Logistics & Trade Compliance Specialist

Hub; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Global team environment

Job summary

Verda is sourcing a Logistics and Trade Compliance Specialist to manage cross-border hardware movements, from supplier to data center and back. You will classify shipments, document clearance, and verify export controls before dispatch, ensuring on-time deployments and optimized freight spend.

The role requires hands-on customs experience, familiarity with HS classification, Incoterms, and working with brokers, forwarders and 3PLs to maintain auditable records and cost control.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years in international logistics and freight operations.
• Solid knowledge of HS classification, origin, valuation and Incoterms.
• Familiarity with sanctions and export controls for high‑value hardware.
• Experience working with carriers, freight forwarders and 3PLs.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate inbound, outbound and intercompany shipments, including equipment deliveries and site transfers; resolve delays, loss, damage and claims.
• Prepare and check customs and shipping documentation (HS classification, origin, valuation, invoices).
• Review broker submissions; ensure auditable records.
• Oversee export controls, licensing and shipment approvals.
• Track costs, lead times and performance with forwarders and brokers; flag savings opportunities.
• Check delivery commitments and Incoterms with suppliers and procurement.
• Suggest improvements to landed costs and freight routes; support logistics process improvements.

Skills

International logistics

Customs compliance

Incoterms

Freight forwarders coordination

Education

Logistics qualifications

Tools

ERP systems (SAP)

Transport management systems

Job description

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 local benefits.

• 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.

Practicalities

• Work mode: {Hybrid, based in London or across EMEA, with travel as projects require

• Level: Mid

• Employment type: Full time and permanent

About the role

As Logistics and Trade Compliance Specialist, you’ll own how our hardware moves across borders, from supplier to data center and back again. You’ll make sure every shipment is correctly classified, documented and cleared, and that export controls and sanctions are checked before anything leaves the dock. Your work keeps our data center deployments on schedule, keeps freight and storage costs in check, and frees our Inventory and Procurement teams to focus on their own work.

Your responsibilities

• Coordinate inbound, outbound and intercompany shipments, including equipment deliveries, site transfers, returns and RMAs. Work with Procurement and Hardware on delivery schedules and receiving requirements, and resolve delays, loss, damage and claims.

• Prepare and check customs and shipping documentation, including HS classification, origin, valuation and commercial invoices. Review broker submissions, spot errors and keep auditable records.

• Oversee export controls, licensing and shipment approvals.

• Work with our forwarders, brokers and 3PL partners day to day, tracking cost, lead times and performance, and flagging issues and savings.

• Check Incoterms, delivery commitments and tracking requirements with suppliers, together with Procurement.

• Keep landed costs and emergency freight under control and suggest better freight routes.

• Help improve logistics processes, tracking and reporting as we grow.

Your key competencies

• 5-7 years in international logistics, freight or supply chain operations, including hands-on customs and import/export work.

• Solid practical knowledge of customs and trade compliance: HS classification, origin, valuation, Incoterms, shipping documentation, importer-of-record arrangements, and import VAT and duty.

• Familiarity with sanctions and export controls, especially for high-performance computing hardware.

• Experience working with carriers, freight forwarders and/or 3PLs.

• Good understanding of landed costs and comparing shipping options on cost, lead time and risk.

Nice to have

• Experience with technology or data centre equipment, such as GPU servers, or other high-value hardware.

• Familiarity with suppliers across APAC, or Mandarin, Japanese or another relevant language.

• Experience with ERP, warehouse or transport management systems (SAP is a plus).

• Experience with reverse logistics, such as returns, repairs and redeployment.

• Relevant qualifications in logistics, supply chain or trade compliance.

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.