Medicaid Project Portfolio Consultant - Kaiser Permanente : Job Details

The Medicaid Portfolio Governance & Administration team works with Executives, Leaders, and teams across the organization to:

• Ensure the structure, processes, and people are in place to execute on priority strategies and initiatives.
• Enable leadership awareness of progress and risks/issues so they are able to provide direction and support as needed.
• Act as a hub facilitating information exchange, connection, resource integration, and collaboration.

As part of the Medicaid Portfolio Governance & Administration team, the Medicaid Project Portfolio Consultant:

• Facilitates definition and maintenance of the annual portfolio of key Medicaid initiatives.
• Stands up, maintains, evolves, and facilitates adoption of project tooling and portfolio standards/processes.
• Prepares, publishes, and monitors quality of regular and ad hoc portfolio reporting for appropriate forums.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds relationships with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Conducts or oversees business-specific projects by applying deep expertise in subject area; promotes adherence to all procedures and policies.
• Serves as a lead consultant to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse stakeholders to drive the implementation of successful business initiatives and projects.
• Develops requirements, or leads a team of consultants in the development of requirements, for complex or specialized business, process, or system solutions.
• Provides expertise and drives the development and implementation of business initiatives, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state.
• Develops business strategy and ensures alignment and prioritization of organizational objectives and business initiatives.
• Serves as a lead advocate for continuous learning and professional development.
• Manages complex projects or project components.
• Leads change management activities associated with business initiatives.
• Performs complex data analyses to drive business initiatives.
• Participates in vendor management as required.
• Monitors compliance of work activities.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum two (2) years experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.
• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university and Minimum eight (8) years experience in consulting, project management, data analytics, operations or a directly related field OR Masters degree in Business, Public Health, or a directly related field and Minimum six (6) years experience in consulting, project management, data analytics, operations or a directly related field OR Minimum ten (10) years experience in consulting, project management, data analytics, operations or a directly related field.

Additional Requirements:

• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Business Acumen; Change Management; Negotiation; Creativity; Applied Data Analysis; Financial Acumen; Conflict Resolution; Managing Diverse Relationships; Process Validation; Project Management; Risk Assessment; Service Focus; Requirements Elicitation & Analysis

Preferred Qualifications:

• Three (3) years data analytics experience.
• Three (3) years experience working with advanced Excel functions including, formulas, pivot tables, vlookup, macros, etc.