaping project outcomes, goal success, and facilitating long term organizational learning.


• Proactively maintains open streams of communication by: navigating the leadership landscape with political sensitivity to foster strategic relationships with key stakeholders and act as a champion for their diverse and complex needs; coaching and leading others to the creative and timely resolution of issues or risks to project success; serving as an expert strategic partner to coach and lead senior leadership to develop and refine key priorities and strategy; and driving the decisions around complex strategic issues and recommendations with senior leadership, using compelling communication and political sensitivity.


• Contributes to the development and execution of business strategy by: finalizing state-of-the-art strategic proposals for company-wide initiatives based on business case, expert knowledge of health care marketplace, and business acumen; championing complex problem scoping across the organization, and providing expert consultation on the processes and resources needed; providing expert consultation on applying strategic options, and making key recommendations based on complex problem scoping, external marketplace research, and analysis of organizational and external strategic approaches; championing challenging business goals across the organization, and providing thought leadership on processes and resources needed to accomplish them; championing teams organizational alignment around the strategic plan and intended outcomes, and finding opportunities for collaboration and synergy between organizational objectives; championing state-of-the-art strategies to mitigate highly complex or critical barriers, constraints, and risks to execution; and championing the team to assess and adjust strategic direction in response to a changing environment.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum eight (8) years of experience in project management, forecasting, planning, consulting, strategy development and/or execution, or a directly related field.


• Minimum five (5) years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.


• Bachelors degree in Business, Health Care Administration, Public Health, Economics, Finance, or related field AND minimum eleven (11) years of experience in strategic planning, strategy facilitation, execution of large-scope strategic projects or a directly related field OR minimum fourteen (14) years of experience in strategic planning, strategy facilitation, execution of large-scope strategic projects or a directly related field.

Additional Requirements:

• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Business Acumen; Business Planning; Business Process Improvement; Applied Data Analysis; Financial Analysis; Financial Market Research; Business Relationship Management; Market Knowledge; Project Management; Risk Assessment; Time Management; Methodological Appropriateness; Business Strategy Leadership; Stress Tolerance; Presentation Skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Eight (8) years of experience working in a large matrixed organization.
• Five (5) years of Health Care experience.
• Master's Degree in Business, Health Care Administration, Public Health, Economics, Finance, or related field.
• Five (5) years of experience in a leadership role with direct reports.

Primary Location: California,Oakland,1950 Franklin
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-NCAL-09|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level: Director/Senior Director
Specialty: Strategy Consulting
Department: Oakland Reg - 1950 Franklin - Rgnl Mg Admn-Executive Admin - 0206
Pay Range: $218200 - $282370 / year The ranges posted above reflect the location in the job posting. The salary range may vary if you reside in a different location or state than the location posted.
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 a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status. Submit Interest

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