Procurement Manager

At Verda, we're building a full-stack AI cloud, covering everything from data centers and hardware to our own cloud platform that the world's leading AI teams use to do serious AI work.

We strive to make a positive mark on the world through the infrastructure we build and give leading teams a service they can truly depend on. Headquartered in Helsinki, we operate globally with offices in London and San Francisco.

Join Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished.

Why Verda

• Cash and equity compensation along with local benefits.

• 40+ nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.

• A real chance to make an impact and work alongside world class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.

Practicalities

• Work mode: Hybrid, based in Helsinki

• Level: Lead

• Employment type: Full time and permanent

About the role

As Procurement Manager, you’ll lead a team of 10 to 15 people across Taiwan, the UK and Finland, and build our procurement function from the ground up. We buy GPUs, servers, networking and data center hardware faster than most procurement teams were built to handle, and you’ll make sure we secure the right hardware, at the right cost, in time for every data center build. You’ll set the processes, own key supplier relationships and be the person the rest of the business comes to for anything procurement.

Your responsibilities

• Lead the procurement team directly and through a Team Lead in Taiwan. Coach a young team, manage performance and help with the daily work.

• Build our procurement processes: sourcing, purchase-to-pay, supplier onboarding, approvals, contracts and reporting.

• Own relationships with selected OEMs, ODMs and distributors: negotiate, escalate and secure allocation in tight markets.

• Be the single front door for stakeholder requests from Infrastructure, Engineering, Finance and Operations. Set priorities and protect the team’s focus.

• Plan purchasing around data center build schedules, and manage supply risk, lead times and total cost of ownership.

Your key competencies

You’re a hands-on procurement leader who has built processes where none existed, knows how to secure supply in tight hardware markets, and enjoys developing a young team across countries.

• 4+ years in global procurement or supply chain, ideally in data center hardware, servers, GPUs or another tech supply chain.

• Experience leading teams across countries, including through a team lead, and a real interest in developing junior people.

• A track record of building procurement processes where none existed.

• Strong vendor and stakeholder management, and the confidence to say no or “not yet”.

• A hands-on attitude: you’re as comfortable working a purchase order as you are presenting to leadership.

• Fluent English.

Nice to have

• Direct experience negotiating GPU or server allocation with OEMs or ODMs.

• Experience working with suppliers in Taiwan or wider APAC.

• Experience setting up or improving ERP or purchase-to-pay systems.

• Experience in a fast-scaling company or a function built from scratch.

• Mandarin language skills.

What's next

We're building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There's no artificial deadline, but when we find who we're looking for, we move. If this sounds like your next move, apply now.

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