Strategy Consultant V, Medicare Line of Business

About the role

The Medicare Strategy Consultant is a key position within the Medicare Markets Strategy and Operations team, responsible for aligning the market-level annual planning process with the broader Medicare line of business strategy and program-wide rate-setting objectives. Reporting to the Executive Director of Medicare Markets Strategy and Operations, this remote role collaborates with various cross-functional business partners, including market-based teams, actuarial, finance, strategic market planning, competitive assessment, and national product management.

Responsibilities

• Developing strategic plans, business cases, tracking performance milestones and contributing to leadership decision support materials
• Overseeing large cross-functional projects, coordinating Medicare multi-year planning, supporting business performance reviews, and contributing to ad hoc projects and programs specific to assigned markets
• Developing materials, framework and analytics that drive the successful completion of the Medicare business planning cycle and ensure effective knowledge sharing between markets and key functional areas
• Driving strategy development by defining complex business problems and opportunities and identifying, weighing, and selecting alternative approaches
• Performing moderately to highly complex analysis and driving interpretation of market data and tests hypotheses using advanced knowledge of qualitative and quantitative analytical tools to drive towards insightful and actionable insights for the business
• Driving the development and execution of complex projects and programs to drive deliverables and effective execution to ensure high-quality business outcomes
• Identifying opportunities to adapt processes to improve Return on Investment (ROI), service quality, and operations for cross-functional initiatives
• Fostering strategic partnerships across organizational lines and establishing trusting relationships to better navigate the diverse and complex needs of key stakeholders
• Promoting learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders
• Listening, responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; providing actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentoring junior team members
• Practicing self-leadership; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influencing team members within assigned team or unit
• Adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapting to and learning from change, challenges, and feedback
• Modeling team collaboration within and across teams
• Conducting or overseeing business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promoting adherence to all procedures and policies
• Partnering internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determining and carrying out processes and methodologies; solving complex problems; escalating high-priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitoring progress and results
• Developing work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinating and delegating resources to accomplish organizational goals
• Recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities; evaluating recommendations made; influencing the completion of project tasks by others
• Analyzing and interpreting market data by: developing and implementing a plan to address complex research questions and test hypotheses with advanced knowledge in one or more specialty areas of data collection and analysis; driving moderately or to highly complex quantitative and qualitative analyses and investigating alternative hypotheses; and driving interpretation of key findings, conclusions, and recommendations for the future for senior leadership
• Facilitating process improvement efforts by: identifying opportunities to adapt processes to improve return on investment (ROI), operations, service quality, and results for cross-functional initiatives; utilizing advanced knowledge of business operations to drive the implementation of best practices across functions; and facilitating adoption of best practices and future innovations
• Effectively managing projects and programs by: driving the development of complex project proposals, including establishing objectives, key stakeholders, milestones, and providing deep technical leadership across programs; driving progress on program deliverables in alignment with greater business strategy and key business outcomes across functions; refining existing methodologies, and identifying and implementing new methodologies to complete initiatives with little support; and driving the execution of project plan, and supporting high-quality outcomes
• Proactively maintaining open streams of communication by: fostering trusting relationships to better navigate the diverse and complex needs of stakeholders across the organizational landscape; identifying complex issues or risks to strategic program implementation and developing solutions to resolve them; fostering strategic partnerships across organizational lines to consult and influence the development and refinement of key priorities and strategy; and proactively and persuasively communicating strategic issues and recommendations to senior leadership, and across the organization
• Contributing to the development and execution of business strategy by: developing complex strategic plans based on business case and advanced knowledge in one or more specialty areas of health care marketplace; driving complex problem scoping and the processes and resources needed; developing alternative strategic options, and recommending the best option(s) based on complex problem scoping, external marketplace research, and analysis of organizational and external strategic approaches; selecting challenging business goals and the processes and resources needed to accomplish them; driving alignment around the strategic plan and intended outcomes, and finding opportunities for collaboration and synergy across functions; developing and implementing advanced strategies to mitigate complex barriers, constraints, and risks to execution; and driving strategic direction in response to a changing environment

Qualifications

• Minimum four (4) years of experience in project management, forecasting, planning, consulting, strategy development and/or execution, or a directly related field
• Minimum two (2) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Health Care Administration, Public Health, Economics, Finance, or related field AND minimum seven (7) years of experience in strategic planning, strategy facilitation, execution of large-scope strategic projects or directly related field OR minimum ten (10) years of experience in strategic planning, strategy facilitation, execution of large-scope strategic projects or directly related field

Preferred qualifications

• Two (2) years of experience working in a large matrixed organization
• Two (2) years of Health Care experience

Pay & schedule

• Pay range: $169,800 - $219,670 / year
• Schedule: Full-time, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
• Remote work setting; flexible worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy
• No travel required