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Overview
The Strategy Consultant III role will be responsible for (1) leading the evaluation and ideation of new strategic initiatives in the region and (2) supporting the region’s annual business cycle deliverables – examples include the region’s 5-year strategic plan and budget documents. This is a high-visibility role – consultants will partner closely with executive leadership across multiples teams within the organization to help deliver data-driven recommendations, create conceptual business cases for approval, and develop long-term strategic plans. A successful consultant on this team is able to balance multiple projects at one time, is comfortable working on ambiguous/complex problems that may not always have a clear answer or approach to solve and has high resilience for iterative work and/or work that may not move forward into implementation.
Job Summary
In addition to the responsibilities listed above, this position is also responsible for supporting business strategy and/or initiative planning by contributing to organizational strategy processes and coordinating across teams to facilitate key conversations; facilitating knowledge sharing across functions and entities to support strategic priorities; helping build out frameworks to facilitate strategy development by leveraging Strength Weakness Opportunity Threat (SWOT) and gap analyses to ensure that strategic opportunities are correctly identified; prioritizing strategic choices through enterprise processes and market operational plans to establish management incentives; aligning enterprise strategy plans and performance with operating priorities in markets and functions; and providing ongoing initiative management and prioritization in real time through performance monitoring using relevant tools (i.e., dashboards, scorecards, leader reviews).
Essential Responsibilities
TITLE: Strategy Consultant III, Strategic Planning & Analysis - KFHP Georgia
LOCATION: Atlanta, Georgia
REQNUMBER: 1335260
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.
Overview
The Strategy Consultant III role will be responsible for (1) leading the evaluation and ideation of new strategic initiatives in the region and (2) supporting the region’s annual business cycle deliverables – examples include the region’s 5-year strategic plan and budget documents. This is a high-visibility role – consultants will partner closely with executive leadership across multiples teams within the organization to help deliver data-driven recommendations, create conceptual business cases for approval, and develop long-term strategic plans. A successful consultant on this team is able to balance multiple projects at one time, is comfortable working on ambiguous/complex problems that may not always have a clear answer or approach to solve and has high resilience for iterative work and/or work that may not move forward into implementation.
Job Summary
In addition to the responsibilities listed above, this position is also responsible for supporting business strategy and/or initiative planning by contributing to organizational strategy processes and coordinating across teams to facilitate key conversations; facilitating knowledge sharing across functions and entities to support strategic priorities; helping build out frameworks to facilitate strategy development by leveraging Strength Weakness Opportunity Threat (SWOT) and gap analyses to ensure that strategic opportunities are correctly identified; prioritizing strategic choices through enterprise processes and market operational plans to establish management incentives; aligning enterprise strategy plans and performance with operating priorities in markets and functions; and providing ongoing initiative management and prioritization in real time through performance monitoring using relevant tools (i.e., dashboards, scorecards, leader reviews).
Essential Responsibilities
- Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members. Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.
- Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team.
- Analyzes and interprets market data by: developing and implementing a plan to address standard and non-standard research questions and test hypotheses with comprehensive foundational knowledge of data analysis; performing standard and non-standard quantitative and qualitative analyses and investigating alternative hypotheses independently; and interpreting key findings, collaborating on preparation of conclusions and recommendations for the future independently.
- Facilitates process improvement efforts by: implementing updated processes to improve return on investment (ROI), operations, service quality, and results for initiatives within a team; utilizing comprehensive knowledge of business operations to implement best practices within a team; and promoting adoption of best practices and future innovations.
- Effectively manages projects and programs by: assembling standard and non-standard project proposals, including establishing objectives, key stakeholders, milestones, projecting required resources and timelines independently; independently contributing to progress on project deliverables in alignment with greater business strategy within the team; utilizing existing methodologies to complete initiatives with support from manager; and independently contributing the execution of project plan by enacting assigned duties.
- Proactively maintains open streams of communication by: building trusting relationships with stakeholders; mitigating avoidable issues or risks to strategic program implementation independently; fostering collaborative partnerships primarily within the organization with infrequent outside contacts to develop and refine key priorities and strategy; and facilitating communication of strategic issues and recommendations across teams.
- Contributes to the development and execution of business strategy by: ensuring the delivery of business cases for strategic proposals with comprehensive foundational knowledge of health care marketplace; identifying the scope of the problem to be addressed and the resources needed; contributing to the identification of strategic options based on problem scoping; identifying challenging business goals and the processes and resources needed to accomplish them; promoting alignment around the strategic plan and strategic outcomes, and finding opportunities for collaboration and synergy within a team; applying standard procedures to mitigate standard barriers, constraints, and risks to execution; and contributing to the assessment of strategic direction in response to a changing environment independently.
- Bachelors degree in Business, Health Care Administration, Public Health Economics, Finance, or related field AND minimum two (2) years of experience in strategic planning, strategy facilitation, execution of large-scope strategic projects or a directly related field OR minimum five (5) years of experience in strategic planning, strategy facilitation, execution of large-scope strategic projects or a directly related field.
- Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Business Relationship Management
TITLE: Strategy Consultant III, Strategic Planning & Analysis - KFHP Georgia
LOCATION: Atlanta, Georgia
REQNUMBER: 1335260
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.
