Head of Efficiency

What you’ll be doing:

• Oversee all company spend, from direct (hardware, supply chain) to indirect (software, vendors, marketing, professional services) to staff costs.
• Partner with FP&A and all budget owners to connect hiring, vendor, and automation decisions to measurable ROI.
• Build systems / dashboards that create transparency and accountability across every spend category.
• Identify and lead automation or process redesign initiatives that increase output and speed across the company.
• Manage and grow a small, high-impact team (including 2 Procurement Leads and a Headcount/Workforce Analyst) to execute initiatives.
• Work directly with the CFO, CEO, and other leaders to design how Sword scales from here.

What you need to have:

• 7+ years of experience in Efficiency roles, Strategy/Operations Consulting, PE/IB with operating exposure, or Finance/Operations leadership roles.
• Proven record driving cross-functional transformation and delivering measurable efficiency or productivity gains.
• Strong financial and analytical skills - able to quantify ROI and link efficiency programs to business results.
• Solid understanding of org design and workforce planning, ideally partnering with FP&A or HR teams.
• Strong executive presence - confident partnering with C-level leaders and influencing without authority.
• Comfortable with technology and AI adoption, from SaaS automation to AI-driven process improvement.

What we would love to see:

• Experience overseeing procurement processes (direct or indirect), vendor negotiations, and spend governance.
• Background in a high-growth tech or healthcare scale-up, ideally with international expansion.
• Hands-on experience deploying automation or AI tools to replace or augment manual workflows.
• Track record building procurement or transformation functions from scratch.
• Blend of strategic and execution mindset: able to zoom out to design systems, and zoom in to make them work.
• Curiosity and grit: you get energy from solving complex, cross-functional problems.
• Consulting toolkit or PE-style value creation mindset - you think in terms of leverage, not just savings.

To ensure you feel good solving a big Human problem, we offer:

• A stimulating, fast-paced environment with lots of room for creativity;
• A bright future at a promising high-tech startup company;
• Career development and growth, with a competitive salary;
• The opportunity to work with a talented team and to add real value to an innovative solution with the potential to change the future of healthcare;
• A flexible environment where you can control your hours (remotely) with unlimited vacation;
• Access to our health and well-being program (digital therapist sessions);
• Remote or Hybrid work policy.