Director of Finance - Dental Lab

About the Opportunity

A growing multi-site healthcare organization is seeking an experienced and highly analytical Director of Purchasing to oversee purchasing, vendor relationships, laboratory services, and related financial performance across a large network of dental practices.

This is a key leadership position for someone who understands the complexities of supporting multiple healthcare or dental locations, can identify opportunities to improve purchasing efficiency and profitability, and is comfortable working closely with practice leadership and finance teams.

The ideal candidate is technology-savvy, highly organized, financially minded, and comfortable working with large amounts of data. They should be an advanced user of Microsoft Excel and confident creating, maintaining, analyzing, and updating spreadsheets and reporting tools.

Experience in dental purchasing is strongly preferred, although candidates with significant medical, healthcare, or multi-site purchasing experience will also be considered.

Key Responsibilities

Purchasing & Procurement

• Lead purchasing strategy and procurement activities across numerous dental practices.
• Develop and maintain purchasing standards, processes, and controls across the organization.
• Evaluate vendors, pricing, contracts, product quality, and service levels.
• Negotiate pricing, terms, rebates, and other opportunities to reduce costs.
• Identify opportunities for standardization and purchasing efficiencies across practices.
• Monitor supply costs and purchasing trends to identify areas of concern or opportunity.
• Partner with practice leaders to ensure appropriate inventory levels while minimizing waste and unnecessary spending.
• Establish and monitor purchasing policies and procedures.
• Maintain strong relationships with key suppliers and vendors.
• Research new products, technologies, and purchasing solutions that may benefit the organization.

Laboratory Services

• Oversee dental laboratory relationships and services across multiple practices.
• Evaluate laboratory costs, pricing, quality, turnaround times, and service levels.
• Negotiate laboratory pricing and agreements.
• Establish appropriate laboratory standards and processes.
• Monitor laboratory spending and identify opportunities for cost savings and improved quality.
• Partner with clinical and operational leadership to address laboratory-related concerns.
• Stay current on changes and advancements in dental laboratory technology, digital dentistry, and related services.

Financial & Business Analysis

• Review practice budgets, P&Ls, purchasing reports, and expense trends.
• Analyze purchasing and laboratory expenses in relation to practice production and profitability.
• Identify unusual spending patterns, cost variances, and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop reporting and tracking tools to help leadership understand purchasing and laboratory performance.
• Partner with Finance and Operations to establish appropriate spending targets and monitor performance.
• Provide actionable recommendations based on financial and operational data.
• Help practices understand how purchasing and laboratory decisions impact overall profitability.

Technology & Reporting

• Create, maintain, and continuously improve Excel spreadsheets and reporting tools.
• Analyze large amounts of purchasing, inventory, laboratory, and financial data.
• Develop dashboards, tracking tools, budgets, forecasts, and other reporting mechanisms as needed.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date data across purchasing and laboratory systems.
• Be comfortable learning and implementing new technology and software platforms.
• Leverage technology to streamline purchasing processes and improve visibility into spending.
• Stay current with emerging technology, particularly as it relates to dental purchasing, laboratory services, and digital dentistry.

Qualifications

Required:

• Proven experience in purchasing, procurement, supply chain, or vendor management.
• Experience supporting multiple locations, practices, facilities, or business units.
• Strong financial and analytical skills with the ability to understand budgets, P&Ls, expenses, and cost trends.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including the ability to create, maintain, analyze, and update complex spreadsheets.
• Strong negotiation and vendor-management skills.
• Excellent organizational and project-management abilities.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with executives, clinicians, practice leaders, and vendors.
• Ability to work independently in a remote or hybrid environment.
• Willingness to travel approximately 5%.

Preferred:

• Dental purchasing or procurement experience.
• Experience with dental laboratory services and/or dental laboratory vendor management.
• Medical or healthcare purchasing experience.
• Experience supporting a large multi-site healthcare or dental organization.
• Experience with dental practice management systems, procurement platforms, ERP systems, or related technology.
• Familiarity with digital dentistry and evolving dental laboratory technologies.
• Experience analyzing practice-level P&Ls and operating budgets.

Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate will be someone who can think strategically while also getting into the details.

You should be comfortable managing purchasing across numerous locations rather than working with a single facility. You understand that purchasing is not simply about finding the lowest price — it is about balancing cost, quality, availability, standardization, clinical needs, vendor performance, and overall practice profitability.

You are also comfortable working with numbers and financial reports and can look at a practice P&L or budget and identify where purchasing or laboratory expenses may be impacting performance.

You don't need to be a data scientist, but you should be very comfortable with technology and Excel and able to build or improve the tools needed to manage a complex, multi-location purchasing environment.

What We Offer

• Full-time leadership position with significant organizational impact
• Hybrid or fully remote work environment
• Opportunity to support and influence a growing multi-site healthcare organization
• Approximately 5% travel
• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Opportunity to develop and implement purchasing and laboratory strategies across a large practice network
• Direct visibility with operational and financial leadership

If you have strong purchasing/procurement experience, excellent analytical skills, and a background in dental, medical, or multi-site healthcare purchasing, we would like to hear from you.

Benefits:

Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, PTO, Bonuses

Compensation:

• $130,000-$140,000/year