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Principal Procurement Lead
👔 AI Infrastructure Startup
📍 London - Hybrid (once per week)
💵 £100-120k + Equity
Do you want to work for a pioneering GPUaaS company that’s redefining how AI infrastructure is built, scaled, and consumed?
Do you want to help build out a procurement function from scratch, working with pioneering AI, and NVIDIA vendors?
This is a Principal Procurement Lead role at an AI infrastructure company that builds its own cloud from the ground up. Not renting someone else's compute. Owning the full stack from datacentre to software.
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You'd be taking on a number of mission-critical vendor relationships from launch and will be managing RFIs, through purchasing to acceptance. There will be a high hardware spend over the coming year, and you will be in charge of managing that. You will also be tasked with pro-actively seeking out new vendors where cost-savings can be taken advantage of.
You'll need to be commercially savvy too, and know the difference between CAPEX and OPEX and be able to generate TCO comparisons between options. Legal awareness on contracts is critical too, as well as the ability to negotiate.
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You'll need:
- Distinguished procurement background, ideally within hardware
- Strong technical background (doesn't have to be GPU/NVIDIA, but should have strong knowledge of datacentres/physical infra)
- Vendor Management (ideally the likes of Dell, HPE, Bull, Weka, Vast, PureStorage, Lenovo)
- Contract negotiation
- Account management / Pre-Sales
- Proven track record within a startup / highly agile environment
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