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You will simplify and automate business processes, rapidly demonstrate value, and lead successful solutions into reusable data products that can scale across the organisation.\nWho You Are\nYou are a problem solver who thrives where business processes, data, and technology intersect. You can quickly understand how a business process operates, identify inefficiencies, and translate those opportunities into practical solutions.\nYou bring strong analytical thinking and a product mindset. Rather than treating each automation as a one-time project, you look for opportunities to create reusable capabilities and data products that solve broader business problems and continue to deliver value over time.\nIn This Role, You Will\nProcess Discovery & Automation\nPartner directly with business teams to understand processes, pain points, manual activities, and opportunities for improvement. \nMap current-state processes and identify opportunities to simplify, standardise, automate, or eliminate unnecessary work. \nTranslate business needs into clearly defined opportunities with measurable outcomes. \nRapidly develop and implement automation solutions that reduce manual effort, improve efficiency, and increase process reliability. \nData Product Ownership & Development\nLead successful automations through their evolution into scalable, reusable data products. \nDefine the vision, requirements, roadmap, and priorities for data products within your area of ownership. \nEnsure products have clear ownership, defined consumers, measurable outcomes, documentation, and operational support. \nMaintain and prioritise a product backlog based on business value, adoption, feedback, and opportunities for expansion. \nContinuously improve products based on real-world usage and evolving business requirements. \nBusiness & Technology Partnership\nWork directly with stakeholders to understand desired outcomes and prioritise opportunities based on value, effort, complexity, and scalability. \nLead initiatives from initial discovery and proof of value through implementation, adoption, and product evolution. \nCommunicate solution options, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs in clear business terms. \nDrive adoption and ensure delivered products are solving the intended business problem. \nContinuous Improvement & Scale\nIdentify patterns across individual automation opportunities that can be addressed through shared data products and reusable capabilities. \nHelp establish repeatable approaches for discovering, evaluating, prioritising, and scaling automation opportunities. \nExplore emerging technologies, including AI and intelligent automation, where they can meaningfully improve processes or products. \nMeasure the effectiveness and adoption of delivered solutions and identify opportunities for continued improvement. \nWhat You'll Bring\n8+ years of progressive experience across technology, process improvement, automation, digital transformation, data products, business systems, or related disciplines. \nStrong experience analysing workflows and identifying opportunities for process improvement and automation. \nDemonstrated experience owning or leading technology, automation, or data products through their lifecycle. \nAbility to translate successful prototypes or point solutions into scalable, reusable capabilities. \nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to bring structure to ambiguous problems. \nExperience managing and prioritising requirements or backlogs based on business value and user needs. \nExperience coordinating delivery across multiple business and technology teams. \nUnderstanding of modern data, cloud, integration, automation, and software delivery concepts. \nStrong communication skills with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical audiences. \nA strong bias toward action, experimentation, measurable outcomes, and continuous improvement. \nConsidered an Asset\nExperience building or managing enterprise data products. \nExperience with workflow automation and low-code/no-code platforms. \nExperience applying AI, generative AI, or intelligent automation to business processes. \nExperience with modern cloud data platforms such as Snowflake and cloud environments such as AWS. \nExperience with enterprise applications, APIs, integrations, and workflow platforms. \nExperience with process-mapping, Lean, or other continuous-improvement methodologies. \nExperience within healthcare, multi-site operations, or another complex enterprise environment. \nWhy Dentalcorp?\nDentalcorp is North America’s leading and fastest-growing network of dental practices. Through industry-leading technology, expertise, and scale, we help practices grow while supporting dental professionals to retain their clinical autonomy. Here, you’ll be trusted with meaningful responsibility, supported to grow, and surrounded by people who share ideas and raise the bar together. Our Beyond Brilliant values-Beyond the Status Quo, Beyond Excellence, Brilliant Together, and Brilliant Experiences -guide how we innovate, collaborate, deliver, and put people at the centre.\nThe salary range for this position is $130,000 CAD to $150,000 CAD annually (plus a bonus of up to 15% and competitive total rewards and benefits package). Offers within this range are determined based on relevant experience, skills, and qualifications, as well as internal equity considerations. This job posting is for a newly created position.\nYou will be based at our Toronto Support Centre, located at 181 Bay Street in the heart of Toronto’s financial district. This position will be on site from Monday to Thursday, with Fridays designated as work-from-home days.\nCandidates must be legally eligible to work in Canada. At Dentalcorp, we recognize that inclusivity and diversity strengthen our culture and make us better. We are committed to ensuring that the talent we hire is reflective of the diverse communities and patients we serve. To ensure equal opportunity for all candidates, we strongly encourage applicants requiring an accommodation to let their recruiter know during the recruitment/selection process. 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