Verda
IT Procurement Specialist
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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 various fringe benefits (healthcare, wellbeing, and more).
- Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.
- 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.
About the role
As an IT Procurement Specialist you will support and develop the procurement of technology, software, hardware, and IT-related services across Verda. You'll work closely with IT, Security, Finance, People, and teams across the business to help ensure we have the right solutions in place, with the right commercial and operational arrangements behind them.
This is a hands-on and cross-functional role. You'll need to be comfortable managing the details of procurement processes while also understanding the broader business requirements behind them. As Verda continues to grow, there will be plenty of opportunity to improve how we approach IT procurement and vendor management.
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Your responsibilities
- Own the procurement of hardware, software, services, and other IT-related requirements across all of the Verda group
- Manage contract renewals, pricing discussions, and ongoing vendor relationships
- Assess vendors and solutions from commercial, operational, security, and compliance perspectives
- Identify opportunities to improve procurement processes and reduce unnecessary cost or complexity
- Maintain processes for IT procurement and vendor management as Verda scales
- Work closely with IT and other teams to understand requirements and identify appropriate solutions
- Work with vendors and suppliers to gather information, negotiate terms, and resolve issues
- Maintain visibility over Verda's IT vendors, contracts, subscriptions, and commitments
- Work with Finance and other teams on budgets, purchasing, and cost management
- Support additional procurement and operational projects as the needs of the business evolve
Your key competencies
- The ideal candidate has previous experience in IT procurement end to end, and is good at keeping things moving while the processes are still being built.
- 5+ years of experience in IT procurement
- Strong commercial judgement and the ability to assess value beyond simply the lowest price
- Strong attention to detail, particularly around contracts, pricing, cataloguing, and commercial terms
- Highly organised, with strong follow-through and ownership of the processes you run
- Ability to understand what teams across the business need and translate it into procurement decisions
- Ability to build effective relationships with vendors and with stakeholders across technical and non-technical teams
- Comfortable working independently, deciding with incomplete information, and improving processes as requirements change
- Good written and spoken English
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Nice to have
- Experience procuring hardware
- Exposure to international IT procurement pipelines
- Familiarity with IT vendor risk management
- Experience working with IT, Security, Finance, or Legal teams
- Experience in a technology, cloud, SaaS, or rapidly scaling company
- Familiarity with procurement or vendor management systems
- Understanding of information security and compliance considerations in technology procurement
Practicalities
- Location: Helsinki, Finland or London, United Kingdom
- Hybrid mode: Working 3 days a week in the office
- Employment type: Full time and permanent
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.
Please submit your application through our Careers page. We don't accept applications sent by email.
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