National Channel Strategy Lead V

Job Summary

For this Managerial Consultant IV role on the Channel and Seller Strategy team, you will be analyzing and developing recommendations on compensation for Kaiser Permanente’s sales distribution channels, critical to driving membership growth. Over 90% of health insurance is sold via channel partners such as brokers, consultants and other long-standing and emerging channels.

The position involves assessing our partners to identify opportunities to grow leveraging compensation, monitoring KP’s position in the market, market dynamics and competitors, designing and costing compensation programs, evaluating the impact of our programs, and consulting with and presenting recommendations to leaders of our National Lines of Business and Sales & Account Management across KP. This is a new individual contributor position that will be working with other functional teams to advance KP’s channel partner compensation strategy and capabilities.

• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross‑functional stakeholders. Listens, responds to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership and mentors junior team members. Practices self‑leadership; creates and executes plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; influences team members within assigned team or unit.
  
  Adapts to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Models team collaboration within and across teams.
• Conducts or oversees business‑specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies. Partners internally and externally to make effective business decisions; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves complex problems; escalates high‑priority issues or risks, as appropriate; monitors progress and results. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates and delegates resources to accomplish organizational goals.
  
  Recognizes and capitalizes on improvement opportunities; evaluates recommendations made; influences the completion of project tasks by others.
• Serves as a lead consultant to ensure the alignment, buy‑in, and coordination of diverse stakeholders to drive the implementation of strategic business initiatives and projects/programs across multiple functional tracks or work streams by identifying and ensuring representation and inclusion of appropriate stakeholders; building rapport and partnerships with key stakeholder teams, third‑party vendors, and executive management; working with stakeholders to develop goals and set the prioritisation of deliverables;
  
  developing a menu of solutions for complex, competing, or ambiguous requests; discussing involvement of business processes (e.g. change management, communication) and facilitating decisions necessary for the delivery of business initiatives; communicating and resolving tough issues with stakeholders while maintaining an independent perspective; and making formal presentations and providing reports to executive‑level audiences.
• Drives business strategy, organisational alignment, and prioritisation of business initiatives by working closely with senior executives to facilitate the development, refinement, and articulation of the business strategy; defining, developing, and evaluating performance metrics, standards, and methods to establish business success; leading the development of strategic roadmaps for solution development and deployment; collaborating with senior cross‑functional stakeholders, often with competing/conflicting objectives to ensure cohesive and reachable metrics;
  
  refining strategic plans and performance metrics as appropriate; and managing complex initiatives or portfolio to ensure delivery of measurable results and alignment with strategic objectives.
• Leads the work of project/program team members by requesting and coordinating internal and/or external resources based on the alignment of team member…