About the role
Position: Commodity Manager
Location: Toronto (Hybrid / On-site as needed)
Company: Vanguard
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About Vanguard:
Vanguard partners with organizations across North America to build smarter, leaner, and more resilient supply chains. Our clients count on us to lead sourcing strategy, supplier optimization, and cost reduction across complex categories. We are currently hiring a Commodity Manager in Winnipeg to lead strategic sourcing initiatives and manage key supplier relationships.
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Role Overview:
As Commodity Manager, you’ll take ownership of a portfolio of direct or indirect categories, develop sourcing strategies, and negotiate supplier agreements to maximize value. You’ll work cross-functionally with engineering, operations, and finance to ensure cost competitiveness, risk mitigation, and supply continuity.
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Key Responsibilities:
• Develop and execute commodity strategies aligned with business and operational goals
• Lead supplier selection, negotiation, and contract management activities
• Monitor market trends, cost drivers, and supply chain risks for assigned categories
• Build and manage supplier performance scorecards and corrective action plans
• Collaborate with internal teams to support product development, cost engineering, and quality assurance
• Identify opportunities for cost reduction, standardization, and value creation across the supply base
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Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, category management, or commodity buying
• Experience in manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, or industrial sectors preferred
• Strong negotiation and analytical skills; ability to work across technical and commercial stakeholders
• Proficiency in ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, or similar) and sourcing tools
• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, or engineering
• Bilingual (English/French) is an asset
About Vanguard
Since our founding in 1975, we’ve been on a mission helping investors achieve their goals. We’re built differently. Vanguard is investor-owned, meaning that we’re owned by our funds, which are owned by our fund shareholder clients.
With no outside shareholders to answer to, we make decisions—including keeping investing costs as low as possible—with our clients’ needs in mind. Whether you’re investing for your first house, college for your kids, or a comfortable retirement, you can be confident we’re on your side. That’s the value of ownership!
We are a community who think—and feel—differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests.
Community guidelines: vgi.vg/sgl1
About the role
Position: Commodity Manager
Location: Toronto (Hybrid / On-site as needed)
Company: Vanguard
⸻
About Vanguard:
Vanguard partners with organizations across North America to build smarter, leaner, and more resilient supply chains. Our clients count on us to lead sourcing strategy, supplier optimization, and cost reduction across complex categories. We are currently hiring a Commodity Manager in Winnipeg to lead strategic sourcing initiatives and manage key supplier relationships.
⸻
Role Overview:
As Commodity Manager, you’ll take ownership of a portfolio of direct or indirect categories, develop sourcing strategies, and negotiate supplier agreements to maximize value. You’ll work cross-functionally with engineering, operations, and finance to ensure cost competitiveness, risk mitigation, and supply continuity.
⸻
Key Responsibilities:
• Develop and execute commodity strategies aligned with business and operational goals
• Lead supplier selection, negotiation, and contract management activities
• Monitor market trends, cost drivers, and supply chain risks for assigned categories
• Build and manage supplier performance scorecards and corrective action plans
• Collaborate with internal teams to support product development, cost engineering, and quality assurance
• Identify opportunities for cost reduction, standardization, and value creation across the supply base
⸻
Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, category management, or commodity buying
• Experience in manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, or industrial sectors preferred
• Strong negotiation and analytical skills; ability to work across technical and commercial stakeholders
• Proficiency in ERP systems (SAP, Oracle, or similar) and sourcing tools
• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, or engineering
• Bilingual (English/French) is an asset
About Vanguard
Since our founding in 1975, we’ve been on a mission helping investors achieve their goals. We’re built differently. Vanguard is investor-owned, meaning that we’re owned by our funds, which are owned by our fund shareholder clients.
With no outside shareholders to answer to, we make decisions—including keeping investing costs as low as possible—with our clients’ needs in mind. Whether you’re investing for your first house, college for your kids, or a comfortable retirement, you can be confident we’re on your side. That’s the value of ownership!
We are a community who think—and feel—differently about investing. Together, we’re changing the way the world invests.
Community guidelines: vgi.vg/sgl1