Senior Procurement Specialist
Verda (formerly DataCrunch) is a Helsinki-headquartered full-stack AI cloud provider offering on-demand GPU compute, self-service clusters, serverless containers, storage, and inference infrastructure.
Funding history
About Verda
Founded in Helsinki in 2020, Verda operates European AI cloud infrastructure across physical data centers, hardware, a cloud platform, and AI research. DataCrunch renamed to Verda in November 2025 without changing its service offering.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will independently manage end-to-end US procurement for hardware and servers. You will source suppliers, negotiate agreements, coordinate logistics and customs, forecast procurement needs, maintain records, and monitor pricing, availability, and supply trends.
Requirements
- 5+ years of procurement, supply chain, or vendor management experience
- Hardware procurement
- Data center infrastructure
- GPU server
- AI accelerator
- Server ODM
- Server OEM
- End-to-end procurement
- RFQ
- Quotation evaluation
- Negotiation
- Logistics
- International shipping
- Customs clearance
- Incoterms
- Freight forwarding
- Commercial contract management
- Mandarin
- English
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end procurement for US operations
- Source components and servers, issue RFQs, evaluate quotations, and place orders
- Define sourcing strategies and develop supplier relationships
- Track supplier performance, lead times, escalations, and RMAs
- Coordinate data-center logistics, customs clearance, and shipment tracking
- Support CAPEX planning and procurement forecasting
- Review procurement contracts and supply agreements
- Maintain purchase orders, invoices, contracts, and supplier records
- Monitor hardware pricing, availability, and supply trends
Benefits
- Equity compensation
- Fringe benefits