Overview
This leadership role serves as the Vice President, Finance & Operations, reporting directly to the President. The position drives the organization’s growth strategy, ensures financial stability, and leads operational execution across the dental organization. The role combines financial performance management and operational leadership to support sustainable growth, strong margins, and scalable infrastructure.
The Vice President partners with the President and the leadership team to align strategy with execution, ensuring growth initiatives translate into measurable financial and operational results.
Responsibilities
- Monitor and analyze financial performance.
- Partner with Finance to support strong financial performance, margin expansion, and cash flow optimization.
- Partner with operational and leadership teams to improve utilization, provider productivity, and cost management.
- Translate growth and operational strategies into financial outcomes (EBITDA, profitability, cost control).
- Monitor and manage P&L performance across locations and business units.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, capital allocation decisions, and financial planning processes.
- Provide insights into cost structure, margin improvement, and scalability.
- Provide actionable insights to improve operational and financial outcomes.
- Oversee day-to-day operations to drive consistency, standardization, efficiency, and quality.
- Build scalable operating models, processes, and infrastructure to support growth.
- Identify and implement opportunities to improve financial systems, processes, automation, and operational efficiency.
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement and accountability.
- Lead transformation initiatives across systems, workflows, automation, and integration of strategic alliances.
- Leverage analytics to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Drive performance across key levers: production, collections, payer mix, and retention.
- Oversee operational components of the revenue cycle.
- Identify and reduce revenue leakage through process improvements and accountability.
- Establish dashboards and metrics to drive performance discipline across locations.
- Work with the President and VP, Sales to define and execute the growth strategy, including organic growth.
- Partner to identify and prioritize market expansion opportunities and strategic partnerships/alliances.
- Lead business development initiatives, including provider recruitment, referral growth, and service expansion.
- Establish KPIs to measure growth performance (revenue growth, patient volume, market share).
- Translate strategic priorities into executable initiatives with clear ownership, timelines, and metrics.
- Establish governance, reporting, and accountability mechanisms across growth and operations.
- Lead cross-functional coordination across Operations, Finance, HR, Sales, Client Relations, and Provider.
- Ensure alignment between enterprise strategy and execution.
- Lead and develop operational leaders.
- Build a high-performing, accountable, results-driven culture.
- Strengthen the leadership bench and ensure readiness for expansion.
- Foster collaboration across business, clinical, and corporate functions.
Skills
- Ability to translate strategy into disciplined execution.
- Strong leadership, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.
Knowledge
- Strong P&L and financial acumen with experience driving profitability.
- Deep understanding of operations.
- Experience with growth strategy (organic + acquisitive).
- Data-driven decision-maker focused on measurable results.
Experience
- Minimum 12 years of progressive leadership experience.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in senior roles overseeing operations, growth, and/or P&L.
- Experience in dental, healthcare services, or multi-site service organizations strongly preferred.
Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Healthcare Administration, or related field required; MBA preferred.
Compensation & Benefits
- Base pay is influenced by qualifications, relevant experience, anticipated contributions to meet business needs, internal pay equity, and external market-driven rates.
- The salary range displayed has not been adjusted for geographical location. The range is based on information known at the time of posting and may be modified in the future.
- Comprehensive benefits package including:
- Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
- Retirement Plan
- Paid Time Off, Holidays, and Volunteer time off
- Incentive Plan
- Tuition Reimbursement
Location
Not specified in the posting.
Equal Opportunity Employer
The employer is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran’s status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.