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.
How You Will Make an Impact 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. What You Will Bring to Cabot 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. Options Apply for this job onlineApplyShareRefer a friend to this jobRefer Sorry the Share function is not working properly at this moment. Please refresh the page and try again later. Share on your newsfeed Connect With Us! Not ready to apply? Connect with us for general consideration.About Cabot
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.
Cabot is committed to supporting and maintaining a safe and environmentally focused working environment. All employees are expected to uphold this commitment in every position.
Nondiscrimination Policy with Respect to Discussion of Pay
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.
Pre-Employment Drug Testing and Background Checks
Cabot is proud to operate as a drug-free workplace. All applicants conditionally offered a position must (a) complete and pass a background check and (b) complete a drug test and receive an acceptable test result. For certain manufacturing, quality and production positions, a pre-employment physical may be required.
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