Manager Strategic Business Projects- Battery Materials

Cabot Battery Materials – Manager Strategic Business Projects Your Role at Cabot

Cabot's Battery Materials business is at the forefront of the rapidly expanding global energy storage sector. As a trusted industry leader in conductive additives and advanced material solutions, Cabot partners with top battery manufacturers to power the next generation of electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and high-performance applications. Our innovations enable higher battery efficiency, improved performance, and more sustainable technologies, making Cabot a key contributor to the global energy transition.

In the role of Manager Strategic Business Projects, Battery Materials you will support the successful execution of multiple high-impact organic and inorganic growth projects within the dynamic and fast-evolving Battery Materials market. You will develop, assess, and recommend strategic pathways that align with business priorities and ensure timely execution. Working closely with cross-functional teams, you will coordinate project activities, track progress against key milestones, and act as a business advocate throughout the entire project lifecycle.

You will keep leadership informed through clear and consistent updates, incorporate strategic feedback, and adjust execution plans as needed in response to rapidly changing market conditions.

For this role, Cabot is seeking a professional who has broad experience managing complex projects and is interested and capable of learning the nuances of the Battery Material industry on-the-job.

This role is based at the Billerica, MA location, but is eligible to participate in the current Hybrid Working Arrangement program (Monday/Friday remote and Tuesday-Thursday in office).

• Collaborates with cross‑functional partners (e.g., commercial, manufacturing, engineering, finance, R&D, corporate strategy, environmental) to scope emerging Battery Materials projects by assessing complex trade‑offs and developing strategic options and execution paths
• Aligns with line management to recommend a preferred path forward to business unit leadership for further consideration

• Serves as the Business Project Manager for cross‑functional project teams (e.g., commercial, manufacturing, engineering, finance, R&D, corporate strategy, environmental); acts as the hub of all project activity and the single source of truth for project strategy and execution paths.
• Applies disciplined project management practices and influencing skills to enforce accountability and drive timely and high‑quality project execution.
• Adapts project strategy and plan throughout project lifecycle, in response to fast‑moving market dynamics and business needs, to ensure scope and schedule remain aligned with business objectives.
• Facilitates regular cross‑functional team meetings to assess progress and identify opportunities, challenges, and risks – solves day‑to‑day problems and elevates critical issues to line‑management for guidance.
• Organizes and leads regular steering committee reviews, with support from line‑management, to update leadership on project progress and share critical opportunities, challenges, and/or risks that require feedback and direction‑setting.
• Collaborates with line‑management and project team to prepare deliverables for major project milestone reviews (e.g., Phase‑Gate reviews)
• Designs and executes communication plans to ensure consistent stakeholder engagement, transparency, and alignment throughout the project lifecycle.

• Ensures that each project maintains an attractive and viable business case.
• Collaborates with Business Finance to define key project assumptions that enable scenario‑driven financial assessments.
• Monitors project costs, estimates, and forecasts and collaborates with cross‑functional teams to drive efficient use of resources.
• Elevates major cost and business case challenges to line‑management and Steering Committee for feedback and direction – adapts project strategy and plan as needed in response to…