Full-Time
Healthcare Associate
Catalant
201-500 employees
Marketplace for on-demand business consulting
Compensation Overview
$90k - $120k/yr
Boston, MA, USA
Hybrid
Flexible hybrid model for positions local to the Boston headquarters.
Bachelor's
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- A Bachelor's Degree is required.
- Two to four years of experience in business development, executive recruiting, or similar roles are required.
- Ability to proactively manage and prioritize a variety of activities.
- Ability to work with clients, experts, and prospects and overcome basic objections.
- Strong communication skills, including writing, oral communication, and professional services skills.
- Ability to quickly build relationships and trust with outside consultants.
- Prior experience with business development outreach to warm and cold leads, or the interest and capacity to learn.
- Research client prospects to identify potential buyers.
- Synthesize and review healthcare market trends to guide strategy in pharmaceuticals, medical devices, payors, and providers.
- Monitor target customers for buying signals.
- Conduct outreach to prospective clients via email, LinkedIn, and phone to generate interest and introductory calls.
- Lead assessment and qualification.
- Drive discovery and uncover opportunities where the Catalant expert network can address client needs.
- Author and post project descriptions that enable consultants to accurately self-select where they are a strong fit to support client needs.
- Review and vet expert profiles to create a shortlist of high-potential profiles for client review.
- Search for niche expertise via LinkedIn and other professional networking platforms.
- Prepare and coach experts on client interviews and proposal development.
- Provide post-interview feedback to consulting experts.
- Drive the expert review and interview process, including scheduling, tracking progress, and escalating delays.
- Advise and coach clients and experts on how to best utilize the Catalant platform.
- Review expert submissions, including pitches, full proposals, and pricing, to ensure high quality and identify risks.
- Monitor active consulting engagements and identify opportunities for extensions in partnership with expert consultants.
- Experience with LinkedIn Sales Navigator or Recruiter is a plus.
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
6 month growth
↓ -1%1 year growth
↓ -1%2 year growth
↓ -3%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.
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.
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 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.
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.