Energy Procurement Specialist Nordics
Verda is a Helsinki-headquartered full-stack AI cloud provider offering on-demand GPU compute, clusters, serverless containers, storage, APIs, and related AI infrastructure.
Funding history
About Verda
Formerly DataCrunch, Verda operates European AI cloud infrastructure for the full AI lifecycle, from prototyping and distributed model training to scalable inference. It manages data-center infrastructure, hardware, cloud-platform services, and an in-house AI Lab.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will own Nordic power procurement and the commercial position behind Finnish and Nordic capacity. You will originate, structure, negotiate, and close PPAs; set portfolio strategy; manage price and risk; build counterparty relationships; and turn data-centre growth plans into long-term procurement plans.
Requirements
- Five or more years of practical power procurement, origination, or trading experience
- Experience personally negotiating and closing PPAs or long-term power contracts
- Nordic power-market experience, including essential Finnish-market experience and a local counterparty network
- Knowledge of spot and forward pricing, price areas, baseload, profiles, hedging, and counterparty risk pricing
- Commercial negotiation experience
- Fluent Finnish and English
Responsibilities
- Own the Nordic power position and procurement decisions
- Run PPAs from origination and counterparty selection through negotiation and close
- Set portfolio strategy across physical and financial PPAs, fixed and floating volume, and spot exposure
- Manage power price and market risk across scenarios
- Build relationships with Nordic utilities, generators, developers, and trading desks
- Develop long-term procurement plans with construction, site acquisition, and finance stakeholders
- Select counterparties, volume mix, pricing certainty, and market-risk exposure within the approved mandate
Benefits
- Cash and equity compensation
- Fringe benefits
