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!
Your Role at Cabot:
Cabot has an exciting opportunity for an experienced HR professional to join our Shanghai Holding Office, the headquarters for Cabot China and Asia Pacific. In this role, you will partner with business and functional leaders across R&D, Global Business Services (GBS) and corporate functions to translate business needs into practical people and organization solutions. This is a high-impact opportunity for an HR professional who enjoys being close to the business, influencing leaders, and shaping talent, culture and employee experience in a dynamic environment.
- Are you an HR professional who wants to create business impact through people and organization solutions?
- Do you enjoy building trusted partnerships with leaders, navigating complexity, and helping teams perform at their best?
- Are you motivated by the opportunity to contribute to Cabot’s continued growth in China and Asia Pacific while broadening your HR leadership experience?
If so, this role could be a strong next step in your HR career.
How You’ll Make an Impact:
You will play a key role in implementing Cabot’s HR strategy for the Shanghai Holding Office. Working closely with business and functional leaders, you will help identify, attract, develop and retain the talent needed to deliver current priorities and future growth. The role combines strategic HR business partnering with hands-on site HR leadership, offering broad exposure across organization effectiveness, talent management, employee relations, culture, workforce analytics and HR operations.
Strategic HR Business Partnership
- Act as a trusted HR partner to leaders across GBS, ATC(R&D) and functional departments, translating business priorities into focused HR actions.
- Understand business challenges, workforce needs and organization opportunities, and provide practical HR solutions that support growth, capability building and business delivery.
- Partner with leaders on organization diagnosis, structure optimization, team effectiveness and leadership capability to strengthen overall business performance.
- Use workforce data, HR insights and employee feedback to support better talent and organization decisions.
- Coordinate with regional and global HR teams to ensure consistent implementation of HR programs, policies and standards across supported groups.
Site HR Leadership & Employee Experience
- Lead full-cycle site HR activities for the Shanghai Holding Office, including hiring support, onboarding, employee development, performance management, rewards, engagement and employee relations.
- Strengthen employee experience and engagement by promoting Cabot values, supporting manager effectiveness and enabling an inclusive, collaborative workplace culture.
- Ensure high-quality execution of HR policies, processes and compliance requirements, including SOX audit, RC audit, ISO and other internal or external control standards.
- Improve HR operational efficiency through effective use of Workday, Kayang and other HR systems, while continuously identifying opportunities to simplify and improve ways of working.
- Maintain effective communication with relevant local government authorities and support employee benefit-related matters, site HR projects and operational priorities as needed.
What Success Looks Like
- Build trusted partnerships with key business and functional leaders in the Shanghai Holding Office.
- Deliver core HR priorities with quality, consistency and strong business alignment.
- Contribute to organization and talent solutions that improve team effectiveness and support business growth.
- Strengthen employee engagement, manager capability and the overall employee experience.
- Use data and HR systems to improve decision-making, execution discipline and operational efficiency.
What You’ll Bring to Cabot:
- Bachelor’s degree or above; an advanced degree or HR-related certification is preferred.
- Minimum seven years of progressive HR experience, including HR business partnering or HR generalist experience in a multinational, matrix or complex business environment.
- Solid understanding of China HR practices, employee relations and core employment compliance requirements.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build trust, influence leaders and work effectively across different functions and leadership styles.
- Experience supporting talent management, performance management, learning and development, employee engagement, rewards processes and organization effectiveness initiatives.
- Ability to coach managers and employees, provide sound HR guidance and support constructive resolution of people and team issues.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use relevant facts, data and business context to make balanced recommendations.
- Customer-focused, responsive and committed to delivering high-quality HR service with ownership and professionalism.
- Effective communication skills in both Chinese and English, with the confidence to engage employees and leaders at different levels of the organization.
- Experience with Workday, Kayang or other HR systems is preferred.
Critical Capabilities for Success
- Business acumen and curiosity to understand how people priorities connect to business outcomes.
- Learning agility and resilience in a changing, fast-moving environment.
- Collaboration and influencing skills to work across functions, geographies and stakeholder groups.
- Coaching mindset to help leaders and employees grow capability and confidence.
- Practical execution discipline to turn HR strategy into actions that create measurable impact.
How We’ll Support Your Success:
- Meaningful Business Impact – Cabot is a leading global performance materials company with a strong presence in China and Asia Pacific. In this role, you will contribute directly to business growth by helping leaders build capable teams and effective organizations.
- Career Growth and Development – You will have opportunities to deepen your HR business partnering capability, strengthen site HR leadership experience, and grow your influence through peer learning, coaching and hands-on business exposure.
- Collaborative HR Community – You will be part of a supportive HR network that values integrity, partnership, practical problem solving and continuous improvement and open feedback.
- Hybrid Work Environment – While staying close to your business stakeholders and employees, you will have flexibility to manage your work in a balanced and effective way.
- Competitive Rewards – We offer a competitive benefits package and a work environment where strong contribution and development are valued.
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.
