Director, Doctor Recruitment

Specialized Dental Partners•Franklin, TN

About The Position

Specialized Dental Partners is a doctor-led network of 275+ specialty dental practices and 450+ doctors across multiple states. We offer the scale, resources, and professional connections that help specialists and teammates thrive, while maintaining the supportive culture and local relationships that define our organization. Our purpose, We Care More, shapes how we support our doctors, teammates, and patients every day. We care more about patient outcomes, doctor success, teammate growth, meaningful relationships, and the communities we serve. By combining clinical excellence with a people-first culture, we create an environment where specialists can build rewarding careers while making a lasting impact. At Specialized Dental Partners, you'll find more than a job. You'll find a community committed to helping you succeed. From mentorship and career development to clinical collaboration and leadership opportunities, we are committed to helping our people grow personally and professionally. If you're looking for an organization where your expertise is valued, your growth is supported, and your work makes a meaningful difference, we'd love to meet you! The Director of Doctor Recruitment is the senior recruiting leader responsible for building and leading Specialized Dental Partners’ (SDP) end-to-end doctor recruiting function nationwide. This role sets national recruiting strategy, standards, and priorities, and translates them into consistent, high-quality execution by leading the Regional Doctor Recruitment Managers. The Director sets the bar and leads by example for how SDP recruits, coaches and develops regional leaders to personally engage on the organization’s highest-priority and most complex specialist searches. Success is measured by national hiring outcomes, the strength and development of the regional recruiting team, and the long-term health of SDP’s specialist pipeline. Specialized Dental Partners is building the most respected specialty partnership in dentistry. As the senior leader of national doctor recruiting, the Director of Doctor Recruitment ensures SDP doesn’t just hire doctors — it builds and leads the team that brings the right specialists into the right practices at the right time, nationwide, setting them up to thrive clinically, operationally, and personally.

Requirements

5+ years of recruiting experience, including physician, specialist, or executive-level recruiting; healthcare or dental strongly preferred
3+ years directly managing and developing recruiters or recruiting managers, ideally across multiple markets or regions
3+ years experience utilizing iCIMS for applicant tracking and campaign management, social media and job boards for recruitment and sourcing
Proven success recruiting hard-to-hire, high-demand professionals at national or multi-region scale
Strong executive presence and consultative skills, with the ability to influence clinicians, operators, and senior executives
Data-driven mindset with experience building and running structured recruiting processes, metrics, and forecasting
High ownership mentality — comfortable setting strategy and driving execution in a fast-moving, growth-oriented environment

Responsibilities

Own national specialist doctor hiring outcomes, from strategy and target-setting through signed agreements and start dates
Set national recruiting standards, playbooks, and best practices, and ensure consistent adoption across regions
Maintain deep knowledge of national and regional market dynamics, competitive landscapes, and candidate motivations to inform strategy
Directly manage and develop the Regional Doctor Recruitment Managers including goal-setting, coaching, and performance management
Review regional pipelines and results regularly, removing bottlenecks and reallocating focus or resources as market conditions shift
Personally engage on the organization’s highest-priority, most complex, or highest-risk specialist searches alongside regional teams
Partner with the Marketing team to activate and optimize residency, military, referral, and experienced-doctor pipelines nationally
Coordinate with the Chief Clinical Officer to align recruiting messaging with post-hire onboarding, mentorship, and engagement strategies
Partner with HR and Talent Acquisition on compliant, efficient, and scalable hiring processes, offers, and transitions to onboarding
Own the national framework for clinical vetting, specialty-specific assessment, and final hiring recommendations
Partner with Operations and practice leadership to assess market fit, practice needs, ramp-up feasibility, and long-term alignment
Own national recruiting data, dashboards, and forecasting; lead regular recruiting reviews with executive leadership
Identify systemic bottlenecks, market challenges, and execution gaps across regions, and drive cross-regional solutions
Ensure accurate, consistent pipeline data and reporting across both regions
Execute on campaigns and best practices to keep candidates engaged and up to date during time between offer and start date
Serve as the senior ambassador of SDP’s specialist recruiting brand nationally
Represent SDP at national recruiting events, and professional networks to build long-term candidate relationships
Communicate SDP’s value proposition clearly and consistently: partnership mindset, clinical autonomy, growth support, and long-term career opportunity