Enterprise Strategy & Business Development Senior Consultant

Kaiser Permanente • Oakland, CA

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About The Position

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. In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this senior individual contributor role is also responsible for building investment theses by using KP and external expertise to source deal flow and generate strategic insights; conducting investment transactions, including the review and negotiation of term sheets and transaction documents; reviewing portfolio investments through board participation and supporting portfolio companies with targeted value-add efforts; performing diligence for new investments including priorities, planning, and execution; and preparing insights from investment work for presentation to the Investment Committee, KP executives, and KPV Limited Partners. This includes working with KP Executives on specific investments (e.g., KP strategic needs, product evolutions, and future roadmaps); creating executive materials for investment recommendations; and presenting diligence, investment, and portfolio recommendations to leadership.

Requirements

• 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.

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 KP's mission by collaborating with more senior team members.
• Conducts strategy for and execution of business development activities and new opportunities for growth.
• Facilitates complex and multistakeholder strategy development processes.
• Documents progress against strategic initiatives.
• Gains a deep understanding of KP's business models to enable informed decision-making.
• Designs and executes plans that gain support from leadership by performing market research.
• Contributes to financial and economic modeling to support strategic initiatives.
• Documents the effectiveness of existing strategies.
• Identifies risks associated with strategic plans.
• Interprets broad corporate strategies into clear, specific objectives and plans.
• Proposes methodologies to gain support and approval from leadership.
• Reports strategic decisions and enterprise-wide pipeline activities over time.
• Drives relationships with internal, external, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Builds strong relationships with key business and functional partners.
• Interacts with stakeholders throughout the organization to facilitate collaboration.
• Sustains a network of external peers, delivery system leaders, consultants, bankers, and other marketplace experts.
• Engages 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.
• Documents the application of these methodologies to ensure that they are applied consistently and effectively across the organization.
• Implements an approach to program, project, and performance management that integrates strategy with day-to-day operations.
• Utilizes local strategies and capabilities to support and enable active sharing of new learnings and innovations.
• Recognizes unreliable, poorly controlled, ineffective, inconsistent, and duplicative processes and functions to improve overall performance.
• Applies 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.
• Supports new businesses from startup to self-sufficiency.
• Contributes to the creation of a business development roadmap aligned with KP's strategy.
• Drives growth and innovation.
• Conducts investments and transactions in care delivery, health plans, and health care technology.
• Implements a business development function that supports the long-term goals of the growing KP enterprise.
• Performs functions across strategy, business development, and transformation to provide comprehensive solutions.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Ambulatory Health Care Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree