Senior Consultant, Business Development

Seattle Children's Hospital • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Seattle Children's is seeking a strategic and collaborative Senior Consultant to join our growing Strategy and Business Development team. This role reports directly to the Associate Vice President of Business Development and serves as a key right hand in evaluating, advancing, and monitoring strategic partnerships and collaborations that support the organization’s goal of improving child health. In this cross-functional role, the Senior Consultant will support the exploration, evaluation, and execution of business development initiatives. This includes conducting internal and external assessments, developing business cases, reviewing contracts and partnership-related agreements, and managing initiatives from early-stage exploration through implementation and ongoing monitoring. The ideal candidate brings strong experience in evaluating clinical and strategic partnership opportunities along with demonstrated experience managing multi-stakeholder initiatives through all phases of the partnership lifecycle. This is a unique opportunity for a results-oriented professional to collaborate with leaders across clinical, operational, legal, finance, and executive teams to shape innovative business development efforts that drive meaningful impact in pediatric healthcare and further Seattle Children’s strategic goals. Responsible for leading and managing strategic planning for focus program service lines with additional responsibility for reviewing, researching, assessing, analyzing and implementing strategic initiatives, projects and development initiatives. This involves the coordination of complex programs in the development and implementation of organizational goals and strategic objectives. Responsible for recommending financial and non-financial strategic alternatives. Assists in implementation of initiatives including project management, facilitation and operational planning. Manages tracking progress against the strategic plan including identification, analysis and monitoring of issues and outcomes. Prepares and delivers communication initiatives for intended audiences including executive team, board members, Operations Team, Strategic Planning Group and others as required. Relies on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Mentors and trains lower level S&BD staff to increase their contribution to departmental capability, capacity and added value for the organization, plus allows staff to advance in their careers. Additionally, they will train operations VPs and Directors on business development process to enhance the skill set of those outside of S&BD.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in healthcare administration, business administration, or healthcare related field.
• Minimum eight years in consulting, strategic planning, business development, project leadership in healthcare or related industries.
• Minimum six years working in complex health care setting in a leadership/management role.
• Demonstrated successful experience working with executive team, third party providers, governmental agencies, health plans, external vendors, consultants and other purchased services.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in healthcare administration, business administration or healthcare related field.
• Eight years progressively responsible experience in strategic planning, business development or project management.
• Significant and demonstrated expertise in leading complex change management in an multifaceted organizational setting.
• General knowledge of Lean, Six Sigma, CPI and or Kaizen.

Responsibilities

• Evaluating, advancing, and monitoring strategic partnerships and collaborations
• Conducting internal and external assessments
• Developing business cases
• Reviewing contracts and partnership-related agreements
• Managing initiatives from early-stage exploration through implementation and ongoing monitoring
• Leading and managing strategic planning for focus program service lines
• Reviewing, researching, assessing, analyzing and implementing strategic initiatives, projects and development initiatives
• Coordination of complex programs in the development and implementation of organizational goals and strategic objectives
• Recommending financial and non-financial strategic alternatives
• Assisting in implementation of initiatives including project management, facilitation and operational planning
• Managing tracking progress against the strategic plan including identification, analysis and monitoring of issues and outcomes
• Preparing and delivering communication initiatives for intended audiences including executive team, board members, Operations Team, Strategic Planning Group and others as required
• Mentoring and training lower level S&BD staff
• Training operations VPs and Directors on business development process

Benefits

• Seattle Children’s offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 403(b), life insurance, paid time off, tuition reimbursement, and more.
• Additional details on our benefits can be found on our website www.seattlechildrens.org/careers/benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees