Procurement Specialist

Imagine a future where everyone has instant, low-cost access to intelligence. We’re building a fully featured European AI cloud - with everything one needs to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models. In addition, our GPUs run on 100% renewable energy. We’re ambitious, curious, and gutsy doers. We practice a low hierarchy across the company and high morale in our teams. At Verda, we're building a fully featured European AI cloud, covering everything needed to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models at scale. We are a full-stack AI infrastructure company, meaning we design, operate, and optimize the compute powering modern AI workloads across training and inference. Our infrastructure runs on 100% renewable energy, helping build a more sustainable AI ecosystem. Join Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished. About the role Verda has a hardware supply chain that spans Taiwan, Japan, the US, and Europe. Taiwan is one of our top-priority markets and the Senior Procurement Specialist here will own it independently, sourcing hardware, managing suppliers, coordinating logistics, and handling the commercial agreements that keep everything moving. This is a role for someone who thrives with ownership. You'll be Verda's procurement presence in Taiwan, working closely with the central team in Finland while running operations with a high degree of independence. What You’ll Do - Own end-to-end procurement: sourcing components and servers, issuing RFQs, evaluating quotations, negotiating pricing, placing orders, and tracking delivery through to invoice reconciliation - Define and execute sourcing strategies for key hardware categories, identifying the right vendors, developing new supplier relationships, and building the supply options that give Verda flexibility and competitive pricing - Manage supplier relationships day-to-day: performance tracking, lead time management, issue escalation, and RMA coordination - Coordinate inbound and outbound logistics for our data centers, customs clearance, shipment tracking, and resolving delivery issues before they become operational problems - Support CAPEX planning and procurement forecasting in close coordination with the Finland-based procurement team and Finance - Review and manage procurement contracts and supply agreements, covering delivery terms, SLAs, liability, and price escalation, coordinating with Legal when escalation is needed - Maintain accurate procurement documentation: purchase orders, invoices, contracts, and supplier records - Develop new vendors and maintain a market view on hardware pricing, availability, and supply trends relevant to Verda's hardware categories What We’re Looking For - 5+ years in procurement, supply chain, or vendor management in a hardware, technology infrastructure, or data center environment - Proven ability to run end-to-end procurement independently, from receiving a purchase request through to delivery confirmation and invoice reconciliation. You don't need a process to be handed to you - Strong negotiation skills: you've negotiated hardware supply agreements, volume pricing, and delivery terms and can evidence the outcomes - Comfortable with logistics coordination and international shipping, customs clearance, Incoterms, freight forwarding, and the practical reality of moving hardware across borders - Able to review and manage commercial contracts without routing everything through Legal first: you understand what you're signing and what exposure it creates - Comfortable with full-time office presence five days a week, given the operational nature of the role (on-site coordination, logistics, and hands-on procurement work). This isn't a remote or hybrid position - Proficiency in both Mandarin and English Nice to have - Experience procuring GPU servers, AI accelerators, or data center infrastructure hardware. Familiarity with server ODMs and the supply dynamics of this market - Understanding of Asian supply chains, ODM and OEM procurement from Taiwan, Japan, or mainland China, including lead time and allocation dynamics - Experience in a scaling startup or high-growth environment where structure was still being built while work was being executed - Additional languages relevant to our supply chain: Japanese, or a major European language Practicalities - Work mode: On-site, full-time office presence 5 days a week in our Taipei office. Given the operational nature of the role (on-site coordination, logistics, and hands-on procurement work), this isn't a remote or hybrid position - Travel: Frequent domestic and international travel - Employment type: Full-time and permanent