Director, Dental Informatics & Analytics

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Posting Number 201104756 Position Title Director, Dental Informatics & Analytics State WI Employment Status Full Time Position Status Regular If Limited Term (End Date of Assignment, Project, or Grant) Position Type Staff Job Family Information Technology # Hours Per Week 37.5 Position Overview

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This is your next opportunity to join an organization that invests in their employees career journey by diversifying their skills, deepening their expert knowledge, encouraging a healthy work-life balance, focusing on personal wellbeing, providing leadership training, and sustaining a culture of respect and inclusion.

The Director of Informatics & Analytics provides strategic, operational, and people leadership for the School of Dentistrys informatics function. This role leads a 48 person team supporting clinical, academic, and research missions through application stewardship (e.g., axiUm, MiPACS, Dolphin), service management, analytics, and collaboration with central IT.

The Director owns project and portfolio management, matures operational practices, advances analytics, and translates leadership priorities into clear team execution. The role requires hands-on experience leveraging AI to improve informatics operations (e.g., ticket triage, automation, knowledge management, analytics augmentation). Experience applying AI in educational, clinical, or research areas is a plus.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Translate school strategy into informatics roadmaps, OKRs, and execution plans. Represent Informatics on cross-functional committees spanning clinics, education, and research.
• Partner closely with central IT for infrastructure, security, integrations, and change planning and coordinate with them on hosting, backup/DR, identity & access, and cybersecurity.
• Directly supervise and develop informatics staff; establish standards and accountability.
• Mature ITSM practices; incident, problem, change, asset, project, and portfolio management. Establish operational documentation, knowledge management, and service metrics (SLAs, MTTR, CSAT).
• Implement AI/automation to improve service intake/triage, routing, self-service, knowledge search/summarization, and reporting. Pilot and scale AI solutions with measurable outcomes (efficiency, accuracy, satisfaction). Ensure AI usage aligns with compliance, security, and ethical standards; coordinate with IT and compliance.
• Own portfolio intake, prioritization, capacity planning, governance, and executive reporting. Serve as PM for select high-impact initiatives; manage risks, dependencies, and outcomes.
• Oversee functional aspects of axiUm, MiPACS, Dolphin, and related platforms; roadmap upgrades and integrations working closely with ITS and their responsibilities.
• Advance analytics capabilities; deliver dashboards and KPIs that inform clinical operations, student outcomes, and administration. Promote data governance and definitional consistency with stakeholders.
• Ensure HIPAA, FERPA, and research data compliance; maintain audit-ready documentation. Implement role-based access, change controls, and evidence of controls for audits.
• Act as a translator between leadership and technical teams; drive adoption and change readiness. Maintain transparent, audience-appropriate communications and status reporting.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Minimum of 6 total years of experience in the required disciplines with 5 years in Informatics/IT/Analytics roles.
• Minimum of 3 years directly supervising professional staff.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging AI or automation to improve informatics operations.

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Experience in dental, medical, or academic healthcare settings. Familiarity with axiUm, MiPACS, Dolphin or similar systems.
• Experience leveraging AI in clinical, educational, or research use cases.
• Background in analytics/BI and process maturity.

Department Dental School Posting Date 05/21/2026 Closing Date Special Instructions to Applicants EOE Statement

It is the policy of Marquette University to provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other applicable federal or state-protected classification.

Required Documents

Required Documents

• Resume
• Cover Letter/Letter of Application

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