Vice President, Strategic Research and Perspectives

About the role

This function will serve as Kaiser Permanente's enterprise hub for transformative ideas to advance KP's mission through strategy, industry influence, and public policy. The leader will have a deep understanding of the macro forces affecting healthcare, what KP's point of view is, and where there are opportunities for KP to lead the public dialogue in a differentiated way. The leader will be a thinker, writer, researcher, convener, and thought partner. This leader should combine external market expertise, strategic and economic disciplines, policy and regulatory experience, and internal and external communications and writing expertise. This person is disciplined, externally oriented, analytically grounded, and focused on helping KP explain its enterprise direction, long-term value, mission, and market perspective to influential audiences. The leader will bring together clinicians, researchers, policymakers, innovators, historians, market and strategy leaders, competitive intelligence partners, and external thought leaders to shape KP's perspective on the future of health care and advance the organization's mission. The leader will take in competitive intelligence outputs, market trends, policy signals, research insights, and external stakeholder perspectives; synthesize what they mean; and translate them into enterprise viewpoints, white papers, executive briefings, and convenings. This leader will engage market experts across the organization including enterprise strategy and business development and M&A leadership to understand the competitive market landscape