The Senior Vice President works within the overall context of Northern California Regional and National strategy to assure that Kaiser Permanente is positioned to optimize performance in terms of quality, service, and affordability. The ability to deliver high levels of customer satisfaction and member retention is the key performance focus of the local market. At the same time, in order to maintain market leadership, the Area Manager must ensure to maintain a fiscally sound enterprise capable of generating required financial returns.

The Senior Vice President must develop and execute customer-focused business and operations strategies that respond to unique market factors such as size, demographics, competitors, employer characteristics and segmentation strategy, and targeted consumer expectations. These plans must effectively integrate with, influence, leverage, and be consistent with Regional and National strategies, investments, approaches, processes and capabilities. The plans also must support Community Benefit and other community outreach and support activities in the market area.

A key driver of local market success is the ability of the Senior Vice President to partner with The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) in Northern California and Labor. TPMG is the sole provider of medical services and medical office/key ancillary department management in Northern California. The local market is the focus of efforts to improve member services and directly impacts economic viability and market sustainability. The Senior Vice President must work closely with TPMG and Labor to establish mutual performance expectations. These expectations need to be based on local competitive benchmarks and targeted for market-leading performance. These performance expectations will drive the strategy and requirements of numerous operational areas including medical service operations, external provider affiliations and relations, quality and service initiatives, and medical services and provider contracting.

The Senior Vice President is also charged with assessing local market opportunities and needs and then utilizing, communicating, and sharing this information so that these opportunities are realized. The position is the primary interface with local government and community bodies; the Senior Vice President must develop strong, positive relationships with these key stakeholders.

• Ensures high levels of customer satisfaction and member retention by investing in, structuring, and directing operations to meet customer needs and by reinforcing a culture of excellence in customer service


• Ensures the integration of quality, service and efficiency improvements into day-to-day operations


• Ensures the delivery of high quality, integrated patient care and the effective use of resources by building strong, performance-based relationships with TPMG and Labor


• Maintains a fiscally sound enterprise that generates financial returns at targeted levels through effective business practices and sound financial arrangements


• Enhances Kaiser Permanente's social contribution by effectively guiding direct and indirect community benefit investments and by building a strong community presence to meet health care needs of the members


• Assures effective execution of business strategies by aligning human resource strategies with business needs, by recruiting and developing a high-performance leadership team, and by developing a climate which builds employee commitment and reinforces high performance and customer service, and supports diversity


• Supports the success of the enterprise by effectively contributing to and utilizing national strategies and capabilities, actively sharing new learning and innovation, and by assuring business practices are consistent with Kaiser Permanente's Business Fundamentals


• Ensures the successful implementation of, promotes and operationalizes the Labor-Management Partnership throughout the organization. Achieves key LMP initiatives and ensures the demonstration of LMP behaviors throughout the organization. Ensures Labor participation in appropriate decision making forums and committees


• Participates in Regional and sometimes National committees


• Consistently supports compliance and the Principles of Responsibility (Kaiser Permanente's Code of Conduct) by maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of information, protecting the assets of the organization, acting with ethics and integrity, reporting non-compliance, and adhering to applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, accreditation and licenser requirements (if applicable), and Kaiser Permanente's policies and procedures

• Minimum seven (7)years experience in managing a complex organization through a transition in its technology or business environment


• Minimum ten (10) years in Sr. Leader in Hospital Operations with at least five (5) years as a chief executive and managing in an integrated health care delivery system.

• A graduate degree in business administration, health care administration, or a related field

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• Strategic understanding necessary to deal with the health care delivery systems of the future
• Thorough understanding of financial issues and delivery systems trends
• Understanding and commitment to diversity
• Understanding of integrated management models
• Demonstrated success in managing in a complex, managed care environment is desirable
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively in a business partnership with clinical, business, physician, and labor leaders
• Experience with integrating systems and services to more efficiently maximize service and to support the organizations mission and goals
• Demonstrated experience with both strategy and operations
• Demonstrated experience working with physicians in a managed care environment. Specific experience with PHOs, IPAs, group practices, and foundation models would be of great value
• Experience managing with physicians who have joint accountability
• Successful management experience in business outside of the direct health care delivery system environment is acceptable and will be given serious consideration
• Experience managing in a diverse environment (internally and with our members)
• Demonstrated strategic and program planning skills in a managed care environment is desirable
• Financial planning and management skills are necessary
• The ability to balance strategic development and day-to-day operation responsibilities
• Demonstrated skills in team building and organizational development
• Communication skills characteristic of an executive who excels in communicating in a variety of formal and informal presentation settings, large and small, both inside and outside the organization, and issuing cogent and consistent written messages that build confidence and achieve desired outcomes.
• Excellent problem solving and negotiating skills
• Demonstrated ability to impact outcomes using influencing skills
• Demonstrated ability to function collaboratively in a multi-entity partnership environment

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