Junior Procurement Specialist, UK in London

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. 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.

About the role: Verda's procurement needs are growing. More data centres, 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 UK 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:

• 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.
• Proficiency in both Mandarin and English.
• Comfortable working 5 days a week in our London office.

Nice to have:

• Any exposure to hardware, technology, or data centre 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.

Practicalities:

• Work mode: On-site, full-time office presence 5 days a week in London. 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: None specified in the original.
• 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.