Svp, Area Manager-Fresno Jobs

The Senior Vice President and Area Manager works within the overall context of Northern California Regional or Southern 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 and Area Manager 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 and Area Manager to partner with The Permanente Medical Group (TPMG) in Northern California or The Southern California Permanente Medical Group (SCPMG) in Southern California and Labor. TPMG or SCPMG is the sole provider of medical services and medical office/key ancillary department management in Northern California or Southern 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 and Area Manager must work closely with TPMG or SCPMG 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 and Area Manager 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 and Area Manager must develop strong, positive relationships with these key stakeholders.

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

• Understanding and commitment to diversity
• Demonstrated experience with both strategy and operations
• Thorough understanding of financial issues and delivery systems trends
• Strategic understanding necessary to deal with the health care delivery systems of the future
• Experience with integrating systems and services to more efficiently maximize service and to support the organizations mission and goals
• Demonstrated strategic and program planning skills in a managed care environment is desirable
• Financial planning and management skills are necessary
• Demonstrated success in managing in a complex, managed care environment is desirable
• Demonstrated ability to impact outcomes using influencing skills
• 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
• Understanding of integrated management models
• The ability to balance strategic development and day-to-day operation responsibilities
• 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)
• Experience managing with physicians who have joint accountability
• Demonstrated skills in team building and organizational development
• Excellent problem solving and negotiating skills
• Demonstrated ability to function collaboratively in a multi-entity partnership environment
• 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.
• Demonstrated experience working collaboratively in a business partnership with clinical, business, physician, and labor leaders

PrimaryLocation : California,Fresno,Fresno Hospital - Sequoia
HoursPerWeek : 40
Shift : Day
Workdays : M-F
WorkingHoursStart : 08:00 AM
WorkingHoursEnd : 05:00 PM
Job Schedule : Full-time
Job Type : Standard
Employee Status : Regular
Employee Group/Union Affiliation : NUE Executives|NUE|Non Union Employee
Job Level : Executive/VP
Job Category : Health Care & Hospital Operations
Department : Po/Ho Corp - Rgnl Clrng-Ncal Hospital - 0308
Travel : No
Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, parental status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, veteran status, genetic information, other distinguishing characteristics of diversity and inclusion, or any other protected status.