Enterprise Strategy %Business Development Principal Consultant

This role is flexible with 3 days a week in the office and can be based out of either our Oakland, California offices or our Washington, DC offices.

The Enterprise Strategy & Business Development (ESBD) team at Kaiser Permanente is seeking dynamic team members to support and enable enterprise strategy, growth, business development, and innovation. This role is 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 cross‑functional teams across the organization, as well as external stakeholders such as consultants, healthcare partners, investors, and industry experts, to foster alignment, drive strategic initiatives, and enable new business opportunities. The role will support 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.

The Enterprise Strategy & Business Development (ESBD) team at Kaiser Permanente is seeking dynamic team members to support and enable enterprise strategy, growth, business development, and innovation. This role is 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 cross‑functional teams across the organization, as well as external stakeholders such as consultants, healthcare partners, investors, and industry experts, to foster alignment, drive strategic initiatives, and enable new business opportunities. The role will support 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.

• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds collaborative, cross‑functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influences, mentors, and coaches team members. Practices self‑leadership; creates, evaluates, and responds to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit or team members. Leads the adaptation to competing demands and new responsibilities;
  
  adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members.
• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying member and operational needs; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; develops and updates new procedures and policies. Gains cross‑functional support for objectives and priorities; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves highly complex issues; escalates and resolves issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines;
  
  coordinates, obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
• Creates and implements strategies that support KPs mission by collaborating with leadership to plan and implement 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; driving strategy for and execution of business development activities and new opportunities for growth that align with the organizations long‑term strategy;
  
  leading complex and multistakeholder strategy development…