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Strategy Manager- Carbon and Silica Technologies

Locations US-MA-Billerica
Requisition ID
2024-12335
# of Openings Remaining
1
Position Type
Regular Full-Time

Your Role at Cabot

As Senior Strategy Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the strategy for our Carbon and Silica Technologies businesses. It is a great opportunity to lead the charge in developing cutting-edge solutions that contribute to a sustainable future. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, engage with industry experts, and drive initiatives that will define the trajectory of our business in this rapidly evolving landscape.

 

Your responsibilities will extend to defining and implementing comprehensive global strategic plans for Business Units (BUs), with a focus on leading the development of BU-specific projects related to organic and inorganic growth) to include overseeing the BU Long Range Plan (LRP). This role reports directly to the Director of Global Marketing and Strategy.

How You Will Make an Impact

  • Lead comprehensive business unit (BU) strategies, aligning them with overall corporate goals.
  • Own and oversee the BU's Long-Range Plan (LRP), ensuring it reflects the strategic direction and growth objectives of the business unit.
  • Analyze upstream and downstream industry landscapes, market trends, industry growth drivers, and competitive activity.
  • Utilize insights gained from industry analysis to inform and adjust BU strategies, ensuring alignment with market dynamics.
  • Lead the development of business cases for BU-specific organic projects including expansions and debottlenecking projects,
  • Play a pivotal role in negotiating long-term contracts, leveraging business insights to secure favorable terms for the BU.
  • Lead asset road-mapping, and strategic pricing projects
  • Drive business transformation initiatives, overseeing changes that enhance operational efficiency and competitiveness.
  • Act as business partner to BU- Collaborate closely with BU commercial teams, providing strategic guidance and support during high-impact negotiations.
  • Develop and implement BU inorganic strategy and drive M&A and partnership activities for BU by working with key internal and external stakeholders to deliver desired outcomes

What You Will Bring to Cabot

 

  • Technical Applications Knowledge. Knowledgeable about Cabot’s technical capabilities and applications and how they complement performance of customer.
  • Analytical Ability & Financial Acumen. Strong analytic skills is a must. Ability to identify and analyze what is important and recognize depth of analysis needed. Ability to interpret and synthesize issues to draw conclusions. Knowledgeable of policies, practices, trends, and information affecting the business; adept at building and interpreting financial models
  • Communications & Presentation Skills. Ability to engage in all internal and external presentation settings in a manner that is timely, relevant, and appropriate to the environment.
  • Organizational & Interpersonal Engagement. Ability to work in close alignment with people from other functions and influence/engage others to address issues, resolve conflicts.
  • Project Ownership & Management. Ability to take ownership for ensuring desired outcome of project and establish and monitor milestones towards objectives. Strong project management background will be an advantage.
  • Strategic Agility. Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulate possibilities and create breakthrough plans
  • Dealing with Ambiguity. Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
  • Priority Setting. Spends his/her time and the time of others on what’s important; quickly zeros in on the critical few and puts the trivial many aside; can quickly sense what will help or hinder accomplishing a goal; eliminates roadblocks; creates focus.

 

Education/Experience

  • Bachelor/University degree in science, engineering, or finance preferred. Experience leading strategic projects, strategic planning process, M&A and/or strategic marketing preferred. MBA is strongly preferred
  • 10+ years’ experience in business with focus in business management, strategic planning, strategic marketing or M&A
  • Experience in B2B chemicals, industrial, or manufacturing industries required

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About Cabot


Cabot Corporation (NYSE: CBT) is a leading global specialty chemicals and performance materials company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Our businesses deliver a broad range of products and solutions to customers in every corner of the globe, serving the transportation, infrastructure, environment and consumer industry sectors. We bring the power of innovative chemistry to solve customers' challenges today while preparing them to meet tomorrow’s needs. Our commitment to innovation is driven by a passion to advance our customers' businesses through our deep understanding of their applications and the global trends that impact their operations.

Innovation that drives sustainability

Many of the world’s greatest sustainability challenges are fundamentally chemistry problems. We can convert the mobility sector from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, but this requires batteries with greater range and lower cost. This is fundamentally a chemistry challenge. We can have a zero-energy building, but this requires high performance insulation, efficient solar panels, and energy storage solutions. Each of these are fundamentally chemistry challenges.

At Cabot, we bring the power of innovative chemistry and a spirit of partnership with our customers to advance solutions that will enable a sustainable future. Our strength in research and development is a major reason why we have been an industry leader for more than 135 years in products such as reinforcing and specialty carbons, battery materials, aerogel, fumed metal oxides, inkjet colorants, masterbatches and conductive compounds.

Our employees around the world are united by our shared purpose: Creating materials that improve daily life and enable a more sustainable future. Through our corporate strategy, “Creating for Tomorrow,” we are focused on our core strengths to lead in performance and sustainability – today and into the future.



EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled


Realizing we function better together than individually, Cabot Corporation is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that embraces our differences and to empower employees to achieve exceptional results, without consideration of sex, race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, marital or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other legally protected categories. This includes providing reasonable accommodation for employees’ and applicants’ disabilities or religious beliefs and practices, in accordance with applicable law.

Nondiscrimination Policy with Respect to Discussion of Pay


This is to advise that it is the policy of Cabot Corporation not to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant. This policy, however, shall not apply to instances in which an employee who has access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as part of that employee's essential job functions (such as in payroll or HR) discloses the compensation of such other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to such information, unless that disclosure is in response to a formal complaint or charge, in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing or other action, including an investigation conducted by Cabot, or otherwise as required by law.

Pre-Employment Drug Testing and Background Checks


Cabot is proud to operate as a drug-free workplace. All applicants conditionally offered a position must (a) complete and pass a background check and (b) complete a drug test and receive an acceptable test result. For certain manufacturing, quality and production positions, a pre-employment physical may be required.

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