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Head of Commodities Trading
Job Description
Their activities span market-driven sourcing, commercial execution, logistics, and downstream processing, connecting producers, processors, and end markets through disciplined, regulated operations.
The organization is privately held, highly relationship-driven, and known for its attention to detail, integrity, and long-term partnerships. Business here is personal, commitments matter, and execution is everything.
Head of Commodities Trading Responsibilities.
- Final authority on risk for all material positions prior to execution
- Full oversight of 25 traders across multiple desks and commodities
- Pressure-test trade logic, exposure, hedge structure, and downside scenarios
- Set long/short direction and capital allocation across the platform
- Own quarterly and annual P&L outlooks, delivery, and variance
- Hold the organization accountable for preventable losses and missed margin
- Lead, coach, and make decisive talent calls, elevate performers, correct gaps, and exit where required
- Align desk capacity, succession, and hiring with growth and risk appetite
- Own client exposure, counterparty risk, and credit discipline
- Protect long-term relationships while enforcing disciplined commercial execution
- 10+ years trading physical commodities, ideally agriculture, energy or industrial inputs
- Lived through real cycles, tight supply, oversupply, volatility spikes, margin compression and know how to manage risk through them.
- Comfortable pressure-testing trades before they hit the market structure, exposure, hedge logic, and worst-case downside.
- Experience leading a desk or senior traders, not just running your own book.
- You think in terms of total exposure and total P&L not just “my position”.
Ready to step away from managing a personal book to own risk discipline and performance across the organization.
- The discussed salary range is $110 000 to $125 000 depending on experience
- Comprehensive benefits package
- Aggressive bonuses based on company and personal performance [anywhere from 45 to 70K]
- Join a tight, experienced team with low turnover and high morale, a group that works as one, challenges each other respectfully, and takes real pride in disciplined execution.
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Meet Your Recruiter
Danielle Bragge
Managing Director & Co-Founder
Recruiting Specialty: Operations & Engineering
Danielle has had a rewarding career of over 30 years of recruiting in Canada and South Africa, including co-founding The Headhunters in 2009. Drawing on this extensive recruitment experience and managing the operations of her own businesses, she specializes in the placement of operations and engineering professionals. Focusing on senior-level searches, she has recruited coast-to-coast across a variety of industries, including manufacturing, energy, technology and construction.
Danielle’s business achievements are predicated on people, since she understands profoundly that companies are successful because of the individuals they hire and the leadership they cultivate. She partners with her clients to resolve critical vacancies, and with her highly consultative approach, helps them develop long-term human capital strategies to drive growth and sustainability.
Rising quickly during her early career through the ranks of Fortune 500 and Deloitte Best Managed companies in various management roles, Danielle was previously named one of the Top 100 Women in Business in Alberta. A mother of five, she strongly believes in balancing family, work and service to the community. In keeping with that spirit, she and her family run a not-for-profit organization called Saving the Hungry, leading teams to support community projects in developing countries.