Sr. Analyst, Business Operations- Carbons, Compounds

Your Role at Cabot
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

How You Will Make An Impact
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

What You Will Bring To Cabot

• 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

• The pay range for this role is from $108,800 - $149,600. The actual compensation offered to the successful candidate will depend on the candidate's skill, qualifications, experience and location. This role is eligible for comprehensive benefits on the first day of employment and an annual discretionary bonus based on company performance. Learn more about our benefits here
• 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.