The posting
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 than what we have listed, we still encourage you to apply!
The Digital Asset and Cost Manager is responsible for the end-to-end management, governance and optimization of the organization’s digital assets and technology spend. This includes acquiring, cataloguing, tracking, managing and protecting digital assets, ensuring that hardware, software, SaaS subscriptions, cloud resources, infrastructure and external services are appropriately recorded, utilized and managed throughout their lifecycle- from acquisition and deployment through renewal, refresh and retirement or disposal.
The role combines strategic oversight with hands-on operational and administrative responsibilities across IT procurement and inventory management. The Digital Asset and Cost Manager will own the enterprise-wide framework for asset governance and financial transparency, providing independent analysis and recommendations to improve investment decisions, lifecycle management, compliance, forecast accuracy and overall value from technology spend.
How Your Will Make an Impact:
- Own and continuously improve the end-to-end asset management framework for hardware, software, SaaS, licenses, subscriptions, cloud resources and Digital services.
- Establish authoritative asset and entitlement data, lifecycle standards, control points and management reporting across acquisition, deployment, utilization, renewal, refresh and retirement.
- Monitor utilization, license consumption, compliance exposure, support status, end-of-life and technology obsolescence; translate findings into prioritized remediation plans.
- Lead license reclamation, SaaS rationalization, asset reuse and lifecycle optimization initiatives, coordinating execution with application owners and service teams.
- Ensure controls and supporting evidence meet internal audit, financial control, cybersecurity, data governance and contractual requirements.
- Own the consolidated view of Digital actuals, budgets, forecasts, commitments and multi-year cost outlook across OpEx and CapEx.
- Partner with Finance and Digital leaders to lead annual planning, monthly forecasting, accruals, variance analysis and corrective actions for assigned cost portfolios.
- Develop cost models, allocations, unit economics and scenario analyses that explain demand, consumption, price, volume and service-level cost drivers.
- Provide clear recommendations on trade-offs, investment choices, refresh timing and cost-to-serve, including financial risks and opportunities.
- Create executive-ready dashboards and performance narratives that improve cost accountability and decision quality.
- Assess licensing models, subscription utilization, cloud consumption, contract economics, renewal exposure and total cost of ownership for strategic technology categories.
- Lead the analytical workstream for major renewals, sourcing events and vendor negotiations in partnership with Procurement, Finance, Legal, Security and technology owners.
- Build fact-based negotiation positions using demand forecasts, benchmarks, consumption patterns, alternative scenarios and commercial risk analysis.
- Identify and size cost reduction, avoidance, consolidation and demand-management opportunities; establish baselines and track benefits through realization.
- Maintain a forward-looking renewal and commitment calendar, escalating material risks early and recommending mitigation actions.
- Define policies, standards, decision rights and governance routines for asset and cost management, and drive adoption across Digital and business stakeholders.
- Act as the subject-matter expert for technology asset economics, advising senior Digital leaders and challenging assumptions when data indicates a better course of action.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives that span regions, platforms and functions, often without direct authority, and ensure clear ownership, milestones and outcomes.
- Improve data quality, processes and automation across ITAM/SAM, ERP, procurement, contract and BI platforms.
- Coach stakeholders on cost ownership, financial discipline, licensing obligations and effective use of technology assets.
What You Will Bring to Cabot:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Information Technology, Supply Chain or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Typically 5-8 years of progressive experience in IT asset management, software asset management, FinOps, IT finance, technology procurement, vendor management or financial analysis.
- Demonstrated experience managing or influencing a material, multi-category technology cost portfolio in a global or complex organization.
- Strong knowledge of IT OpEx and CapEx, budgeting, forecasting, accruals, variance analysis, total cost of ownership and benefit tracking.
- Working knowledge of software licensing, SaaS and cloud commercial models, hardware lifecycle management and technology contracts.
- Advanced analytical capability in Excel and reporting/BI tools; experience connecting and reconciling data from multiple enterprise systems.
- Experience with ServiceNow ITAM/SAM, ERP financial data, procurement/contract platforms, cloud cost-management tools or similar systems preferred.
- ITAM, SAM, FinOps, finance, procurement or project-management certification is advantageous, but not required.
Additional Information:
- Permanent contract.
- Salary: 3,350 - 4,800 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.
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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.
