Job title: Sr Director, Enterprise Strategy & Business Development, Washington DC or Oakland
Company: Kaiser Permanente
Job description: Job Summary:The Enterprise Strategy & Business Development (ESBD) team at Kaiser Permanente is seeking dynamic leaders to drive enterprise strategy, growth, business development, and innovation. This role will be 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 senior leaders across the organization, as well as external stakeholders such as consultants, healthcare partners, investors, and industry experts, to foster alignment, drive strategic initiatives, and identify new business opportunities. The role will lead 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:
- 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.
- Directs the development and execution of strategies that support KPs mission by partnering with the SVP Leadership team to determine 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; overseeing strategy for and execution of business development activities and new opportunities for growth that align with the organizations long-term strategy; directing complex and multistakeholder strategy development processes; driving progress against strategic initiatives; and gaining a comprehensive understanding of KPs business models and the competitive landscape in each market to enable informed decision-making and strategic planning.
- Oversees the development and delivery of plans that gain support from executive leadership and governance bodies by overseeing market research to identify opportunities and threats that affect the KP growth agenda and mission; directing financial and economic modeling to support strategic initiatives; monitoring the effectiveness of existing strategies and proposing adjustments to executive leadership; proactively identifying, mitigating, and addressing risks associated with strategic plans; translating broad corporate strategies into clear, specific objectives and plans within each of the KP markets and in new markets; designing and presenting methodologies to gain support and approval from executive leadership; and serving as a key leader in overseeing and communicating strategic decisions and enterprise-wide pipeline activities over time to ensure transparency and alignment with the organizations strategic goals.
- Champions relationships with internal, external, and cross-functional stakeholders by proactively developing and maintaining 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; serving as a highly visible leader who actively engages with stakeholders throughout the organization to foster collaboration and alignment with the companys goals; building and sustaining a network of external peers, delivery system leaders, consultants, bankers, and other marketplace experts to stay informed about industry trends and opportunities; and ensuring the appropriate engagement of 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.
- Oversees the establishment and scaling of repeatable processes by developing methodologies for the identification, evaluation, prioritization, selection, negotiation, and execution of transactions, new business launches, and integrations; proactively monitoring the application of these methodologies to ensure that they are applied consistently and effectively across the organization; executing an approach to program, project, and performance management that integrates strategy with day-to-day operations; leveraging regional and national strategies and capabilities to promote and implement active sharing of new learnings and innovations; addressing unreliable, poorly controlled, ineffective, inconsistent, and duplicative processes and functions to improve overall performance; ensuring successful collaboration between regional departments and resources throughout the organization; and proactively implementing strategies to ensure ongoing compliance with local, state, federal, and other regulatory requirements.
- Champions the development and growth of businesses and partnerships by proactively identifying potential transactions and opportunities (e.g., M&A, partnerships, new business units, subsidiaries, and investments); overseeing new businesses from startup to self-sufficiency; developing a business development roadmap aligned with KPs strategy, driving growth and innovation; driving highly complex, multistakeholder investments and transactions in care delivery, health plans, and health care technology; developing and executing 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 directing functions across strategy, business development, and transformation to provide comprehensive solutions.
Expected salary:
Location: Washington DC
Job date: Sat, 19 Jul 2025 05:34:17 GMT
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