Digital Project Manager

Tianjin
Permanent
Full-time

15 days ago

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!Cabot Corporation is seeking a Project Manager to join the Digital Portfolios and Project Management Office (PMO) team in China. The PMO team serves as gatekeepers of the technology portfolios, ensuring Digital alignment to the business value and compliance and ensures effectiveness and efficiency in project delivery. As a project manager, you play an important role in driving Cabot Corp’s strategic and tactical objectives through leadership and management of programs and projects. You will collaborate with sponsors and cross-functional teams to plan and develop scope, budget, schedule, deliverables, required resources, and work plan for initiatives.This position can be based in Cabot China office.How You Will Make an ImpactAs a key member of the Digital team, you will:

Collaborate with Business Relationship Managers, Architecture, Application and Platform, Service Delivery teams to initiate, plan, implement and deploy initiatives (programs, projects, pilots and POCs); including the budgetary and quality control activities associated with the initiatives.
Guide the delivery team through the cross-functional Project Delivery Life Cycle (PDLC) and leverage best practices to continuously improve and institutionalize the PDLC and best practices.
Identify and support for the development, measurement and reporting of Project Delivery Life Cycle and Demand Management processes.
Coordinate the program/project budget and general health of the Program/Project Portfolio
Understand technical capabilities of underlying back-end systems.
Keep up to date with new Software Development technologies, best practices, and trends.
Coach teams in the best practices and tools required for successful project management.
Work with business stakeholders and DLT team members to ensure successful delivery of initiatives.
Lead project execution (plan, coordinate and track all phases). Related activities include:
Support the RFP process.
Negotiate and manage project scope, time, budget, and quality per business needs.
Coordinate all necessary activities inside and outside team/department to deliver Statement of Work (SOW) involving Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and secure charter approval.
Develops WBS, manages execution, and identifies and resolves issues.
Analyze project performance by tracking specific KPIs and propose improvements.
Communicate project status and phases with all stakeholders.
Train and/or support development team on Agile processes
Support OCM as necessitated by a specific project/program.
Ensure project closure by managing transition to operations and documenting lessons learned.

What You Will Bring to Cabot

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or other with related work experience.
5+ years of related work experience in IT and business/industry.
One to three years (or more) of leadership responsibility for large, cross-functional projects, including influencing key stakeholders and senior leadership.
Proven track record of successfully leading complex change initiatives in large organizations.
Experience working in a global/multi-national organization in a shared service organization.
Experience in leading large, geographically distributed, and diverse teams.
Experience in the development and management of IT processes, specifically, project management processes and software development life cycle.
Experience in IT Budget and Cost Management.
Relevant certifications, licenses, or registrations such as: PMI (preferred, focused on PMP); Agile-related certification; ITSM (preferred, focused on ITIL or COBIT); Domain-specific technology certifications.

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.

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