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Receptionist, Cabot Headquarters - Boston, MA Onsite

Locations US-MA-Boston
Requisition ID
2025-13023
# of Openings Remaining
1
Position Type
Regular Full-Time

Your Role at Cabot

Cabot Corporation is seeking a front desk Receptionist to join the team at the headquarters Boston, MA location. This critical role represents our team and serves as the first point of contact for guests, vendors, catering services, etc. visiting our busy office from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday. Additionally, this person ensures the efficient flow of delivery receipt, visitor processing, and event support.

This individual’s role will include supporting day-to-day operations, greeting guests and vendors when they arrive on-site, explaining how to navigate our office, managing our incoming and outgoing mail, delivering packages. As well as stocking the kitchen and maintaining weekly supply inventory.

The ideal candidate will be friendly, resourceful, and proactive in managing a wide range of administrative and front-desk responsibilities.

 

How You Will Make an Impact

  • Coordinate badging and hotel office assignments, handle deliveries, and support set-up and clean-up for in-office events.
  • Greet and welcome guests as soon as they arrive at the office
  • Direct visitors to the appropriate person and office
  • Ensure reception area is tidy and presentable
  • Receive, sort and distribute daily mail/deliveries
  • Maintain office security by following safety procedures and controlling access via the reception desk (monitor logbook, issue visitor badges)
  • Order café/kitchen and office supplies and keep inventory of stock
  • Update office calendars and schedule conference rooms and hotel offices/desks
  • Perform other clerical receptionist duties such as filing, photocopying, and scanning mail

 

What You Will Bring to Cabot

  • High school diploma or equivalent required
  • Associate or bachelor’s degree preferred
  • 2+ years of relevant work experience in a front facing role (reception/front desk/similar role) in a professional setting
  • Experience working with external vendors, visitor processing, catering services is preferred
  • Ability to accommodate regular in-office presence required during core hours (7:30 AM – 4:00 PM)
  • Dependable, punctual, and able to maintain professionalism at all times
  • Professional attitude and appearance
  • Solid written and verbal communication skills
  • Problem-solving skills with an ability to be resourceful and proactive when issues arise
  • Excellent organizational skills
  • Multitasking and time-management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite (including Excel, Word, MS Teams)
  • Strong communication and people skills
  • Customer service oriented

 

How We’ll Support Your Success:

  • Dynamic, Flexible, Hard Working, Team Environment – We are busy, collaborative, growing, and we are doing really meaningful work.
  • High Visibility – This role sets the tone for the professional image of the office. You ensure a positive experience for both employees and guests.
  • Meaningful Work that is Valued – Customers are demanding sustainable solutions without compromising quality or performance. The work we do is visible, and is helping to create a more abundant, affordable, and cleaner future. It is an awesome feeling to know you’re making a living by making a positive impact in the world; and to be able to say, “I was a part of that.”
  • Benefits, Vacation, Etc. – We offer a competitive package of benefits. Benefits begin on first day of employment. Cabot Benefits
  • Feedback – We are committed to giving and receiving feedback in a direct and open fashion.
  • Support – You are part of a team and deserve to feel encouraged and supported. We have a global team of engineers that are willing to help. You will be part of a team that cares about you personally and professionally. Our success depends on your success.

 

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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/RC14001


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.

Cabot is committed to supporting and maintaining a safe and environmentally focused working environment. All employees are expected to uphold this commitment in every position.

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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