Country Lead - Scotland

PortmanDentex is a leading dental group where your skills and ambitions make a real difference. We support over 370 practices across the UK and Ireland. We’re united by a passion for great dentistry, putting patients first and helping each other grow both at work and beyond.

We're hiring for a Country Lead for Scotland to provide senior operational leadership across our practices in the region. In this role, you'll lead our Practice Managers to deliver outstanding patient care, commercial performance, colleague engagement and regulatory compliance.

The role combines operational excellence with strategic influence, ensuring national priorities are delivered consistently whilst recognising the unique commercial, regulatory and competitive landscape within Scotland.

Your key responsibilities will include business performance, leadership and people development, commercial and market leadership, regulatory and governance leadership, stakeholder management and driving operational excellence. 

Key metrics in this role are:

• EBITDA
• Revenue growth
• KPI performance
• Patient growth and retention
• Colleague engagement
• Compliance and regulatory performance
• Clinical governance outcomes
• Net Promoter Score
• Leadership capability and succession strength
• Successful delivery of country business plans

We welcome your application to this vacancy if you have the following skills and experience:

• Multi-site leadership experience within a consumer or healthcare environment
• Proven experience leading large, geographically dispersed teams
• Strong commercial acumen with responsibility for delivering financial performance
• Demonstrated ability to influence and lead through organisational change
• Exceptional leadership, coaching and stakeholder management skills
• Strong analytical capability with the ability to convert insight into action
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution
• Excellent communication, influencing and relationship-building skills
• High levels of resilience, credibility and professional judgement
• Ability to operate autonomously whilst working collaboratively across functions

At PortmanDentex, you’ll be part of an inclusive, collaborative team environment where your development and potential are encouraged, and your new ideas and innovative approaches are welcomed.

This Country Manager role is field-based, with regular travel to the practices across Scotland.

In addition to a competitive salary, our benefits package includes:

• Bonus scheme based on key metrics and business performance
• 25 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, special days off (such as your birthday), and the opportunity to purchase up to 3 additional annual leave days
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Life assurance and contributory pension scheme
• Health and Wellbeing benefits, including an annual allowance for dental treatment in one of our practices, confidential helpline and counselling services, and access to a 24/7 GP service

If you’re ready to make a difference and showcase your skills, apply for our Country Lead vacancy by submitting your latest CV. Alternatively, please feel free to share this opportunity with your network.

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We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplace. We are committed to creating an environment of mutual respect and are dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, disability, age, or nationality.