Regional Manager of Operations

Heartland Dental LLC; Melbourne (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Heartland Dental LLC is seeking a Regional Manager of Operations to lead administrative and operational excellence across 8–12 supported dental offices. You will build relationships with regional teams, drive profitability, and implement systems that scale growth while ensuring high standards of patient care.

Travel is required to support offices, train practice managers, and partner with dentists. You’ll report to the Regional Director of Operations and oversee budgeting, reporting, and

Qualifications

• Five years of business management experience OR associate degree plus three years OR bachelor’s degree plus one year of experience.
• Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.
• Willingness to travel frequently, including overnight stays.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Maturity, initiative, and sound judgment.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing administrative operations of 8 to 12 supported dental offices.
• Support dentists in growth and development, setting goals, addressing opportunities.
• Motivate team members, resolve conflicts, and make difficult decisions.
• Analyze business reporting and recommend actions to meet budget and EBITDA targets.
• Monitor P&L and close gaps between actual performance and projections.
• Coordinate visits and quarterly in-practice reviews across the region.
• Hire, train, and coach Practice Managers.
• Interview and contribute to selecting supported dentists.
• Develop workforce planning, recruitment and retention strategies.
• Provide reports and recommendations to management as needed.
• Handle other projects as assigned.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organization

Education

Associate degree

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Dentrix

Job description

Regional Manager of Operations

A region of Heartland Dental supported offices is seeking a Regional Manager of Operations (RMO) with strong business acumen and a proven track record of leadership. In this strategic role, you will implement efficiencies and systems to further grow supported offices and our company footprint. Maintaining a close relationship with all regional team members, from administrators to front desk assistants, ability to build relationships and deliver results effecting feedback from a remote setting will be key. The Regional Manager of Operations will play a significant role in cultivating an environment that provides effective and trustworthy dental services. In this administrative leadership role, you’ll use your team-building skills to maintain profitability within multiple established, state-of-the-art Heartland Dental supported offices. Additionally, this position plays an essential role in communicating with patients and dental team.

Training and Support

Training and supporting tools are provided in the areas of practice management and leadership to help accomplish position responsibilities. All reasonable travel-related expenses covered under our travel & expense policy. Heartland Dental provides the necessary equipment, including a laptop and mobile phone.

Reporting

This position reports to the Regional Director of Operations (RDO).

Duties & Responsibilities

• Overseeing the administrative operations of 8 to 12 supported dental offices
• Directly support dentists in their growth and development, helping them set goals and address operational opportunities within their supported office
• Motivate team members, resolve conflicts and make difficult decisions
• Ability to analyze business reporting and create recommendation/action to attainment of yearly budgetary and contribution goals, prioritizing supported practice performance issues to ensure issues impacting Same Office Growth (SOG), revenue and profitability (EBITDA) are addressed first
• Monitor the P&L statements for each supported practice and develop effective ways to close the gaps between actual performance and company projections
• Work with multiple supported practices and Practice Managers across a large region, coordinating in-practice visits and reviews; including a quarterly in-practice business meeting for each supported practice
• Responsible for hiring, training and coaching Practice Managers
• Responsible for interviewing and contributing to the selection of supported dentists
• Develop workforce planning, recruiting and retention strategy to maintain optimum performance of each supported practice
• Provide reports and recommendations, as needed, to management on supported practices
• Other projects as assigned

Minimum Requirements

• Completion of one of the following: at least five years of business management experience OR associate degree and not less than 3 years of business management experience OR Bachelor’s degree and one year experience
• Strong organizational skills, accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to frequently travel with some overnight stays
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• High level of maturity, personal initiative, and sound judgment
• Outstanding relationship‑building, interpersonal and leadership skills
• Exceptional customer service skills, with the ability to build a comfortable and approachable relationship with patients
• Adequate dedicated space at home or alternate work location to allow and support work‑related activities
• If necessary, family care services are in place by employee to provide a time slot of undisturbed, focused attention to details

Desirable Qualifications

• Working knowledge of dental procedures and terminology
• 2+ years managing multiple practice or retail store locations
• Experience in dental practice management
• Experience with practice management software, preferably Dentrix

Benefits and Culture

We put our people first at Heartland Dental, and that shows in our generous benefits package.

Other Information

Company retains the sole discretion to change the duties of the position at any time.

Equal Opportunity

We provide all employees and applicants for employment the protections of federal, state, and local laws affording equal opportunity in employment.