Strategy Consultant IV, Medicare Products

Kaiser Permanente; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaiser Permanente in Georgia is seeking a Medicare Product Strategy Consultant to support development and execution of Medicare Advantage product and portfolio strategies. You will partner across market, actuarial, finance, clinical, operations, and sales to align with organizational goals.

You will lead planning initiatives, analyze market dynamics, and translate insights into actionable recommendations for leadership decisions, driving membership growth and financial sustainability.

Qualifications

• Minimum two (2) years of experience in project management, forecasting, planning, consulting, strategy development and/or execution, or a directly related field.
• Bachelor's degree plus four (4) years of strategic planning experience OR seven (7) years of experience in strategic planning or related field.

Responsibilities

• Supports development and execution of Medicare Advantage product and portfolio strategies.
• Leads product performance analyses and develops business cases and strategic recommendations.
• Analyzes market dynamics and translates findings into actionable insights for leadership decisions.
• Partners with market leadership to develop multi-year roadmaps balancing growth, affordability, member value, and financial sustainability.

Skills

Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management

Attention to Detail

Business Knowledge

Communication

Critical Thinking

Cross-Group Collaboration

Decision Making

Dependability

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Drives Results

Facilitation Skills

Health Care Industry

Influencing Others

Integrity

Learning Agility

Organizational Savvy

Problem Solving

Short- and Long-term Learning

Teamwork

Topic-Specific Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Health Care Administration, Public Health Economics, Finance, or related field

Job description

Georgia location only

Overview

The Medicare Product Strategy Consultant is a key position within the Medicare Product organization, responsible for supporting the development and execution of Medicare Advantage product and portfolio strategies that drive membership growth, market competitiveness, consumer experience and sustainable financial performance. This role serves as a strategic partner across market, actuarial, finance, clinical, operations, and sales organizations to support annual and multi-year product planning efforts aligned with organizational objectives.

The consultant leverages a strong understanding of the Medicare Advantage benefit development cycle, bid process, and regulatory environment to evaluate product opportunities, inform benefit design decisions, and support portfolio optimization strategies. Core responsibilities include leading product performance analyses, developing business cases and strategic recommendations, understanding competitive market dynamics, and translating all of this into actionable insights for leadership decision-making.

Additionally, the role partners closely with market leadership teams to develop and execute multi-year product roadmaps that balance growth, affordability, member value, and financial sustainability. The consultant leads planning initiatives, facilitates strategic discussions, monitors product performance against key objectives, and identifies opportunities to improve membership, retention, and financial outcomes.

Job Summary

Facilitates strategy development by defining moderately complex business problems and opportunities and identifying, weighing, and recommending alternative approaches. Performs moderately complex analysis and ensures 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. Assembles moderately complex proposals for projects and programs to ensure progress on deliverables and effective execution to produce high-quality business outcomes. Ensures implementation of updated processes to improve Return on Investment (ROI), service quality, and operations for initiatives across teams. Fosters collaborative partnerships with inter/intraorganizational and external partners and builds and develop trustships with key stakeholders.

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 communication 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 or 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.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Core)

• Ambiguity/Uncertainty Management
• Attention to Detail
• Business Knowledge
• Communication
• Critical Thinking
• Cross-Group Collaboration
• Decision Making
• Dependability
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support
• Drives Results
• Facilitation Skills
• Health Care Industry
• Influencing Others
• Integrity
• Learning Agility
• Organizational Savvy
• Problem Solving
• Short- and Long-term Learning & Recall
• Teamwork
• Topic-Specific Communication

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: (Functional)

• Applied Data Analysis
• Business Acumen
• Business Planning
• Business Process Improvement
• Business Relationship Management
• Business Strategy Leadership
• Financial Analysis
• Financial Market Research
• Methodological Appropriateness
• Presentation Skills
• Project Management
• Risk Assessment
• Stress Tolerance
• Time Management

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.

Preferred Qualifications

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