The Aspen Group (TAG) is one of the largest and most trusted retail healthcare business support organizations in the U.S. and has supported over 20,000 healthcare professionals and team members with close to 1,500 health and wellness offices across 50 states in four distinct categories: dental care, urgent care, medical aesthetics, and animal health. Working in partnership with independent practice owners and clinicians, the team is united by a single purpose: to prove that healthcare can be better and smarter for everyone. TAG provides a comprehensive suite of centralized business support services that power the impact of five consumer-facing businesses: Aspen Dental, ClearChoice Dental Implant Centers, Chapter Aesthetic Studio, WellNow, and Lovet Pet Vet. Each brand has access to a deep community of experts, tools and resources to grow their practices, and an unwavering commitment to delivering high-quality consumer healthcare experiences at scale.
As a reflection of our current needs and planned growth, we are very pleased to offer an opportunity to join our dedicated team at as a Director, Clinical Category Management.
Position Summary
The Director, Clinical Category Management – Goods & Services is responsible for setting the enterprise-wide strategy for clinical sourcing across The Aspen Group’s portfolio, including Aspen Dental, ClearChoice, WellNow, and emerging brands.
This leader drives long-term value creation through category transformation, supplier innovation, and cross-brand standardization.
The Director operates as a strategic partner to executive leadership and clinical stakeholders, ensuring sourcing strategies enhance patient outcomes, scalability, and financial performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and execute the long-term strategy for clinical goods and services across all TAG brands
- Identify enterprise-wide opportunities for standardization, consolidation, and innovation
- Align category strategies with TAG’s growth objectives, M&A activity, and clinical priorities
- Own and deliver against enterprise savings targets and value creation goals
- Drive total cost of care optimization, not just unit cost reduction
- Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, including clinical, operations, and finance leaders
- Lead governance forums for sourcing decisions and category performance
- Build and manage executive-level supplier relationships
- Drive strategic partnerships, innovation, and joint value creation initiatives
- Lead complex negotiations involving enterprise agreements, rebates, and risk-sharing models
- Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing category management team
- Ensure compliance with healthcare regulations and internal policies
- Develop risk mitigation strategies for critical clinical supply categories
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred
- 10–15+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, category management, or procurement
- Significant experience in healthcare, dental, or multi-site clinical environments
- Demonstrated success leading large-scale, enterprise sourcing transformations
- Proven ability to influence at the executive level in a matrixed organization
- Strong financial acumen and experience managing large spend portfolios
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Enterprise cost savings and total value delivered
- Clinical standardization and adoption rates
- Supplier performance and strategic partnership outcomes
- Contract compliance and spend under management
- Team performance and organizational capability development
Compensation
Salary: $160-200k, plus bonus incentives, with a generous benefits package that includes paid time off, health, dental, vision, and 401(k) savings plan with match
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- MBA or advanced degree
- 10-15+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, category management, or procurement
- Significant experience in healthcare, dental, or multi-site clinical environments
- Experience leading large-scale, enterprise sourcing transformations
- Ability to influence at the executive level in a matrixed organization
- Strong financial acumen and experience managing large spend portfolios
TAG - The Aspen Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about TAG - The Aspen Group and has not been reviewed or approved by TAG - The Aspen Group.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan choices with defined costs, HSA support, and accessible plan documents indicate a robust health offering. Distinctive features like GLP‑1 coverage on the HSA plan and clear SBCs add clarity for election decisions.
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Retirement Support — A clearly outlined 401(k) program features an immediately vested employer match with explicit eligibility timing. Consistent references to the plan and enrollment resources across brand sites underscore ease of access.
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Affordable Benefits — Dental-care discounts through the Aspen Dental network—free preventive services and reduced rates for procedures—help lower out‑of‑pocket costs. Additional perks like brand discounts and pet insurance can further stretch total value for some roles.
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What We Do
When we helped launch Aspen Dental, we set out to break down the barriers that made it hard for patients to keep up with their dental health — affordability, transparency, and access. We knew the key to better patient care started with the provider, so we changed how the dental business worked. We built new relationships, expertise, and tools to help dentists run their businesses more effectively and better care for their patients. Fast forward, and over 25 years later, we support more than 1000 Aspen Dental locations—by doing so, we are proud to say we have changed access to dental care nationwide. But there’s more work to do. Healthier, happier smiles were just our beginning. We came together to launch TAG – The Aspen Group, officially expanding beyond dental and embracing a new vision. By bringing together Aspen Dental, Chapter, ClearChoice, WellNow, and Lovet into one family of brands, we set out to achieve one simple goal together: to bring better healthcare to more people - because we believe in a future where health and wellness is accessible for all. With that mission in mind, TAG now supports over 5,300 clinicians across more than 1,400 locations. While our vision is now broader, how we achieve it remains the same. The best care starts with the provider - and TAG exists to power them so they can meet patients where they are, no matter their specialty, and deliver better care. Because we know that at the end of the day, better healthcare is simple — empower the provider and their teams, and the rest will follow. United as one group, we’re not just breaking down barriers; today, we’re breaking through. We’re challenging the status quo. Together, we can prove healthcare can be better for both providers and patients. Together, we can bring better healthcare to more people.
Why Work With Us
TAG - The Aspen Group employs and/or supports over 25,000 healthcare professionals and team members at more than 1,400 health and wellness offices across 46 states in four distinct categories: Dental care, urgent care, medical aesthetics, and animal health. Every day we wake up to empower providers to do what they do best: focus on the patient.
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