Senior Digital Business Partner- Integrated Operations

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.

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

Your Role at Cabot

As a Digital Manufacturing Business Partner, you will play a key role in advancing Cabot's digital manufacturing strategy by partnering with Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Digital teams to identify, prioritize, and deliver high-value digital initiatives.

You will serve as a trusted advisor to manufacturing leadership, helping translate operational challenges into innovative digital solutions that improve plant performance, enhance productivity, and create measurable business value. This role combines strategic thinking, business partnership, change leadership, and digital innovation to support Cabot's transformation journey across its global manufacturing network.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Partner with Manufacturing leadership to develop and execute digital initiatives aligned with business priorities and operational goals.

• Identify opportunities to improve productivity, reliability, quality, and operational efficiency through digital technologies and data-driven solutions.

• Translate business challenges into practical digital use cases with clear value and measurable outcomes.

• Drive innovation by introducing new technologies, best practices, and emerging digital capabilities across manufacturing operations.

• Build and maintain a prioritized pipeline of digital initiatives focused on delivering business value.

• Collaborate with Digital/IT teams and solution providers to design and implement scalable solutions supporting manufacturing processes.

• Support the successful deployment of technologies such as manufacturing execution systems, automation, analytics, predictive maintenance, and Industry 4.0 solutions.

• Champion data-driven decision-making by promoting the use of analytics, performance insights, and operational KPIs.

• Lead change management and adoption efforts to ensure digital solutions are effectively embedded into daily operations.

• Foster collaboration across Manufacturing, Engineering, Supply Chain, and Digital teams to drive alignment and global standardization.

• Monitor industry trends and emerging technologies to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and innovation.

What You Will Bring to Cabot

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in engineering, Manufacturing, Digital Technologies, Information Systems, or a related field.

• Significant experience in manufacturing, operations, digital transformation, or a related business partnering role.

• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes, plant operations, and operational performance metrics.

• Experience delivering business value through digital transformation initiatives and technology-enabled improvements.

• Familiarity with digital manufacturing technologies such as MES, ERP systems (e.g., SAP), Industrial IoT, analytics, visualization platforms, and Industry 4.0 solutions.

• Proven ability to develop business cases and communicate value propositions to senior stakeholders.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills.

• Experience working within complex, global, and matrix organizations.

• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.

• Ability to lead change, drive adoption, and build engagement across diverse teams.

Additional Information:

• Working Hours: 9:00 - 17:30.

• Permanent contract.

• Salary: 5150 - 7450 EUR Gross.

• Health insurance from first day of work.

• Monthly allowance & Yearly bonus.

• Hybrid work schedule (3 days on site and 2 days’ work from home).

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.

• 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.

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.

About Us

Cabot Corporation is a leading global specialty chemicals and performance materials company with locations in over 20+ countries. We combine our global perspective with local decision-making to deliver performance that makes a difference in the markets we serve, from transportation and infrastructure to environment and consumer.

Our employees around the world are united by our shared purpose: creating materials that improve daily life and enable a more sustainable future. We empower individuals to take ownership of their careers and promote a culture where people feel encouraged to share ideas, challenge the status quo, and collaborate, creating a workplace where all employees can make an impact.