Vice President, Global Marketing and Strategy, Battery Materials (Boston)

Your Role at Cabot

The Vice President, Global Marketing and Strategy, Battery Materials leads the global marketing, M&A, strategy, and new product development activities. Working in collaboration with the segment president, business operation VP and leadership team, the position develops and defines the long-term strategy for Battery Materials to ensure profitable, sustainable development and growth.

This role evaluates, proposes, and executes organic or inorganic investment projects; leads market, customer, and product segmentation, and drives new product development pipeline activities through commercialization. The position is also accountable for competitor analysis, marketing communications, overall market intelligence and market trends globally. This position will lead a global team and is a key member of the segment leadership team.

The preferred location for this role is Boston or Billerica.

How You Will Make an Impact

• Leads strategic planning process including developing and executing long range strategy/plan, conducting competitor analysis, and identifying opportunities in areas such as, greenfield, brownfield investments and/or partnership/acquisition.
• Develop and execute marketing plan by leading global and regional marketing teams.
• Manage marketing communications activities by leveraging Corporate Marketing and Communications resources as well as Regional Marketing Managers
• Ownership of market intelligence, mapping out & tracking competitive landscape to define our own position and that of the competition.
• Work with Application Development and R&D to drive new product development pipeline activities from ideation through commercialization.
• Identify future technology development, evaluate, propose, and decide the participation paths. Build and maintains internal and external relationships to drive outcomes.
• Leads global team. Effectively practices Performance Based Management by coaching and developing employees, direct as well as matrix reports, assuring effective alignment with the matrix functions.
• Supports efforts to implement and maintain the Responsible Care Management System in line with the requirements of the RC14001 technical specification, as applicable to the site/region.

What You Will Bring to Cabot

• Understanding of battery materials technical capabilities, the applications in which they perform, and how customers use this technology.
• Knowledge of emerging trends in the battery materials markets and applications to identify new opportunities.
• The ability to communicate a clear vision, direction, and measures of success.
• Communication of complex concepts in a relatable way to diverse stakeholders to inform decision making.
• Strategic thinking in defining value creation actions.
• Makes timely, thoughtful and high impact decisions that deliver expected results.
• Advocates the vision and influences internal and external senior level stakeholders (ExCo, customers, government officials)
• Skilled people leader; creates and maintains high performing teams.
• MBA (strongly preferred); Bachelor degree in science or engineering.
• 15+ years of strategy and/or marketing experience with a strong track record of leadership and delivering results
• Ability to travel globally, Ability to work with global teams operating in different cultures and market conditions.

How We Will Support Your Success:

• Dynamic, Flexible, Team Environment – We are working smart, collaborative, and we are doing meaningful work.
• Growth – While you will be helping to build out our strategic position in Battery Materials, you will have opportunity to gain experience and develop as well. We are passionate about personal development, peer support, and the ability to personally grow skills sets.
• Flexible Work Environment – The autonomy to manage your schedule and ensure you are delivering on meaningful work with a balanced approach!
• Benefits, Vacation, Etc. – We offer benefits packages that are highly competitive within the regions we operate.
• Feedback – We are committed to giving and receiving feedback in a direct and open fashion that supports and promotes your success.
• Support – You will be a part of a team that is impacting the direction of the company’s talent, a team that builds you up personally and professionally. Our success depends on your success.