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

Join a high-impact regional commercial organization managing customer relationships in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH) as well as Central and Eastern Europe (CEE)

Cabot Corporation, a global leader in specialty chemicals and performance materials, is seeking an experienced Sales Manager for its Reinforcement Materials segment to drive commercial results and manage customer relationships in the tire and rubber goods industries.

This is a remote role which will be based either in Germany or Czech Republic.

How You Will Make an Impact

This is a pivotal, revenue-generating role for an experienced B2B sales professional who thrives on developing business, winning new opportunities, and managing strategic customer relationships. The successful candidate will take full ownership of the DACH and CEE territories and is accountable for driving sustainable, profitable growth by:

• Owning and driving sales performance with full accountability for revenue growth and margin performance. Develop volume and revenue forecasts, sales plans and strategies for achieving desired results.

• Driving both current and future value for Cabot by building a shared understanding of the individual customer and overall portfolio profitability and focus on where Cabot can differentiate itself at the interface with the customer.

• Ensuring Commercial Excellence through the consistent and disciplined use of Salesforce.com (customer account planning, maintaining accurate forecasts) and commercial strategies

• Conduct balance of power analyses, prepare accurate market maps and apply professional negotiation tools and techniques

• Leading complex commercial negotiations, including pricing and contract discussions, with customers. Confidently articulate product value, features, and benefits to secure profitable outcomes. Educates customers on new products and product enhancements; articulates and presents product features and benefits.

• Identifying, developing, and closing new business opportunities, including the introduction of new products and solutions aligned with customer needs and Cabot’s strategic priorities.

• Acting as a commercial partner and trusted advisor to customers, providing consultative support on product applications. Leverages and coordinates resources within the region in order to provide technical services support to customers as needed.

• Developing marketing and sales strategies.  Identifying opportunities for increasing sales and pursuing new business. Developing and implementing plans and programs.  Obtaining information regarding customers’ present and anticipated needs, identifying opportunities for increased sales. Providing leadership that assists management in setting strategic initiatives and programs to achieve corporate strategies

What You Will Bring to Cabot:

• Commercial Skills.  Knowledgeable of the markets and applications in which our products add value, and able to effectively capture the value

• Communications & Presentation Skills. Ability to effectively engage in verbal and written communications that are timely, direct, concise, clear and relevant and delivered with appropriate style and tone.

• Customer Relationship Management: Establishes and maintains appropriate relationships with customers to enable execution of Cabot’s strategic goals; sees the management of the overall customer relationship as a key component of the role

• Results Driven: Takes ownership and responsibility for achieving a desired result.  Planning, organizing, prioritizing and monitoring to ensure the attainment of business objectives

• Business Savvy: Knowledgeable about all functional elements that are important for business profitability.  Able to ‘talk business’ at high levels.

• New Opportunity Advancement: Ability to utilize knowledge of Cabot’s capabilities to develop, recognize and advance opportunities where Cabot can provide solutions to customer needs and obtain new business

• Creative Problem Solving: Apply analytical thinking to identify potential solutions to problems; is able to be innovative in identifying new solutions.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in business, Marketing, Engineering, or related field; MBA would be a plus.

• Minimum of 7+ years of sales experience in the chemical industry.

• Full professional proficiency in English (both written and spoken) is required, any other language from the area of responsibility is a strong plus.

How We’ll Support Your Success:

• Dynamic, Flexible, Values Driven, Team Environment – We are working smart, collaborative, and we are doing meaningful work.

• Growth – While you will be helping others grow through Talent Management and Development programs, you will have the opportunity to grow 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 meaningful work with a balanced approach!

• Feedback – We are committed to giving and receiving feedback in a direct and open fashion that supports and promotes your success.

• Team-Oriented Environment – You will be a part of a highly networked and motivated team that is central to the direction of company strategy.  The team builds you up 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.