Junior Procurement Specialist, Finland
Early in your procurement career? Verda is hiring a Junior Procurement Specialist in Helsinki to own hardware sourcing and supply chain operations at a fast-scaling European AI company.
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. We’ve already achieved a lot, yet we’re only getting started. Now it’s your chance to join the ride. We offer more than just the job - we offer a career-defining opportunity to be part of building something big!
Join Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished.
Why Verda
Cash + equity compensation along with various fringe benefits (e.g., healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, etc.).
Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.
31 nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.
An opportunity with make a clear impact and work alongside world-class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.
Practicalities
On-site: Given the operational nature of the role — on-site coordination, logistics, and hands-on procurement work — we expect full-time office presence 5 days a week. This isn't a remote or hybrid position.
Employment type: Full-time and permanent.
About the role
Verda's procurement needs in Finland are growing. More data centers, more hardware, more vendors, more orders, and the team needs another person who can get things done reliably, learn the supply chain fast, and take real ownership of procurement tasks from early on.
We're looking for a Junior Procurement Specialist to join the Finland procurement team. You don't need years of experience. You need to be organised, commercially curious, willing to learn how hardware supply chains actually work, and ready to take ownership of tasks rather than wait to be told what to do next.
What you'll do
Support end-to-end procurement operations: receiving purchase requests, issuing RFQs, handling quotations, comparing prices, placing orders, and tracking deliveries.
Coordinate logistics for incoming shipments, order follow-ups, expediting delayed shipments, and working with freight partners on customs and clearance.
Handle invoice reconciliation and maintain accurate procurement documentation in coordination with Finance.
Manage smaller component orders independently, building operational experience across Verda's hardware categories.
Support vendor sourcing and supplier onboarding, researching new vendors, making initial contact, and maintaining supplier records.
Monitor inventory levels and flag shortfalls or discrepancies to the team lead.
Communicate professionally with suppliers and internal teams, assessing priorities, determining the right action, and following up without being chased.
What we're looking for
Required
Some experience in procurement, purchasing, supply chain coordination, logistics, or a commercially oriented operations role. We're open to strong recent graduates with relevant internship or project experience.
Organized and detail-oriented, you track open tasks, follow up proactively, and keep documentation clean without being reminded.
Commercially curious: you want to understand the products you're buying, the vendors you're working with, and the supply chain behind them, not just process the paperwork.
Strong written and spoken English
Comfortable working 5 days a week in our Helsinki office
Strong plus
Any exposure to hardware, technology, or data center procurement — even through internships, university projects, or personal interest in the industry.
Familiarity with procurement or ERP systems, even basic experience with purchase order tools or inventory management.
Background or coursework in international business, supply chain, engineering, or a related field.
Additional languages: Mandarin, Japanese or any Central European language.
What we offer
Real ownership from day one, this is not a shadowing role. You'll be handling live procurement tasks within your first week.
Competitive junior compensation with a clear path to grow into a full Procurement Specialist role as your skills develop.
Front-row exposure to how GPU infrastructure supply chains actually work — one of the most in-demand areas of knowledge in tech right now.
- Department
- Data Center Operations
- Role
- Junior Procurement Specialist
About Verda
Verda (formerly DataCrunch) is a technology company building the next generation of cloud infrastructure for AI – compute that's instant, on-demand and at scale. Headquartered in Helsinki, the company operates globally across Europe, the US and Asia. Verda employs over 100 people from nearly 30 nationalities and has raised over $200M in total funding from investors including Lifeline Ventures, byFounders, J12 Ventures, Skaala, Varma and Tesi, alongside leading financial institutions.