Cabot has an exciting opportunity for a Sr. Analyst, Product Management to help develop and implement business opportunities that will optimize growth and profitability across the Carbons, Compounds and Silica Technologies (CST) business in the Americas. Responsibilities would include assisting in proposing and reviewing changes in product portfolio, inventory targets, pricing actions, and manufacturing plans. The role would also be responsible for assisting in the preparation and presentation of materials for various business meetings such as monthly operating reviews and S&OP meetings. The Sr. Analyst, Product Management will work out of Billerica or another North American Cabot location.
• Are you a positive, hard-working, energetic, and motivated professional with a passion for building relationships with customers, prospects, and colleagues?
• Are you inspired to win? Are you known for your integrity… for always doing the right thing?
• Are you curious, coachable, and passionate about learning? Are you interested in challenging the status quo and driving for continuous improvement?
If so, please consider the opportunity we have for you to join our team!
In this role your primary duty will be to help the product managers identify and drive projects to improve overall operating efficiency, grow the portfolio, and improve operating margins in the Americas region. Using your knowledge, interpersonal skills, energy, and great personality you will build relationships across functions within Cabot both regionally and globally. This role requires a highly intelligent self-motivated person with a positive attitude, a ton of good energy, strong organizational skills, and urgency to make things happen. A successful candidate will be someone who can:
• Evaluate and monitor all aspects of the product portfolio, identify areas of opportunity and work with the appropriate team to drive improvements
• Track market trends, make recommendations and support commercial teams in their implementation of pricing actions, including outlier reviews
• Collaborate with marketing and commercial teams on new product offerings, positioning in our portfolio and target customer plans
• Work with regional planning and manufacturing teams to continuously optimize production and inventory plans to maximize margins
• Prepare and present operations information in various monthly meetings to a broad range of teams and functions in CST
• Bachelor’s degree in Business/Marketing/Finance or Science.
• 5+ years of related marketing or financial/supply chain analysis experience; product management experience preferred
• Business Savvy. Demonstrates financial and marketing acumen (addressable markets, customer segmentation, voice of customer, value propositions, pricing strategy, margin growth, etc.)
• Strong analytical and data analysis skills. Whether it’s reviewing product portfolios or sales trends across markets, a key activity will be finding areas of opportunity and working across functionals to develop plans to drive growth and efficiency.
• Guide Results. Acts with urgency and tenacity. Takes ownership and responsibility for finding avenues into new clients. Uses initiative, ingenuity, and humility to get customers to respond.
• Communication & Presentation Skills. Ability to effectively engage in verbal and written communications that are timely, concise, clear, and relevant while delivering with empathy.
• Cross functional team building. Utilizing indirect influence in cross-functional teams from supply chain, manufacturing, sales, and others to develop plans for implementation and track/support projects to achieve desired outcomes.
How We’ll Support Your Success:
• Dynamic, Flexible, Hard Working, Team Environment – We are busy, collaborative, growing, and we are doing really meaningful work.
• Growth – One of our goals is to build the best product management operation in the chemical. Great training, great peer coaching and support, and the ability to personally grow your influence, your position, and your compensation.
• Meaningful Work that is Valued – Product Management is an important, expanding area of our company, with key interfaces across both operations and commercial elements of the company. This is an opportunity to join a talented group of individuals across the Cabot portfolio and grow as we help drive for continued optimization in the specialty chemical industry
• Benefits, Vacation, Etc. – We offer a competitive package of 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. Our product manager function is a foundational part of the business at Cabot You will be part of a team that cares about you personally and professionally. Our success depends on your success.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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