Full-Time

Client Partner

Industrials

Catalant

Catalant

201-500 employees

Marketplace for on-demand business consulting

Compensation Overview

$200k - $300k/yr

Boston, MA, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid role; partial on-site in Boston, MA.

Bachelor's

Category
Consulting (1)
Required Skills
Sales

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Requirements
  • Bachelor’s degree required.
  • Minimum of 10-15 years of experience in sales, professional services, or consulting.
  • Proven track record in quota-carrying roles consistently achieving or exceeding sales targets.
  • Success winning engagements against large management consulting firms.
  • Knowledge of and experience in the Industrials space.
  • Expertly capable of building a successful pipeline and book of business.
  • Excellent presentation and communication skills (both written and verbal).
  • Ability to engage clients at all levels.
  • Ability to hit the ground running; having a network and deep understanding of the client community is a must.
  • Passion for helping business professionals solve their complex business problems.
  • Thrive in a highly entrepreneurial, dynamic, and results-driven environment.
Responsibilities
  • Design a comprehensive engagement plan that includes high-value stakeholders, communication strategies, and activities to deepen the relationship over time.
  • Engage with clients early in their planning phases to position Catalant as a key enabler in successfully executing their strategic initiatives.
  • Develop customized consulting solutions and expert talent that align with the client's strategic goals across diverse project types (e.g., AI, Commercial Excellence, Supply Chain, Business Transformation, Transformation Management Office, Operational Excellence, etc.). Present these solutions in a way that highlights Catalant’s unique value proposition.
  • Position yourself as a strategic advisor and problem-solving partner to senior executives at the client including the C-level executives and VPs.
  • Engage additional departments across the organization including common consulting buyers (corporate strategy, operations leadership, supply chain, procurement, CTO/CIO, and more).
  • Maintain a robust pipeline of potential projects and track them through all stages of the sales cycle.
  • Work closely and collaboratively with Associates to match expert talent to project needs.
  • For strategic projects, directly engage with Catalant experts to vet, prepare, and advise.
  • Ensure experts are well-prepared for interviews and proposal development by providing them with a clear set of client needs and preferences.
  • Manage externally and internally facing summaries of Catalant work at assigned accounts to help communicate the value we are creating as well as monitor that the work is going well.
  • Build productive partnerships with internal stakeholders across Catalant, acting as a collaborative member of the Industrials team.

Catalant operates as a marketplace that connects businesses with a large network of independent consultants and consulting firms for on-demand, project-based work. Clients post projects and consultants submit pitches; the platform handles the end-to-end workflow—from discovering experts and interviewing them to managing the project and processing payments. Revenue typically comes from taking a share of project value or via subscription access to platform features. The company differentiates itself with a substantial, diverse pool (80,000 independent consultants and 3,000 firms) and a structured platform that streamlines matching, contracting, and project execution, enabling organizations to access specialized expertise quickly. Its goal is to help business leaders obtain the right expertise for specific projects at scale and with clarity around delivery and costs.

Company Size

201-500

Company Stage

Series F

Total Funding

$167.8M

Headquarters

Boston, Massachusetts

Founded

2013

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Christina Spade joined as CFO on May 21, 2026, strengthening financial discipline.
  • Catalant expanded leadership on February 18, 2026, adding product and industry operators.
  • The June 2026 newsroom highlights AI-driven consulting disruption, giving Catalant timely category relevance.

What critics are saying

  • AI consulting platforms and legacy firms compress Catalant’s take-rate in 2026-2027.
  • Enterprise clients can shift spend back to Accenture, McKinsey, and Bain on critical transformations.
  • Marketplace liquidity risk stays existential: fewer winning projects weaken expert supply and buyer demand.

What makes Catalant unique

  • Catalant’s 100,000-plus vetted experts beat general freelancing marketplaces on seniority.
  • Its 2026 Consulting 2.0 positioning targets enterprise buyers replacing traditional consulting firms.
  • Catalant combines marketplace matching, compliance, and project management for governed external talent.

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Benefits

Flexible Paid Time Off

13 company holidays + a week off from Christmas through New Years

Twelve weeks of paid parental leave

Generous health insurance coverage as well as optional vision and dental

401k to save for retirement

Pre-tax commuter and flexible spending accounts

A lifestyle spending account to be used towards cell phone, internet, commuting, and learning & development

Wellness stipend for your mental, emotional, or physical wellbeing needs and support

Work from Home stipend

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

-1%

2 year growth

-3%
Precision Medicine Online
Nov 13th, 2024
McKesson Bets on Cell, Gene Therapy Products as it Corrals Services in New Business Unit

And Catalant, a contract development and manufacturing organization, last year launched a case management program to coordinate and provide oversight into supply chain logistics for cell and gene therapy developers.

Goldfinch Partners
Mar 1st, 2022
Gocatalant received financing of $35M in additional funding on Mar 1st 22'.

Catalant Technologies today announced the close of $35 million of additional funding from its Series E equity round and expansion of its existing debt facility to scale its product offering and expand into new global markets.

SJF Ventures
Oct 15th, 2021
SJF Ventures invests into Go Catalant

In the placement space, SJF Ventures has made investments in Jopwell and Catalant, and in up-skilling, SJF Ventures has backed Springboard and Interplay.

The Business Journals
Apr 1st, 2021
After $35M fundraise, Catalant Technologies to hit breakeven in months, says CEO

The news of the fundraise comes about two years after Catalant closed another $35 million investment led by Goldfinch Partners, which closed in June 2019 and was announced a few months later.

SJF Ventures
Mar 30th, 2021
Go Catalant received financing of $35M in investment on Mar 30th 21'.

Catalant Technologies today announced the closing of a $35 million investment, led by the Morningside Group, to meet increased demand as more companies choose high-end freelancers over traditional consulting firms.