VP GPU Compute Procurement

WNTD

London
Permanent
Hybrid
£250,000 - £300,000/year
Compute Infrastructure Procurement Direct experience procuring GPUs, servers, networking or related AI infrastructure hardware.Strategic Supplier & OEM Management Experience building and managing senior relationships with OEMs or critical suppliers. Includes negotiating high value hardware agreements, securing supply, and managing allocation in constrained markets.AI Infrastructure Supply Chain

Role Overview We are hiring a VP GPU Compute Procurement for a next-generation AI infrastructure platform building AI factories at industrial scale.

This is a high-impact leadership role at the intersection of compute supply, capital deployment, and infrastructure buildout.

You will be responsible for how the platform secures GPU and hardware supply in a constrained global market, ensuring capacity is delivered reliably, at speed, and at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Compute Procurement Strategy Own end-to-end procurement across GPUs, servers, networking, and critical AI infrastructure hardware.

Strategic Supplier Relationships Build and manage senior relationships with OEMs and key ecosystem partners, ensuring priority access, allocation and commercial advantage.

Commercial Leadership Lead high-value negotiations across critical infrastructure categories, protecting time to capacity and maintaining cost discipline.

Capacity & Deployment Alignment Work closely with leadership, engineering and infrastructure teams to align procurement with long-term buildout and deployment timelines.

Function Buildout Establish and scale a procurement function capable of supporting a rapidly growing, industrial-scale AI platform.

Required Experience

  • Direct experience in compute procurement or hardware supply chain leadership
  • Background within a hyperscaler, AI cloud platform, NVIDIA ecosystem business, system partner, or relevant OEM
  • Strong understanding of GPU supply dynamics, allocation constraints, lead times and pricing pressure
  • Proven track record negotiating large-scale hardware or infrastructure agreements
  • Commercially strong, credible with senior stakeholders, and able to operate in a fast-moving build environment

What This Role Is Not

This is not a traditional enterprise procurement role. It is not indirect procurement. It is not data centre construction procurement without compute exposure. It is not programme or delivery management.

This is a strategic procurement role focused on securing and scaling compute infrastructure.