Director of Purchasing

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:

Compensation:

• $130,000-$140,000/year