Logistics Manager
Paris-based AI company building frontier models, AI applications, developer tools, and compute infrastructure for enterprise and public-sector deployments.
About Mistral AI
Mistral AI develops open-weight and commercial language models and provides a full-stack AI platform spanning agents, application development, custom-model training, APIs, and AI cloud infrastructure.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will manage the movement, custody, inventory, and readiness of high-value infrastructure hardware and materials. You will coordinate shipments, receiving, storage, reverse logistics, spares, suppliers, and customs requirements. You will lead and scale regional logistics capabilities while maintaining secure, traceable, cost-controlled, and safe operations.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in logistics, supply chain, warehouse operations, hardware deployment, or inventory management
- Hands-on experience coordinating high-value equipment shipments, third-party providers, site receiving, stock controls, and reverse logistics
- Ability to establish auditable inventory processes and analyze operational data
- Working knowledge of transport, handling, and workplace safety requirements
- Ability to engage customs and international trade-compliance specialists
- Strong cross-functional communication, supplier-management, and problem-solving skills
- Professional English
- Willingness to travel to operational sites
Responsibilities
- Plan inbound and outbound hardware movements across sites and staging locations
- Translate deployment schedules and bills of materials into shipment and delivery plans
- Coordinate site receiving, access, loading, storage, and installation logistics
- Maintain escalation paths, contingency plans, and recovery actions for logistics dependencies
- Create procedures for goods receipt, inspection, staging, handover, and proof of delivery
- Manage reverse logistics, repair exchanges, warranty returns, redeployments, and end-of-life assets
- Maintain inventory and asset-control processes for serialized equipment
- Set and monitor critical spare-parts policies
- Establish stock-movement controls, cycle counts, physical inventories, and discrepancy investigations
- Coordinate secure storage and handling requirements
- Manage logistics providers, freight forwarders, warehouses, rigging partners, and couriers
- Coordinate cross-border shipping and trade-compliance requirements
- Monitor logistics costs and supplier performance
- Develop continuity plans for shipment disruptions and urgent hardware replacement
- Build, lead, and scale regional logistics teams
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage
- Parental leave
- Retirement plans
- Relocation support
- Wellness programs
- Meal allowances
- Transportation allowances