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Aspen Dental

Dental support organization delivering practice management

Vice President - Pricing & Affordability

Business OperationsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeChicago, IL, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in business, economics, finance, analytics, marketing, or a related field is required.
  • At least 12 years of experience in pricing, revenue management, commercial strategy, or related analytics-intensive business roles.
  • Experience owning pricing decisions at enterprise or multi-brand level in a consumer, retail, healthcare, dental, multi-site services, or similarly complex environment.
  • Demonstrated success building and leading pricing or offer changes from concept through implementation and performance review, including leading and developing a team.
  • Strong understanding of willingness to pay, ability to pay, promotional economics, bundle design, and patient or customer segmentation, with experience presenting pricing strategy to executive-level audiences.
  • Commercial judgment balanced with patient-first thinking.
  • Ability to simplify complex pricing decisions into practical rules and field guidance.
  • High ownership, strong cross-functional influence, and comfort making decisions with imperfect information.
  • Bias toward disciplined action, measurement, and iteration rather than theoretical optimization.
  • Executive presence and credibility to represent pricing strategy directly to senior leadership and brand presidents.
  • Ability to build, coach, and retain a high-performing pricing team.

Responsibilities

  • Own price architecture across TAG brands, starting with Aspen, spanning fee schedules, list-price logic, consult discounts, promotional guardrails, bundles, memberships, affordability pathways, and financing support rules.
  • Translate brand and enterprise strategy into pricing actions with clear business cases, test plans, decision criteria, and rollout guidance.
  • Lead the pricing calendar, monthly business review, approval cadence, and policy governance across the portfolio.
  • Partner with marketing and brand leaders on offer architecture and campaign economics while maintaining pricing ownership of the commercial rules and measurement approach.
  • Partner with operations and field leadership across brands to ensure pricing constructs are executable, understandable, and sustainable in office workflows.
  • Define the realized-price and out-of-pocket waterfall, including how list price, discounting, financing, memberships, and other affordability levers interact.
  • Set guardrails for exceptions, promotional use, regional variation, and market pilots, and adjudicate escalations that cross brand or regional lines.
  • Build and lead the pricing team, including the Principal Pricing Analyst function, prioritizing analyses, experimentation, and post-launch measurement.
  • Provide recommendations to the SVP and broader leadership team on revenue, case acceptance, mix, margin, and patient value implications of pricing choices.
  • Build a disciplined pricing operating model, proven in Aspen, and lead its expansion to additional TAG brands without overcomplicating phase one.
  • Represent pricing in cross-brand strategic planning and portfolio-level investment decisions.
  • Establish one enterprise pricing calendar, one approval path, and one monthly performance review, starting with Aspen.
  • Create a practical price waterfall and standard KPI set for list price, realized price, consult discounting, promotional utilization, and case acceptance.
  • Launch a structured test-and-learn rhythm for pricing changes, bundles, memberships, and affordability offers.
  • Improve consistency and governance across pricing decisions without slowing down commercial execution.
  • Stand up the core pricing team and define a scaling plan to bring additional TAG brands onto the model.

Desired Qualifications

  • An MBA or other advanced related degree is strongly preferred.
  • Experience in healthcare, dental, retail healthcare, or other consult-led service models, ideally across multiple brands or business units.
  • Familiarity with list-price to out-of-pocket pricing waterfalls, financing pathways, and affordability dynamics.
  • Experience building and leading pricing teams, and influencing senior executives and boards, without relying on large dedicated support functions.
  • Comfort working in an environment where governance and analytics capabilities are still being built, including building those capabilities from the ground up.
  • Prior P&L or portfolio-level ownership.

About the Company

Aspen Dental

Dental support organization delivering practice management

Aspen Dental Management, Inc. runs a dental support organization (DSO) that provides non-clinical services to 1,100+ independently owned dental practices in the U.S., handling back-office tasks such as accounting, marketing, real estate and equipment leasing, recruiting, and IT so dentists can focus on patient care. It supports practice owners through the Practice Ownership Program and offers patient financing options and a member savings plan to improve affordability. The model relies on centralized management and procurement to achieve economies of scale, while practices stay independently owned. As part of TAG (The Aspen Group), it has expanded into other healthcare areas like urgent care, dental implants, and medical aesthetics, with a goal to expand access to affordable care across the network.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$275M
Headquarters
Town of DeWitt, New York
Founded
1998

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