Data Analyst

Lightwave Dental was founded in 2016, is a high-growth company building the group model for the future of the dental industry. Lightwave is passionate about doing things the right way with a tight focus on high quality, core values, and taking care of their people. Lightwave is a dental leadership organization that focuses on partnering, training and developing dentists as the natural leaders of the dental practice. Lightwave helps dentists launch their careers, supports dentists leading high-growth dental groups, and assists doctors looking to establish their legacy as they transition into retirement. Lightwave is solving the big problems in dentistry: retirement, management, reimbursements, and partnership by providing the benefits of a group while preserving the essence of private practice. Lightwave currently supports over 80 dental offices in 4 states. For additional information, please visit lightwavedental.com. Follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

About Us:
Lightwave Dental is a high-growth company building the group model for the future of the dental industry. As the industry’s first Dental Leadership Organization, Lightwave focuses on partnering, training, and developing dentists as natural leaders of their dental practice. The company helps dentists launch their careers, supports those leading high-growth dental groups, and assists with preserving their legacy as they transition into retirement. Lightwave is solving large issues in dentistry around retirement, business management, reimbursements, and partnership by providing the benefits of a group while preserving the essence of private practice. The company currently supports more than 200 dentists and 1,800 active employees in 100 dental offices across Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.

Introduction:
We are looking for a highly analytical and business-oriented Data Analyst to join our analytics team. This is a high impact role that will partner closely with operations and finance to drive performance across our network of dental practices.

The ideal candidate will have 2-5 years of experience and be comfortable working with large datasets, building dashboards, and, most importantly, translating data into actionable insights that improve business outcomes. This role is highly cross-functional and requires both strong technical skills and a proactive, problem-solving mindset.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyze large, complex datasets to identify trends, drivers of performance, and opportunities for improvement
• Design, build, and maintain high-quality dashboards and reports that track key business trends and surface actionable insights
• Translate business questions into clear analytical approaches, and present findings in compelling ways to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define data requirements and support decision-making processes.
• Uphold trust in data by ensuring accuracy, consistency, and quality across reporting pipelines
• Support recurring reporting as well as ad hoc analyses for senior leadership
• Monitor and optimize data pipelines to improve efficiency and performance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or a related field.
• 2-5 years of experience in Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, or a similar data-centric role
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Power BI (or similar BI tools)
• Advanced Excel skills (data manipulation, analysis, etc.)
• Experience working with large datasets and relational databases.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Opportunities for professional development and growth within a dynamic team.
• A collaborative and inclusive work environment.

In return for providing an excellent employee and patient experience, we offer a great benefits package to include health and dental benefits, 401(k), holiday pay and paid time off.