The Business Consultant collaborates with sponsors, business owners and other key stakeholders to lead the implementation of strategic project/initiatives for Kaiser Permanente's Georgia Region.
Consulting & Collaboration
Establishes and maintains collaborative, results oriented working relationships with executive sponsors, business owners, peers, and other key stakeholders.
Develops and delivers presentations to executive sponsors and other key stakeholders; communicates complex information in a simple and compelling way, so that key stakeholders take action based on the results
Facilitates project/initiative team meetings to drive effective strategic planning, decision making, problem solving and conflict management.
Develop and management change management and communication plans to drive effective human change.
Strategic Thinking & Business Acumen
Demonstrates strong business acumen and healthcare industry expertise; understands organizational environment and impact on project initiative success.
Develops business cases and cost benefit analysis for assigned projects/initiatives.
Partners with business owners to develop project/initiative strategies, goals and metrics; manages outcome based scoreboards for projects/initiatives.
Demonstrates strong analytical skills; understands and uses data to drive decision making.
Identifies and shares best practices.
Project Management/Process Improvement
Use process improvement tools to assess current state and propose recommendations for improvement.
Develop and manage project charters, stakeholder maps, work plans, work flows, budgets, and deliverable/responsibility matrices.
Engage needed resources, define roles and responsibilities, and arrange for assignments of key project participants.
Balance schedules, scope and budget, renegotiating with business owners and sponsors as necessary.
Reports on deliverable completions, communicates critical paths and mitigates risks to mplementation; escalate issues as appropriate to ensure timely resolution of barriers.
Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications
-Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
-Outstanding consulting, facilitation and collaboration skills.
-Excellent strategic thinking and business acumen.
-Five (5) years of project management experience.
-Five (5) years of project leadership and/or management experience; demonstrated leadership ability, particularly as a collaborator and strong partner in shared leadership roles.
-Demonstrated ability to determine the key business issues and to develop appropriate action plans from multi-disciplinary perspectives,
-Experience working with senior level managers.
-Knowledge of health care operations, including primary care, specialty and ancillary services
Preferred Qualifications
-Two (2) years of experience in the healthcare industry.
-Two (2) years of change management experience.
-Master's Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in Accounting, Finance, Business, Health Care, Public Administration or related field
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen.
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