Director, Direct-to-Consumer Sales Experience

This is a flexible role and open to candidates residing in the following KP authorized states to include CA, WA, OR, CO, IL, GA, MD, DC, and VA. Please Note: Salary ranges are geographically based, and the posted range reflects the Northern CA region. Lower salary ranges will apply for other labor markets outside of NCAL.

Technical Summary:

The Director, Direct-to-Consumer Sales Experience provides strategic and operational leadership for the end-to-end National Direct to Consumer Sales experience within National Sales & Engagement Solutions (NSES), supporting sales and retention agents who engage approximately 2 million members and consumers annually across Medicare, KPIF, Commercial, and other lines of business. The role owns the vision for how consumers and agents experience the sales journey, from the initial consumer inquiry and information gathering through guidance, product selection, enrollment, and retention. The Director is accountable for understanding the sales experience from both the consumer and agent perspectives and identifying opportunities to make that journey simpler, more intuitive, efficient, and effective. This leader establishes what a successful sales experience should look like, defines business priorities and desired outcomes, and ensures the organization is effectively guiding consumers toward the information, support, and solutions that meet their needs. Success is measured through outcomes including sales effectiveness, conversion, enrollment, agent efficiency, data quality, Agent Satisfaction (ASAT), and Customer Satisfaction (CSAT).

While technology is an important enabler, this is a business leadership role rather than a technology-build role. The Director partners closely with technology teams, product owners, and vendor partners to translate the needs of the business, consumers, and frontline sales teams into capabilities that support the desired sales journey. The role provides business direction and prioritization across Salesforce CRM and connected sales capabilities, including opportunities to leverage AI and automation to improve how agents engage consumers, answer questions accurately, and navigate the sales process.

The Director also oversees vendor engagement, investment priorities, roadmap direction, and delivery outcomes, ensuring partners understand the business experience being created and deliver against defined expectations. The role maintains business decision authority for acceptance of major enhancements and ensures solutions align with National Health Plan and National Sales objectives while continually improving the consumer and agent experience.

Job Summary:

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this director level position is also responsible for directing strategic, enterprise-wide, cross-regional, and/or multi-disciplinary programs to drive exceptional business value for KP; directing evolving strategic priorities and providing strategic planning within and across programs to drive and ensure alignment and performance across the organization. This includes ensuring the progress of initiatives are monitored across program(s) and proactively identifying risks and opportunities of strategic business value; addressing escalated issues to ensure effective resolution; and overseeing the identification, gathering and evaluation of data and key performance drivers to ensure strategy performance and address any gaps. This position is also responsible for directing the development of design plans and supporting the development and execution of change management strategies during key program or organizational changes and transitions; providing leadership in a variety of dynamic situations requiring exceptional consulting, internal influence, conflict management, and resource/team management; directing external research to identify and implement market leading practices; driving a can-do strategic approach with sound business acumen; and advising and partnering with senior leaders while operating within a fast-paced environment.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Prepares individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; builds internal collaborative networks for self and others. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; drives collaboration to set goals and provide open feedback and coaching to foster performance improvement. Demonstrates continuous learning; oversees the recruitment, selection, and development of talent; ensures performance management guidelines and expectations to achieve business needs. Stays up to date with organizational best practices, processes, benchmarks, and industry trends; shares best practices within and across teams. Motivates and empowers teams; maintains a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives. Provides guidance when difficult decisions need to be made; creates opportunities for expanded scope of decision making and impact.

• Oversees the operation of multiple units within a department by identifying member and operational needs; ensures the management of work assignment completion; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; ensures products and / or services meet member requirements and expectations while aligning with organizational strategies. Gains cross-functional support for business plans and priorities; assumes responsibility for decision making; sets standards, measures progress, and fosters resolution of escalated issues. Communicates goals and objectives; analyzes resources, costs, and forecasts and incorporates them into business plans; prioritizes and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; ensures teams accomplish business objectives.

• Directs the delivery of large-scale programs or components with multiple workstreams and strategic business goals across departments, functions, or regions with responsibility and accountability for achieving program outcomes from initiation to close-out in an extended or open ended time frame. Reviews program plans and determines program demands for the most complex program initiatives in order to identify and manage scope, and supply appropriate staffing to complete program plans within scope, budget and schedule. Oversees the program financials of large, high profile, dynamic program initiatives and ensures they are managed within budget allocations. Reviews performance across a portfolio of programs to ensure programs effectively deliver maximum long term value or benefit to the organization, and makes adjustments as needed in an uncertain environment where scope may be fluid. Develops and disseminates processes and procedures for the development and execution of organizational change management (e.g., user adoption, implementation, and training plans). Establishes and oversees proper program management practices in regard to allocation of resources, schedules and task assignments. This role may perform project management duties in addition to program management responsibilities.

• Directs programs team and holds team ccountable for results. Oversees the decisions of others in reference to internal and/or external resource requests based on the alignment of team member skills and program demands. Leverages expertise to create a clear vision of overall program goals and objectives. Delivers performance feedback to team.

• Proactively monitors, identifies, and mitigates program risks, issues, and trigger events across multiple interdependent programs by leveraging expertise and recommending changes to program processes based on the analyses and identification of trigger events.

• Directs adherence of program activities to policies and procedures by ensuring program plans and team members follow KP, departmental, and/or business line policies and procedures.

• Directs the alignment, buy-in, engagement and support of diverse programs stakeholders to set long-term program goals by building and maintaining relationships as well as communicating appropriately with internal customers, third party vendors, executive management, and business leaders; and clarifying accountability and authority across stakeholders. Builds close relationships with key stakeholders across multiple functions based on their level of influence and decision making and guides teams in identifying the right stakeholders for their programs. Directs programs goals, influences the prioritization of deliverables, coordinates all business processes (e.g. project change management, communication) and facilitates decisions necessary for programs delivery by partnering with programs sponsors and/or review boards. Communicates tough issues to stakeholders while maintaining an independent opinion, providing recommendations, delivering formal presentations, and providing reports to executive audiences. Engages with senior and executive stakeholders to identify long term value to the organization and define success.

• Oversees vendor performance and provides direction for service improvements or revisions to strategy. Partners with Procurement and/or Legal to develop service level and/or scope of work agreements as appropriate. Directs partnerships and contract negotiations with vendors.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum five (5) years experience working with senior leadership to deliver cross-regional or multi-disciplinary strategic program management.

• Minimum four (4) years experience in a leadership role with direct reports.

• Minimum three (3) years experience managing operational or project budgets.

• Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university and minimum twelve (12) years experience in project management or a directly related field, including minimum seven (7) years program management experience OR Minimum fifteen (15) years experience in project management or a directly related field including minimum seven (7) years program management experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Five (5) years experience in strategic planning, consulting, and/or development, including helping define strategies and target business benefits or metrics.

• Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA), Organizational Development (OD), or Project/Program Management.

COMPANY: KAISER

TITLE: Director, Direct-to-Consumer Sales Experience

LOCATION: Oakland, California

REQNUMBER: 1437897

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.