Vice President, State Government Relations

Job Summary

The Vice President, State Government Relations is the senior-most enterprise leader responsible for Kaiser Permanentes state government relations strategy and operations across all current and future markets. As a member of the Public Affairs leadership team and reporting to the Senior Vice President, Government Relations, this role leads Kaiser Permanentes state legislative, political, coalition, and stakeholder engagement strategies, including leading and directly managing the network of market-based government relations leaders responsible for advancing the organizations priorities across the states in which it operates.

The Vice President serves as Kaiser Permanentes principal enterprise leader for state legislative engagement and is responsible for building and maintaining the relationships, coalitions, and influence necessary to shape favorable operating environments for the organization. This leader represents Kaiser Permanente with governors, legislative leaders, elected officials, state agencies, state trade associations, coalition partners, and other influential stakeholders while ensuring alignment across markets on enterprise priorities and strategies.

The Vice President oversees, state legislative intelligence, state political analysis, state stakeholder engagement strategy, and state government affairs operations. This leader ensures Kaiser Permanente maintains a comprehensive understanding of legislative, political, and regulatory developments across existing operating markets at the state level while also assessing emerging opportunities, risks, and competitive dynamics in prospective growth markets. The role serves as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, translating complex external dynamics into actionable enterprise strategies and recommendations.

Working in close partnership with market Public Affairs leaders, Community Affairs, Communications, Policy & Regulatory Affairs, and Permanente Medical Group leaders, the Vice President leads the development of coordinated strategies to advance legislative priorities, strengthen Kaiser Permanentes reputation, and improve operating conditions across current and future markets. The Vice President also partners closely with Advocacy and Government Relations Communications leadership to establish strategic priorities, define engagement objectives, identify stakeholder mobilization needs, and develop coordinated approaches to advancing legislative and political priorities.

While Advocacy provides campaign, grassroots, grasstops, and stakeholder activation capabilities, the Vice President, State Government Relations is responsible for identifying legislative and political opportunities and challenges, establishing priorities, and ensuring advocacy efforts are aligned to enterprise and market objectives. A critical responsibility of the role is proactively building Kaiser Permanentes visibility, credibility, and influence in state capitals across the country.

The Vice President develops long-term engagement strategies with governors offices, legislative leadership, state agencies, trade associations, coalition partners, and other key stakeholders to position Kaiser Permanente as a trusted healthcare leader and thought partner, ensuring relationships and credibility are established well before legislative or regulatory challenges arise. The Vice President is also responsible for building and maintaining relationships with national organizations, governors associations, legislative leadership organizations, healthcare stakeholders, advocacy groups, and trade associations whose engagement is critical to success at the state level.

These relationships provide insights into emerging legislative trends, political dynamics, and stakeholder priorities that shape state operating environments across Kaiser Permanente markets. The role is accountable for creating a modern, enterprise-wide state government relations capability and One KP operating model that enables Kaiser Permanente to anticipate legislative and political developments, strengthen relationships with policymakers and stakeholders, build effective coalitions, influence legislative outcomes, and align market and enterprise activities around shared priorities.

This includes establishing common standards, governance, reporting, issue management processes, legislative intelligence capabilities, and ways of working that improve coordination, visibility, and execution across all Kaiser Permanente markets while preserving the local relationships and expertise essential to success.

• Lead Kaiser Permanentes enterprise state government relations strategy and leads and manages a team of market-based Government Relations leaders to advance shared legislative, political, and business priorities.
• Design, implement, and continuously evolve a One KP state government relations operating model that aligns enterprise and market teams around shared priorities, establishes clear…