Strategy Consultant III (Dental) - Strategic Planning & Analysis

Kaiser Permanente; Portland (OR); Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Strategy Consultant III to lead the development of multi-year pricing strategies that drive membership growth in a dynamic environment. This high-visibility role involves collaborating with executive leadership, analyzing market data, and facilitating strategic initiatives across teams. The ideal candidate will possess strong project management skills, a knack for solving complex problems, and a passion for driving business outcomes. If you thrive in a collaborative setting and are eager to contribute to impactful strategies, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in strategic planning or 5+ years in related field.
• Experience in executing large-scope strategic projects.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own multi-year pricing strategies for membership growth.
• Analyze market data to support strategic recommendations.
• Facilitate process improvements and manage projects effectively.

Skills

Strategic Planning

Data Analysis

Project Management

Business Relationship Management

Market Intelligence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business

Health Care Administration

Public Health Economics

Finance

Job description

The Strategy Consultant III role will be responsible for (1) developing and owning KPNW's multi-year pricing strategies to support the Dental program’s membership growth, (2) supporting the region’s annual business cycle deliverables – including the region’s 3-year strategic plan, financial & membership growth recommendations, and (3) analyzing competitor and market intelligence to develop rate increase and membership growth recommendations that support senior leadership decisions.

This is a high-visibility role – partnering closely with executive leadership across multiple teams within the organization to help deliver data-driven recommendations that support senior leadership decisions.

A successful consultant has experience in membership growth, project management, is comfortable working on complex problems that may not always have a clear answer, approaches projects with curiosity and a winning spirit, and has strong facilitation and collaboration skills.

Note: Work location is remote (e.g., home address), per KP’s Authorized States Policy - Employees may be required to travel to a KP or customer site. Residence required in the primary location: 500 NE Multnomah St., Portland, Oregon 97232; however, this position may have visibility in all Kaiser Permanente authorized locations. Note: Compensation may differ based on the market.

Job Summary:

In addition to the responsibilities listed above, this position is also responsible for supporting business strategy and/or initiative planning by contributing to organizational strategy processes and coordinating across teams to facilitate key conversations; facilitating knowledge sharing across functions and entities to support strategic priorities; helping build out frameworks to facilitate strategy development by leveraging SWOT and gap analyses to ensure that strategic opportunities are correctly identified; prioritizing strategic choices through enterprise processes and market operational plans to establish management incentives; aligning enterprise strategy plans and performance with operating priorities in markets and functions; and providing ongoing initiative management and prioritization in real time through performance monitoring using relevant tools (i.e., dashboards, scorecards, leader reviews).

Essential Responsibilities:

• Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members. Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.


• Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team.


• Analyzes and interprets market data by: developing and implementing a plan to address standard and non-standard research questions and test hypotheses with comprehensive foundational knowledge of data analysis; performing standard and non-standard quantitative and qualitative analyses and investigating alternative hypotheses independently; and interpreting key findings, collaborating on preparation of conclusions and recommendations for the future independently.


• Facilitates process improvement efforts by: implementing updated processes to improve return on investment (ROI), operations, service quality, and results for initiatives within a team; utilizing comprehensive knowledge of business operations to implement best practices within a team; and promoting adoption of best practices and future innovations.


• Effectively manages projects and programs by: assembling standard and non-standard project proposals, including establishing objectives, key stakeholders, milestones, projecting required resources and timelines independently; independently contributing to progress on project deliverables in alignment with greater business strategy within the team; utilizing existing methodologies to complete initiatives with support from manager; and independently contributing the execution of project plan by enacting assigned duties.


• Proactively maintains open streams of communication by: building trusting relationships with stakeholders; mitigating avoidable issues or risks to strategic program implementation independently; fostering collaborative partnerships primarily within the organization with infrequent outside contacts to develop and refine key priorities and strategy; and facilitating communication of strategic issues and recommendations across teams.


• Contributes to the development and execution of business strategy by: ensuring the delivery of business cases for strategic proposals with comprehensive foundational knowledge of health care marketplace; identifying the scope of the problem to be addressed and the resources needed; contributing to the identification of strategic options based on problem scoping; identifying challenging business goals and the processes and resources needed to accomplish them; promoting alignment around the strategic plan and strategic outcomes, and finding opportunities for collaboration and synergy within a team; applying standard procedures to mitigate standard barriers, constraints, and risks to execution; and contributing to the assessment of strategic direction in response to a changing environment independently.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Business, Health Care Administration, Public Health Economics, Finance, or related field AND minimum two (2) years of experience in strategic planning, strategy facilitation, execution of large-scope strategic projects or a directly related field OR minimum five (5) 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 Relationship Management