Lab Manager

MB2 Dental•Carrollton, TX

About The Position

MB2 Dental is seeking a Procurement Lab Manager to lead its laboratory category strategy across the organization. The role manages laboratory spend, partner relationships, contracts, performance, and strategic initiatives. The manager develops and optimizes preferred laboratory strategies to improve savings, quality, service, and doctor adoption, and advises leadership on market trends, capabilities, and strategic opportunities.

Requirements

At least 6 years of procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, or laboratory management experience.
Strong negotiation, analytical, and relationship-management skills.
Proven ability to independently manage a significant spend category and influence cross-functional stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

Experience in dental, laboratory, healthcare, or multi-site environments.

Responsibilities

Manage the laboratory category, including spend, performance, contracts, and strategic initiatives.
Develop and optimize the preferred laboratory strategy to drive savings, quality, service, and doctor adoption.
Own relationships with corporate laboratory partners, including executive business reviews, negotiations, and performance management.
Analyze laboratory spend, utilization, pricing, and practice behavior to identify opportunities for consolidation, savings, and operational improvement.
Partner with Operations, Leadership, and Finance to drive preferred laboratory adoption and improve outcomes.
Lead laboratory partner selection, onboarding, and governance processes.
Build reporting, dashboards, and insights to support decision-making and measure category performance.
Manage escalations, service issues, and accountability across the network.
Identify and execute strategic initiatives that improve quality, consistency, service levels, and total cost of ownership.
Serve as a laboratory-category subject matter expert and advise leadership on market trends, capabilities, and strategic opportunities.