Referral & Marketing Manager

Elite Periodontics is hiring an onsite Referral & Marketing Manager in Aurora, IL to strengthen relationships with referring dental offices and grow its referral network. This role blends community outreach with hands-on relationship management, including planning and attending approximately 8 evening continuing education events per year. Join a practice that supports your work with 401(k), health insurance, and paid time off, with a schedule of 30–40 hours per week and $20.00–$25.00 per hour.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with referring dentists and their teams.
• Conduct regular office visits to maintain connections and uncover opportunities for growth.
• Coordinate and sometimes attend lunches with referring doctors and dental teams.
• Introduce specialists and services to prospective referring offices.
• Act as a consistent point of contact between the specialty practice and referring offices.
• Follow up with offices to ensure they feel valued and supported.
• Plan, coordinate, and attend approximately 8 evening continuing education events per year.
• Manage CE event logistics, including venues, invitations, registration, catering, speakers, materials, and follow-up.
• Collaborate with doctors and leadership to develop CE programs that are valuable to the referring dental community.
• Maximize attendance and engagement for each event.
• Track referrals by doctor, office, location, and time period.
• Identify referral trends, including growing, declining, new, and inactive referral sources.
• Provide regular reports to practice leadership on referral activity.
• Support leadership in strategies for strengthening underperforming relationships and expanding high-potential accounts.
• Measure the effectiveness of lunches, office visits, CE events, and other marketing initiatives.
• Coordinate referral-focused marketing materials, gifts, campaigns, and outreach.
• Maintain an organized database of referring doctors and offices.
• Assist with practice branding and community outreach as needed.
• Collaborate with doctors and leadership on marketing priorities for each location.

Requirements

• Warm, polished, and professional, comfortable representing doctors and the practice.
• Naturally outgoing with strong skills for building long-term professional relationships.
• Highly organized and able to independently manage multiple locations, events, and referral relationships.
• Comfortable walking into dental offices, introducing yourself, and developing new relationships.
• Detail-oriented approach with the ability to track data and turn referral information into actionable insights.
• Comfort attending approximately 8 evening events per year.
• Ability to travel locally between practice locations and referring dental offices.

Experience

Experience in dental, medical, pharmaceutical, healthcare marketing, physician liaison, business development, or professional relationship management is preferred. The practice is also willing to consider an exceptional candidate from another relationship-driven industry.

Work location: In person
Expected hours: 30.0 – 40.0 per week
Pay: USD 20 – 25 per hour