Vice President, Strategic Research and Perspectives

Vice President, Strategic Research and Perspectives

Primary Location Oakland, California Employee Status: Regular Schedule Full-time Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Shift Day Salary $315000 - $393750 / year Job Number 1447467 Date Posted 09/09/2026 Worker Location: Flexible Submit Interest Description: This function will serve as Kaiser Permanente's enterprise hub for transformative ideas to advance KP's mission through strategy, industry influence, and public policy. The leader will have a deep understanding of the macro forces affecting healthcare, what KP's point of view is, and where there are opportunities for KP to lead the public dialogue in a differentiated way. The leader will be a thinker, writer, researcher, convener, and thought partner. This leader should combine external market expertise, strategic and economic disciplines, policy and regulatory experience, and internal and external communications and writing expertise. This person is disciplined, externally oriented, analytically grounded, and focused on helping KP explain its enterprise direction, long-term value, mission, and market perspective to influential audiences. The leader will bring together clinicians, researchers, policymakers, innovators, historians, market and strategy leaders, competitive intelligence partners, and external thought leaders to shape KP's perspective on the future of health care and advance the organizations mission. The leader will take in competitive intelligence outputs, market trends, policy signals, research insights, and external stakeholder perspectives; synthesize what they mean; and translate them into enterprise viewpoints, white papers, executive briefings, and convenings. This leader will engage market experts across the organization including enterprise strategy and business development and M&A leadership to understand the competitive market landscape and KP's growth path. The leader will help others throughout the enterprise and at likeminded organizations understand not just what is happening in health care, policy, technology, consumer expectations, and society, but what those changes mean for Kaiser Permanente's long-term strategy, influence, and public purpose. This leader will partner closely with Public Affairs, Enterprise Strategy, Business Development, Government Relations, Communications, Community Health, Marketing, Competitive Intelligence, the Permanente Medical Groups, clinical leadership, research, innovation, market leaders, and enterprise executives to ensure KP's external posture is grounded in evidence, market reality, strategic direction, and a disciplined enterprise point of view. The VP will also steward institutional knowledge and history, archival and oral history capabilities, and other programs or assets that support the organizations convening agenda. Essential Responsibilities:

• Establish and lead external sensing, insight, convening, and unique KP perspective development, building a durable capability that advances KP's mission, external influence, and leadership in the national dialogue on health care.
• Identify and synthesize emerging societal, health care, policy, technology, consumer, employer, affordability, access, and market shifts; translate those signals into implications for KP's enterprise strategy, mission, reputation, and long-term value proposition.
• Use a researchers toolkit that deeply analyzes historical and emerging trends in new ways and translates that research and insight into relevant impacts and perspectives for KP.
• Develop KP's enterprise point of view on the future of health, value-based care, consumer trust, affordability, care delivery transformation, public purpose, and the evolving role of integrated, not-for-profit health care. Translate those unique perspectives into visible products for executives within KP, external stakeholders, and industry leaders.
• Produce enterprise viewpoints, flagship reports, white papers, executive briefings, future scenarios, issue briefs, narrative platforms, and other thought leadership products, including original research and perspective development when needed, that enable KP leaders to communicate with clarity, discipline, and credibility.
• Convene internal and external thought partners, including clinicians, researchers, policymakers, academics, employers, innovators, community leaders, market intelligence leaders, competitive intelligence partners, and health care stakeholders, through executive convenings, signature forums, fellowships, partnerships, and other organizational programs.
• Serve as a connective enterprise capability linking market intelligence, competitive intelligence, policy, advocacy, research translation, clinical excellence, innovation, communications, community affairs, and enterprise strategy so KP's external narrative reflects evidence, mission, and business direction.
• Partner across Enterprise Strategy and Business Development (ESBD), which includes Enterprise Strategy, Public Affairs, Business Development, M&A, and Strategic Partnerships, Transformation, and Risk to integrate subject matter, functional, and market expertise across the discipline into strategic research and perspective development.
• This function will support ESBD leadership communications; market engagement including M&A, partnership, and strategic investment opportunities; stakeholder narratives, and executive visibility so ESBDs work is connected to the broader enterprise perspective and advances a consistent One KP voice.
• House and strengthen institutional knowledge capabilities, including KP's archives, oral history collection, and related storytelling assets, in partnership with Internal Communications and other enterprise partners.
• Evaluate and shape the appropriate role relevant organizational assets and programs, including signature convening spaces, speaker platforms, executive forums, international engagement, and potential partnerships that elevate KP's interests.

Experience

• Minimum fifteen (15) years of progressively responsible research and strategy experience in health care, public affairs, journalism, conference production, strategy, policy, communications, thought leadership, market intelligence, research translation, or a related field.

Education

• Bachelors degree required.

License, Certification, Registration

• N/A

• Exceptional writing, narrative development, and executive communications skills, with experience producing white papers, executive briefings, issue briefs, speeches, thought leadership, or other external-facing strategic content.
• Deep understanding of the U.S. health care environment, including integrated delivery systems, value-based care, affordability, access, policy and regulatory dynamics, consumer and employer expectations, public trust, and the role of not-for-profit health care organizations.
• Experience convening senior internal and external stakeholders and building durable programs, forums, partnerships, fellowships, or other enterprise thought leadership platforms.
• Ability to work across complex matrixed organizations, influence without direct authority, and connect strategy, mission, policy, communications, market realities, and stakeholder engagement into a coherent enterprise narrative.

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Primary Location: California, Oakland, Ordway

• Washington D.C., DC

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Shift: Day Workdays: Mon - Fri Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM Working Hours End: 05:00 PM Job Schedule: Full-time Job Type: Standard Worker Location: Flexible Employee Status: Regular Employee Group/Union Affiliation: NUE Executives|NUE|Non Union Employee Job Level: Executive/VP Department: Po/Ho Corp - Strategy Implementation - 0308 Pay Range: $315000 - $393750 / year Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency. The posted pay range is based on possible base salaries for the role and does not reflect the full value of our total rewards package. Actual base pay determined at offer will be based on labor market data, internal alignment, and a candidate's years of relevant work experience, education, certifications, skills, and geographic location. Travel: Yes, 15 % of the Time Flexible: Work location is on-site at a KP location, with the flexibility to work from home. Worker location must align with Kaiser Permanente's Authorized States policy. Kaiser Permanente is an equal opportunity employer committed to fair, respectful, and inclusive workplaces. Applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic or status.