Sr. Analyst, Business Operations- Carbons, Compounds & Silica Technologies

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 worldwide, serving 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 deep understanding of their applications and global trends that impact their operations.

If you do not meet every requirement, or your experience is slightly different than what we have listed, we still encourage you to apply.

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 include proposing and reviewing changes in product portfolio, inventory targets, pricing actions, and manufacturing plans. The role also involves preparing and presenting materials for 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 and for always doing the right thing?
• Are you curious, coachable, and passionate about learning? Are you interested in challenging the status quo and driving continuous improvement?

In this role your primary duty will be to help 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, strong organizational skills, and urgency to make things happen.

• 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 implementing 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 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.
• Strong business savvy. Demonstrates financial and marketing acumen (addressable markets, customer segmentation, voice of customer, value propositions, pricing strategy, margin growth).
• 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 functions to develop plans to drive growth and efficiency.
• Guide results. Acts with urgency and tenacity. Takes ownership and responsibility for finding new client avenues. Uses initiative, ingenuity, and humility to engage customers.
• Communication and presentation skills. Ability to effectively engage verbally and in written communications that are timely, concise, clear, and relevant while delivering with empathy.
• Cross‑functional team building. Utilizes indirect influence in cross‑functional teams from supply chain, manufacturing, sales, and others to develop plans for implementation and track/support…