Consultant III
Kaiser Permanente
- Location
- Corona, CA
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Senior
Skills
About this role
In this role, t he Consultant III will be joining a team committed to driving operational excellence and fostering collaborative partnerships to support the success of our projects and initiatives within Health Plan Operations, specifically Health Plan Member Services. This role requires a unique blend of project management skills that drive results, data analysis expertise that informs decision-making, and the ability to bring people together to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders. Our team strives to ensure that our front lines staff and partners have the support they need to thrive in their roles as they support our customers who interact with the Member Services Contact Center. To be successful, the Consultant III will leverage project management skill sets, process improvement principles, and data analytical tools such as Excel and Power BI. Furthermore, this role will involve working with Microsoft Power Platform business applications such as Power Apps and Power Automate to enhance effectiveness and efficiency. Our goal is to deliver solutions that promote efficiency, effectiveness, and overall success for our organization and our members. If you are a motivated self-starter with a passion for process improvement and data analysis, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity and become a part of our innovative and dynamic team.
Job Summary
Serves as part of a consulting team to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse stakeholders to drive the implementation of successful business initiatives and projects. Provides insight and supports the development and implementation of business initiatives, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state. Supports strategic planning and organizational alignment and prioritization of business initiatives. Manages moderately complex projects or project components, participates in change management activities, and performs data analyses in support of business initiatives. Supports vendor management as required. Monitors compliance of work activities by ensuring business plans and team members adhere to relevant policies and procedures.
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. Serves as part of a consultant team to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse stakeholders to drive the implementation of successful business initiatives and projects within a functional track or workstream by identifying and ensuring representation and inclusion of appropriate stakeholders; building rapport and partnerships with stakeholder teams, third party vendors, and senior management; working with stakeholders to develop goals and set the prioritization of deliverables; identifying and escalating tough stakeholder issues while maintaining an independent perspective;