Logistics Manager

<h2><strong>About Mistral</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Mistral provides full-stack AI solutions: from frontier models to developer tools, applications, and compute. We partner with enterprises tackling the hardest problems across high-stakes industries like finance, manufacturing, defense, healthcare, and the public sector, co-creating customized AI systems that they can run on their terms.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are a dynamic, collaborative team passionate about AI and its potential to transform society. Our diverse workforce thrives in competitive environments and is committed to driving innovation. Our teams are distributed between Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. We are creative, low-ego and team-spirited.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1><strong>Our mission</strong></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">Build and scale the logistics capabilities that enable Mistral AI to deploy, operate and expand high-density compute infrastructure reliably. Own the flow, custody, traceability and readiness of high-value hardware, critical spares and associated materials - from supplier dispatch through site receipt, storage, deployment, repair and end-of-life disposition. Deliver speed without compromising safety, inventory integrity, security or cost control.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1><strong>Operating context &amp; accountability</strong></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">You will coordinate closely with Data Center Operations, IT Operations, deployment teams, Procurement, Finance, Security, Safety, colocation operators, carriers and OEM service partners. The role owns Mistral logistics processes and supplier performance.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h1><strong>Key responsibilities - deployment logistics and site readiness</strong></h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Plan inbound and outbound movements for accelerator servers, racks, networking equipment, CDUs, replacement parts, tooling and deployment consumables across sites and staging locations.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Translate deployment schedules and bill-of-materials requirements into shipment plans, delivery windows, site receiving capacity, material availability and clear responsibility assignments.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Coordinate with business partners and site teams on loading bays, access approvals, delivery routes, floor loading, rack handling, lift plans, packaging removal, temporary storage and installation sequencing.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Identify logistics dependencies that could delay energization, commissioning, rack acceptance or compute availability; maintain escalation paths, contingency plans and recovery actions.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Create consistent procedures for goods receipt, inspection, damage recording, quarantine, staging, pick/pack, handover and proof of delivery, including exceptions and nonconformances.</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Manage reverse logistics for defective equipment, repair exchanges, warranty returns, redeployments and end-of-life assets, with documented chain of custody and secure disposition.</p></li></ul><h1><strong>Key responsibilities - inventory, spares and asset traceability</strong></h1><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Define and maintain an accurate inventory and asset-control framework for Mistral-o