Kaiser Permanente · 3 weeks ago
Regional President - Mid-Atlantic States
Washington, DC
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
15+ years expKaiser Permanente is seeking a Regional President for the Mid-Atlantic States market. This role is responsible for setting and achieving both short- and long-term strategies, overseeing care delivery, and ensuring operational excellence across the region.
Health CareHospitalMental HealthNon ProfitPersonal Health
Responsibilities
Drive operational excellence by applying national standards, high-reliability operating models, and disciplined performance improvement to deliver quality, service, access, and affordability
Execute business and operational plans that strengthen growth, expand capacity, improve clinical quality and patient experience, enhance financial performance, and support community needs across the entire continuum of care. Owns the market-s P&L, managing a budget to support performance and growth, in collaboration with the health plan and medical group
Optimizes the total cost of care for services delivered to KP members in the market
Drive innovation, transformation and performance improvement initiatives that achieve growth, affordability, service, and quality objectives in partnership with the Health Plan and PMG
Develops a multi-year strategy in alignment with the overall ICC portfolio in collaboration with the PMGs and National Health Plan
Translates national and market strategic goals into operational plans (e.g., care transformation, digital health, workforce initiatives)
Drives day-to-day operational excellence through national standards, high-reliability operating models, performance improvement, transformation, and efficient resource deployment for quality, service, access, and affordability
Provide executive oversight to ensure the market meets all quality, regulatory, and accreditation requirements across all care settings
Drives delivery system planning and capital planning processes to include facilities and IT, aligned with the market-s strategic plan
Leverages resources and capabilities by engaging National Functions to deliver on market needs (e.g., national strategy, health plan, IT, to deliver health plan products)
Serves as the face of the market, collaborating with Health Plan leaders to establish and leverage effective relationships in the community with business, government, and community leaders that support initiatives to grow membership and market share
Supports and manages the Labor Strategy to optimize opportunities for partnership with unions, mitigate risks of disruption, realize sustainable labor/value equation (costs/quality and productivity), and maintain commitment to a robust, engaged workforce
Builds relationships with leaders of healthcare systems in the local market to deliver care
Develops a high performing leadership team, building leadership capacity and bench strength
Drives and owns building a sustained, engaged, and committed workforce and high performing culture that supports KP-s mission and enterprise/market/local objectives
Qualification
Required
Minimum fifteen (15) years of broad experience, including strong leadership and management
Bachelor-s degree required
Experience around building high performing teams and a culture of accountability along with in-depth knowledge and expertise in contracting and network development in a managed care environment
Successful performance as a P&L owner with a deep understanding of healthcare delivery and care delivery operations and a track record of growth and positive financial results of care delivery services
Demonstrated leadership capacity to assume direct accountability for care delivery operations producing multi billion dollars in revenue and the ability to lead, motivate, coach, develop, and mentor people to achieve agreed-upon results
Ideally, the successful candidate will bring direct experience in the local care delivery market with an understanding of state and local regulatory dynamics
Prior experience working in a complex payer organization, possessing facilitation, negotiation, and consensus building skills
The Regional President must have strong financial acumen, strategic thinking capacity, effective communication skills, and a proven track record of building and maintaining effective partnerships with all internal and external constituents
The ability to set clear and challenging goals while committing the organization to improved performance; tenacious and accountable in driving results
Comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty; the ability to adapt nimbly and lead others through complex situations
A risk-taker who seeks data and input from others to foresee threats or unintended circumstances from decisions; someone who takes smart risks
A leader who is viewed by others as having a high degree of integrity and forethought in their approach to making decisions; the ability to act in a transparent and consistent manner while always considering what is best for the organization
The ability to persevere in the face of challenges and exhibit a steadfast resolve and relentless commitment to higher standards, which commands respect from followers
A leader who is self-reflective and aware of their own limitations; leads by example and drives the organizations performance with an attitude of continuous improvement by being open to feedback and self-improvement
Naturally connects and builds strong relationships with others, demonstrating strong emotional intelligence and an ability to communicate clearly and persuasively
An ability to inspire trust and followership in others through compelling influence, powerful charisma, passion in their beliefs, and active drive
Encourages others to share the spotlight and visibly celebrates and supports the success of the team
Creates a sense of purpose/meaning for the team that generates followership beyond their own personality and engages others to the greater purpose for the organization
Preferred
Prior experience working in an integrated delivery system or provider-sponsored plan is a plus
MBA preferred
Company
Kaiser Permanente
Kaiser Permanente is a health organization that offers disease prevention, mental healthcare, and chronic disease management services.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$7.48M2018-07-17Grant· $0.08M
2014-08-05Grant· $7.4M
Leadership Team
Gregory Adams
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
James L. Robinson III
Senior Vice President/Area Manager
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