Strategy Consultant IV, Delivery System Strategy & Innovation

Atlanta, GA, United States

Description:

Technical Summary Statement:

The Strategy Consultant IV role will support the market's service areas, and work with operational leaders in the area, as well as the internal Delivery System Strategy team, to understand service delivery needs, gaps, and drive long-range strategy. The Consultant will work to drive data-driven decisions for the delivery system, identifying needs, developing business cases for capital investment, and leading the development of capital business cases from inception through approval - at both the Georgia market and National level. Key business partners include Capital Projects, Operations, Real Estate, Finance, IT, Strategic Planning, Design Consulting & Execution, Clinical Implementation, Strategic Market Planning, and Market Executives.

Job Summary:

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is also responsible for planning clinical or administrative systems supporting care delivery within geographic business units and service lines (entire enterprise, region, market, service area), including: identifying or being informed of a deficiency in a critical delivery system or service line; validating the deficiency using relevant analytics tools and methods; identifying and building strategies and business cases for capital projects; participating and actively contributing to the decision making process by developing and evaluating various decision options; and translating the external environment and consumer/industry trends to support care delivery planning.

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.

Analyzes and interprets market data by: developing and implementing a plan to address moderately complex research questions and test hypotheses with advanced knowledge of data collection and analysis; performing moderately complex quantitative and qualitative analyses and investigating alternative hypotheses; and ensuring interpretation of key findings, conclusions, and recommendations for the future.

Facilitates process improvement efforts by: ensuring the implementation of updated processes and beginning to identify opportunities to adapt processes to improve return on investment (ROI), operations, service quality, and results for initiatives across teams; utilizing moderately advanced knowledge of business operations to ensure the implementation of best practices across teams; and encouraging adoption of best practices and future innovations.

Effectively manages projects and programs by: assembling project moderately complex proposals, including establishing objectives, key stakeholders, milestones, projecting required resources and timelines; ensuring progress on project deliverables in alignment with greater business strategy across a function; utilizing existing methodologies to complete initiatives with little support; and ensuring the execution of project plan, contributing to high-quality outcomes.

Proactively maintains open streams of communication by: building and developing trusting relationships with stakeholders by navigating the organizational landscape; identifying moderately complex issues or risks to strategic program implementation and ensuring that they are resolved or escalated; fostering collaborative partnerships with inter/intraorganizational and external partners to develop and refine key priorities and strategy; and proactively communicating strategic issues and recommendations to senior leadership and across their function.

Contributes to the development and execution of business strategy by: developing moderately complex strategic proposals based on business case and advanced knowledge of health care marketplace; assessing the scope of the problem to be addressed and the resources needed; identifying strategic options based on problem scoping; recommending challenging business goals and the processes and resources needed to accomplish them; ensuring alignment around the strategic plan and intended outcomes, and finding opportunities for collaboration and synergy within a function; ensuring application of strategies to mitigate moderately complex barriers, constraints, and risks to execution; and assessing and adjusting strategic direction in response to a changing environment.

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum two (2) years of experience in project management, forecasting, planning, consulting, strategy development and/or execution, or a directly related field.

Bachelors degree in Business, Health Care Administration, Public Health Economics, Finance, or related field AND minimum four (4) years of experience in strategic planning, strategy facilitation, execution of large-scope strategic projects or directly related field OR minimum seven (7) 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; Applied Data Analysis; Financial Market Research; Business Relationship Management; Project Management; Risk Assessment; Time Management

Preferred Qualifications:

Two (2) years of experience in health care delivery, case management, or Medicaid.

One (1) year of experience working in a large matrixed organization.

Primary Location: Georgia,Atlanta,Regional Office - 9 Piedmont

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-GA-01|NUE|Non Union Employee

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Specialty: Strategy Consulting

Department: Regional Office - 9 Piedmont - Strategic&Dlivry Sys Planning - 2808

Pay Range: $110500 - $143000 / 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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