North America Logistics Operations Lead - Alpharetta, GA Hybrid

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 Corporation is seeking a North America Logistics Operations Lead to join the Global Logistics & Packaging team at the Alpharetta, GA location.

This role provides regional oversight of logistics operations, ensuring performance, compliance, and continuous improvement across transportation activities.

The position is not involved in day-to-day operational execution but serves as a senior escalation point, ensuring that issues are resolved effectively and that service providers and internal teams meet defined standards.

Strategic sourcing, carrier selection, and contract negotiations are managed by the separate Logistics Procurement function. Day-to-day transportation execution is managed by local/site operations teams or shared service centers.

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

How You'll Make an Impact:

• Provides oversight of regional transportation operations across all modes (sea, rail, road), ensuring alignment with business objectives, service expectations, and compliance standards.

• Acts asfirstescalation point for complex or critical logistics issues that cannot be resolved at the operational level, ensuring timely and effective resolution.

• Executes daytoday logistics activities endtoend with a handson approach, while maintaining a continuousimprovement mindset.

• Providesguidanceand resolution to service problems identified through monitoring of daily shipment execution status or escalated by Delivery Centers, Export shipping sites of the region, Sales, or Business Leaders.

• Supervises, specifically for the import/export activities, thetasks executedby the Freightforwarder, within a model where customer orders areentered intoand managed by the importingregions (customer region).

• Overseethe status of the executions anddefineprioritizations with the freight forwarder and steam ship lines. This role also includes coordinating with the exporting/importing Cabot sites within the region and ensures Cabot the proper execution of the shipments by the freight forwarders, the drayage companies and the steam ship lines

• Supports Root Cause Analysis and drives actively corrective actions with Suppliers within the Complaint Management Process

• Monitors and reviews logistics performance (KPIs, SLAs) across carriers, forwarders, and brokers, ensuring targets are met or exceeded.

• Drives continuous improvement initiatives by identifying systemic issues and recommending enhancements to processes, service models, and performance management approaches.

• Ensures effective implementation and adherence to regional logistics service plans, in collaboration with internal stakeholders (IT, SSC, Business/Sales) and external providers.

• Provides input into budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning based on performance trends and regional requirements

• Supports governance of third-party service providers, ensuring compliance with agreed contracts and service expectations (contracts and commercial terms owned by Logistics Procurement).

• Collaborates closely with the Logistics Procurement function, which is responsible for sourcing strategy, carrier selection, and contract negotiations.

• Provides guidance to regional logistics teamsand operational staff(without direct involvement in daily execution).

• Maintains effective stakeholder relationships with internal functions and external partners at a strategic and performance management level.

• Ensures compliance with policies, procedures, safety standards, and internal controls

• Coupa PO Creation, Invoice Review, cost control

What You'll Bring to Cabot:

• Bachelor's/University degree in Business, Logistics or Transportation related discipline.

• 5+ years of experience in logistics

• Direct experience in either domestic (Truck, Rail, Warehousing) or International (Ocean, Air, Customs) is a plus

• Chemical and logistic industry experience is a plus

• Prior management experience

• Strong knowledge of logisticsoperations both domestic and international; transportation, import/export,customs (duty/taxes),warehousing procedures and methods.

• Demonstrated ability to execute daily logistics operations while applying continuous improvement principles to streamline processes, reduce disruptions, and improve service and cost performance.

• Business management skills and functional knowledge.

• Strong problem-solving, analytical, organizational skills.

• Leadership and communication skills. Ability to lead and motivate team members.Strong interpersonal skillsin order tocommunicate and interact with customers and internal groups.

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.

• Growth-Training, great peer coaching and support, and the ability to personally grow your influence, your position, and your compensation.

• Meaningful Work that is Valued- Customers are demanding sustainable solutions without compromising quality or performance. The work we do is visible, and is helping to create a more abundant, affordable, and cleaner future. It is an awesome feeling to know you're making a living by making a positive impact in the world; and to be able to say, "I was a part of that."

• Benefits, Vacation, Etc. - We offer a competitive package of benefits. Benefits begin on first day of employment. Cabot 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. We have a global team of engineers that are willing to help. 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.

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.