Management Consulting Intern-Graduate

Lay the groundwork for a dynamic future with an industry leader. At Kaiser Permanente, youll forge lasting relationships with colleagues across the organization while enjoying the opportunity to grow your experience and hone your expertise on assignments that have real impact. Our interns have worked on everything from analyzing financial software and developing new marketing strategies, to designing mobile apps and helping clinicians improve care delivery. We want you to get the most out of your time here and will give you projects that challenge you to think freely, question thoroughly, and explore deeply.

Location: Remote in any KP Region

Department Description: - Business Optimization & Redesign - We identify, drive and deliver business and consumer value to KP, our members, patients and the communities we serve.

We work with all aspects of KP to review and redesign KP to deliver faster and better outcomes in a way that reduces friction, empowers decision-making, simplifies, de-duplicates and automates our processes, and drives cycle time reduction so that KP stays affordable while driving even greater outcomes and value to our members, patients and the communities we serve.

Target Majors: Business, Science, or Engineering.

Target Skills:

Problem Solving:Relies on curiosity, structure, hypotheses, research, data and analysis rather than individual intuition, assumptions, opinion or agendas to discover insights and solutions. Ability to evaluate a business need and craft solutions that can be used to address the need. Commits to solving the problem, not to implementing a specific solution. Considers feasibility and sustainability from the beginning. Undeterred by ambiguity, complexity or politics.Competence, interest and/or exposure to both continuous improvement and transformational methodologies.

Collaboration:Comfortable working in small, fast-paced teams where interdependent workstreams need to be coordinated and integrated frequently.  Takes accountability for assigned scope and timing of work and appropriately escalates requests and issues as they arise.  Eager to offer and seek help or constructive feedback when needed.  Coaches and mentors peers and/or junior team members. Values diverse perspectives and skillsets.  Comfortable working through the tension created by competing ideas.  Successfully partners with subject matter experts to leverage their knowledge and credibility.  Builds relationships and influences peers, partners and superiors using insights and shared values to build consensus for appropriate action. Knows how to navigate the organization to bring stakeholders together, gaining cooperation and support. 

Communication: Distills large volumes of data and research into concise and intuitive insights tailored to specific audiences in written communications, presentations and discussions.  Provides transparency on approach, expectations, outcomes, risks, limitations and requests.  Experienced in communicating with different audiences. Action-oriented and optimistic.  Offers suggestions and reasoning then asks for confirmation rather than asking for open-ended guidance. Anticipates and prepares for questions, concerns and next steps.  Comfortable and competent under questioning.  Demonstrates appropriate agility and flexibility when significant new information or direction is provided.

Core Behaviors: Structured & data driven, motivated by curiosity and results, flexible, accountable

Essential Responsibilities:

• Contributing to a designated project or initiative to meet a KP business objective.


• Report development and analytics.


• Project management - planning, execution, and measurement.


• Learning new applications needed to complete assignments or support the execution of business objectives.


• Job shadowing in other functional areas.


• Performing additional duties as required.