ABOUT ANDERCORE
Andercore is the AI-native supplier of industrial materials and goods for energy and infrastructure. We execute trade and distribution end-to-end, on our own account, at the speed of compute - and we are becoming the supplier of record for the entire industry.
Industrial procurement is a €900B market in Europe alone and the largest manual market on earth. 95% of customers have no direct access to global supply chains. Materials pass through four or five intermediaries before they reach a site, and 40% of the margin evaporates on the way. For decades, the operating system of this industry was people: people to source, negotiate, finance, ship, and sell.
We built the alternative from scratch. We are the supplier. We buy from global sources and sell to European customers on our own account. Our AI runs the full trade: sourcing, quality, pricing, sales, logistics, credit, and financing. One request. A firm quote in minutes. Delivered on time. For the customer, it feels like buying from their preferred local supplier. No warehouses. No fleet. No inventory risk. Every trade is pre-sold before it is bought.
We are also the credit counterparty. Customers are scored and insured in minutes and get up to 60 days of payment terms priced into the quote itself. The working capital behind every trade is bank-funded, not equity-funded.
Where we are today:
- Strong triple-digit-million euro turnover run rate, the majority of it from repeat customers
- Seven European markets live, sourced from suppliers across Asia and beyond
- 80+ people across Berlin (HQ), London, and Shanghai
- $90M raised in equity and debt, including our $40M Series B, from Atomico, Project A, Target Global, and Inven Capital - with working capital facilities from UniCredit and KfW
The margin is in the bits. The moat is in the atoms. We are building the supplier of record for industrial materials - and redefining how global trade works in one of the largest and most essential industries on earth.
THE ROLE
This is not a traditional procurement role. At Andercore, procurement is trading: fast-paced, market-driven, and executed daily — not on quarterly or annual cycles. You will lead a team of young and hungry category managers, through high-volume purchasing decisions in a dynamic environment where prices, availability, and supplier landscapes shift constantly.
You will own end-to-end procurement strategy and execution: sourcing, onboarding to the system, supplier negotiations and disputes, pricing, team leadership, and process design. We need someone who can think strategically and execute operationally every single day — from setting category strategy to approving individual purchase orders. You will be in the driver seat to build the first AI automated trading engine - a unique opportunity in the industrial supply space.
You report directly to the C level and sit on the commercial and operations leadership team. Andercore uses AI extensively across the business; you will be expected to leverage it to drive efficiency, margins, and scalability in procurement.
The core purpose of this role is to build one buying strategy that combines three things:
- Spot trading, run as a repeatable system with a regular market-coverage schedule and clear KPIs;
- Strategic buying, where you negotiate allocations, framework agreements and terms with Tier-1 manufacturers and develop private-label and direct-from-factory categories;
- Supply planning, where you set the mix of spot, contract and stock and keep price and inventory risk under control.
Each part on its own is not enough. The job is to make them work together so that Andercore buys at the right price, secures supply when the market tightens, and never holds stock it cannot sell.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Build and run the procurement machine: Develop and execute procurement strategies that support an 8-digit monthly procurement spend with exponential growth. Negotiate favourable terms, pricing, and contracts with…