Director - HR Business Partner - Carbon & Silica Technologies

Your Role at Cabot 

This role will partner with the leaders in the Carbon & Silica Technologies and Battery Materials businesses (the Performance Chemicals Segment) and HR Function (HR for HR) to diagnose, evaluate and ensure delivery of solutions required to delivery business results, build organizational effectiveness and talent capability.   

In their capacity as HR Business Partner this position will play a key role as a core member of the PC segment leadership team, providing HR leadership to the segment’s global businesses (Carbon Solutions Technologies and Battery Materials) supporting leadership and approximately 1,200 employees across the U.S., South America, Europe and Asia.  You will work closely with COE (Communities of Expertise) partners, region- and site-based field HR resources in the effective deployment of HR strategies, talent and people practices across the businesses.  These practices include talent development, performance management, succession planning, compensation, employee relations and talent acquisition. 

In their role as HR Business Partner to the HR function, this position serves as an HR partner to the functional executives and their management teams leading these organizations.  You will support these teams in their people and talent-related objectives. 

The HRBP is a member of Global HR Leadership team (HRLT) and will be accountable for creating a real and active partnership with leaders to providing support, analysis and insights, to be a trusted adviser and to add value that will assist in decision making. 

This position reports directly to the SVP & CHRO, the HR Business Partner (HRBP) is a member of Global HR Leadership (HRLT) team which is comprised of COE Leaders, HR Business Partners & Field HR team.  The HRLT drives the agenda for the function to set the people strategy to drive business objectives, provide HR oversight and ensure availability of talent to achieve the strategy. 

• Responsible for aligning human resources strategy, plans and initiatives of the organization with the business strategy; 

• Provide leadership in the development of change strategies which align resources and drive a collaborative and supportive high-performance work environment; 

• Deliver initiatives, such as Talent and Organization Review, which focus on improvements in organization effectiveness and talent; 

• Work with HR COEs (Communities of Expertise) to identify tools, methods, and initiatives to support a talent pipeline within and outside of the organizations this role supports; 

• Champion a culture of diversity and inclusion, ensuring that the organization is developing a diverse pool of talent from which to develop, promote and hire. 

• Provide leadership support, coaching and counsel to ensure that the organization’s ability to attract, develop, retain and fully leverage talent needed to achieve competitive advantage and organization effectiveness 

• Through partnership with HR Services and regional and site-HR partners, ensure the implementation of business and functional-level HR initiatives across the global organization are delivered effectively 

• This HR leadership role is responsible for helping the HR function develop and evolve  - helping shape, influence, and develop our HR strategy, practices and staff to be the impactful partners to the business we strive to be. 

• The ideal talent will possess 10+ years of senior human resources generalist experience with a minimum of 3 years at a senior level with global responsibility.   

• You must have functional depth in change management, organization development, and talent management.  

• Must possess the ability to quickly grasp business/functional objectives and strategies of the organization and how human resources can support achievement of these objectives 

• A bachelor's degree; a focus in human resources, business or a related field preferred 

• Ability to apply strong strategic, analytic, problem-solving skills to organization and talent challenges 

• Utilizes strong partnering and diagnostic skills to facilitate robust, healthy discussion and analysis and effective decision making. 

• Experience providing remote support to global teams, as several “clients” or business partners are located in Europe and Asia. 

• While this position is an individual contributor role, prior experience leading and/or influencing individuals is required. 

• Comprehensive HR experience, including hands-on exposure to the full mix of HR responsibilities globally, including employee and labor relations, compensation, organization effectiveness, and talent management. 

• Ability to take initiative and work independently 

• Experience in a variety of work settings, including manufacturing, engineering, and sales, service, marketing organizations. 

• Comfort with change and ambiguity and making timely, quality decisions even with incomplete data 

• Must have led/been directly involved in significant change management initiatives in prior roles 

• Travel, up to 30% of time, as needed 

How We’ll Support Your Success: 

• Dynamic, Flexible, Hard Working, Team Environment – We are busy, collaborative, growing, and we are doing really meaningful work. 

• Hybrid Work Environment – The autonomy to both work from home 2 days a week and develop/sustain colleague relationships in the office 3 days a week. 

• Benefits, Vacation, Etc. – We offer a competitive package of benefits.  Learn more about Cabot’s 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. You will be part of a team that cares about you personally and professionally. Our success depends on your success.