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 that what we have listed, we still encourage you to apply!
The Director Digital Applications is responsible for leading the strategy, delivery, and operational excellence of application platforms supporting Global business operations, with a core emphasis on integrated application centric environments. The role is in charge of defining, delivering, and continuously improving the organization’s core digital application landscape. This role ensures that core platforms are robust, scalable, secure, and aligned with business strategy, enabling operational excellence and digital transformation.
The role reports to the CDIO and is part of Digital leadership team.
How You Will Make an Impact:
Strategy & Leadership
- Define and drive the digital core application strategy and roadmap aligned with business priorities.
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on technology capabilities and transformation opportunities.
- Lead the transition from legacy systems to modern, integrated, cloud-based platforms.
Application Portfolio Management
- Own and manage the end-to-end lifecycle of core applications (e.g., ERP, CRM, SCM, HRM…).
- Rationalize and optimize application landscape to reduce complexity and total cost of ownership.
- Ensure systems are fit-for-purpose, standardized, and scalable across regions and business units.
Delivery & Transformation
- Lead major digital transformation programs as required.
- Ensure delivery excellence through strong program governance, risk management, and change management.
- Drive agile and product-based operating models for continuous improvement.
Operations & Service Excellence
- Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of all core applications.
- Oversee application support model (internal teams and external partners).
- Define and monitor KPIs/SLAs for service delivery and user satisfaction.
Data, Integration & Architecture
- Ensure seamless integration across systems and end-to-end process consistency.
- Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to maintain a clean, scalable, and secure architecture.
- Support data integrity and enable data-driven decision making.
Stakeholder Management
- Manage strategic relationships with key customers (internal and external) and system integrators.
- Ensure continuous value realization from the applications
- Engage with senior stakeholders globally to drive adoption and alignment.
Team Leadership
- Build and lead a high-performing global team of application experts, product owners, and delivery leads.
- Develop talent, capabilities, and succession pipelines.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and collaboration.
- Enable effective cross-functional ways of working across the Digital workforce to drive integrated planning, prioritization, and delivery
What You Will Bring To Cabot:
Leadership & Strategic Thinking
- Visionary mindset with the ability to translate strategy into execution
- Strong decision-making and prioritization skills
Business Acumen
- Deep understanding of end-to-end business processes
- Ability to link technology investments to business outcomes
Execution Excellence
- Strong program and project management capabilities
- Results-driven with a focus on delivery and impact
Stakeholder Influence
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to navigate complex, matrixed organizations
Innovation & Continuous Improvement
- Drives adoption of new technologies and best practices
- Promotes automation, standardization, and simplification
- Demonstrated knowledge in magic quadrants (SAP, ORACLE, JDE, WD, Sales force…).
Education/Experience
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in information technology, Engineering, Business, or related field.
- 10–15+ years of experience in applications and digital transformation.
- Proven leadership in managing large-scale ERP/HRIS transformations.
- Strong understanding of business processes across Finance, HR, Supply Chain, Manufacturing.
- Experience leading global, cross-functional teams.
- Strong expertise in cloud technologies, integrations, and modern application architectures.
- Demonstrated ability to operate at executive level and influence senior stakeholders.
- Experience with outsourcing and vendor management models.
How We Will Support Your Success
- The pay range for this role is $192,150 - $278,700. The actual compensation offered to the successful candidate will depend on the candidate's skill, qualifications, experience and location. In addition, this position is eligible for an annual bonus based on your performance and company performance.
- In addition to base salary, all positions are eligible for health benefits on the first day of employment, annual bonus based on company performance, local benefits, and opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Dynamic, Flexible, Hard Working, Team Environment – We are busy, collaborative, growing, and we are doing really meaningful work.
- 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.
EEO/AA Employer/Vet/Disabled/RC14001 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.
