Procurement Manager
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 lead a procurement team across Taiwan, the UK, and Finland while building procurement processes from the ground up. You will manage supplier relationships, plan purchasing around data center schedules, and manage supply risk, lead times, and total cost of ownership.
Requirements
- 4+ years of global procurement or supply chain experience.
- Experience in data center hardware, servers, GPUs, or another technology supply chain.
- Experience leading teams across countries, including through a team lead.
- Experience building procurement processes.
- Vendor and stakeholder management skills.
- Fluent English.
Responsibilities
- Lead and coach the procurement team directly and through a Team Lead in Taiwan.
- Build procurement processes for sourcing, purchase-to-pay, supplier onboarding, approvals, contracts, and reporting.
- Own selected OEM, ODM, and distributor relationships.
- Negotiate, escalate, and secure hardware allocation in tight markets.
- Prioritize stakeholder requests from Infrastructure, Engineering, Finance, and Operations.
- Plan purchasing around data center build schedules.
- Manage supply risk, lead times, and total cost of ownership.
Benefits
- Cash and equity compensation.
- Local benefits.