Director, Managerial Consulting - Oakland, United States - Kaiser Permanente

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Job Summary:


Provide leadership and facilitation in the resolution of highly strategic and sensitive issues or projects of regional, statewide, cross entity or cross-functional and reports directly to senior leadership.

The incumbent acts as an advisor and thought partner by leading teams to identify, track and measure issues, project plans and associated risks for resolution and consolidation, providing expert level consulting capabilities to the functional area to realize leaders' strategic agendas.

Lead teams to gather data, researching and consolidate issues, summarizing information and making recommendations with relevant stakeholders to advance the senior leaders' agenda.

Incumbent routinely and proactively represents the executives' positions in meetings, committees and in developing integrated functional projects, communication plans and scorecards to measure effectiveness of initiatives.

On behalf of the executive, oversees the functional area operations including budget and strategic planning.

Maybe responsible to manage other executive/internal consultants and staff to proactively identify and resolve issues of strategic importance to the company.


Essential Functions:


  • Acts as an advisor or thought partner by structuring undefined issues for resolution, researching issues, summarizing information and working with relevant stakeholders to provide the executive with the information needed to make sound decisions.
  • Prepares individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; builds internal collaborative networks for self and others. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Demonstrates continuous learning; oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Stays up to date with organizational best practices, processes, benchmarks, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact.
  • Directs the work of project/program team members by overseeing the coordination of internal and/ or external resources based on the alignment of team member skills and project/program demands; driving the delivery and promotion of the strategic vision and objectives to team members; and overseeing the delivery of performance feedback to team members supervisors and leadership as appropriate.
  • Directs and oversees team(s) of consultants in the development of requirements for largescale, complex, or specialized business, process, or system solutions across business domain(s) by leveraging partnerships with stakeholders and crossfunctional teams as appropriate; providing guidance in the use of multiple business requirements gathering methodologies to identify business, functional, and nonfunctional requirements; and overseeing the development and documentation of comprehensive business cases to assess the costs, benefits, and ROI of proposed solutions.
  • Oversees the development and implementation of strategic business initiatives, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state by maintaining a expert understanding of how current processes impact business operations across multiple domains; developing and leveraging stakeholder partnerships to identify the operational needs and impact of requirements on upstream and downstream solution components; providing options and recommendations to executive management and business stakeholders on how to integrate solutions and deliverables with current systems and business processes across regions and domains; directing the identification and validation of value gaps and opportunities for process enhancements or efficiencies; and overseeing the establishment of appropriate governance and workgroup infrastructures to accomplish strategic outcomes.
  • Oversees the management of complex, crossfunctional projects and/or programs by ensuring the coordination of appropriate stakeholders; assembling teams and resources based on project needs and team member strengths; monitoring the development, analysis, and management of project/program plans; negotiating and managing the coordination of project/program scope, schedules, and resource forecasts; managing project financials and deliverables; proactively monitoring and identifying project/program/business initiative risks, issues, and trigger events which may impact longterm organizational business objectives; developing and implementing mitigation plans and strategies; and resolving risks or issues as appropriate.
  • Directs the proactive monitoring and identification of client, project, program, and/or business risks, issues, and trigg

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