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The Role
The Practice Manager coordinates daily operations, engages with independent consultants, supports recruitment, and enhances community initiatives within Catalant's consulting framework.
Summary Generated by Built In
As the pioneer of Consulting 2.0, Catalant gives the world’s leading companies on-demand access to a community of highly vetted independent consultants and former operators. From individual consultants to full project teams, we deliver the right expertise to solve our clients’ most important challenges. Our clients include more than 30% of the Fortune 500, top private equity firms, and global consultancies, all seeking a more flexible, cost-effective way to get high-impact work done.
We’ve reimagined consulting for today’s world: it’s digitally enabled, fit-for-purpose, and designed to deliver outcomes, not just hours. Our proprietary platform powers our ability to connect companies with Catalant Experts and Teams who’ve solved similar problems before. Backed by world-class venture investors, we’re building the team that will take Catalant and the future of consulting to the next level.
The Catalant Practice Community team supports independent consultants in building and growing their practices, both within and beyond the Catalant platform. It offers resources, networking opportunities, and events to help members connect, share best practices, and collaborate on client work.
As a Practice Manager at Catalant Technologies, you will play a vital role in the day-to-day execution, coordination, and growth of our industry and functional practices within the Independent consultant Community. Reporting to the Director of the Practice Community, this role is instrumental in enabling practice operations, supporting practice community member onboarding and engagement, and ensuring alignment with client demand and Catalant’s broader business objectives.
This is an ideal role for a resourceful operator, strong communicator, and community builder who is excited to help shape the future of consulting. You’ll work closely with senior independent consultants, internal stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to drive outcomes across recruiting, engagement, offering development, and community activation.
Location: Hybrid (Boston Office)
What you'll do
- Practice Operations & Community Engagement
- Support the development, organization, and execution of activities within Catalant’s practice community, including Independent consultant onboarding, capability mapping, and engagement initiatives.
- Coordinate the planning and implementation of practice-level priorities in collaboration with the Practice Director and other stakeholders.
- Help identify and nurture high-potential Independent consultants for practice leadership roles and client-facing opportunities within the community.
- Respond to practice-related Independent consultant inquiries and ensure a seamless experience across touch-points.
- Independent Consultant Activation & Demand Alignment
- Partner with the Proposal Office, Sales, and Customer Success teams to align Independent consultants to client opportunities, including team builds and custom solutions.
- Monitor Independent consultant engagement metrics, gather feedback, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Support ongoing Independent consultant recruitment campaigns to ensure adequate supply and capability depth within each practice.
- Offering Support & Enablement
- Help codify reusable offerings, tools, and templates in partnership with Independent Consultants and internal stakeholders.
- Work with Proposal Office and marketing team to maintain libraries of case studies, diagnostics, and proposal-ready materials to accelerate client delivery and scale knowledge transfer.
- Collaborate with the Expert Products and Services team to identify relevant learning and development (L&D) content for Independent Consultants, design the appropriate courses, and oversee their implementation where applicable.
- Events & Thought Leadership Coordination
- Coordinate logistics, communications, and content for practice-level events including roundtables, practice events, webinars, and community calls.
- Support the Practice Director and Marketing in the production and promotion of thought leadership content featuring Catalant Independent consultants.
- Collaborate on Independent consultant spotlight campaigns and storytelling that highlight the value of Catalant’s community.
What you'll bring
- Experience
- 5+ years professional experience with ~3 years in consulting practice management, community operations, professional services, or a similar environment.
- Prior experience managing programs, communities, or high-value stakeholders in a fast-paced setting.
- Exposure to or understanding of the management consulting ecosystem is preferred.
- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree a plus.
- Skills & Competencies
- Project Management: Ability to juggle multiple priorities and deadlines with precision and responsiveness.
- Relationship Management: Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to build trust with senior professionals.
- Operational Mindset: Organized, systems-oriented, and able to create scalable processes and tools.
- Communication: Clear, concise, and effective across written and verbal formats.
- Team Player: Collaborative, low-ego, and eager to support others in a dynamic, evolving team environment.
- Tech-Savvy: Comfort with digital platforms, CRM tools, and knowledge systems.
Benefits
At Catalant, we strive to offer a work environment where employees can bring however much of their full, authentic self as they desire. With this in mind, we are happy to offer our employees:
- Flexible paid time off
- 13 company holidays + a week off from Christmas through New Years
- Twelve weeks of paid parental leave regardless of how you choose to grow your family
- 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
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
Catalant is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Catalant makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business objectives and does not discriminate against applicants or employees on the basis of age, race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender individual), sexual orientation, pregnancy, marital status, military or veteran status, qualified physical or mental disability, genetic condition or predisposition, or any other status protected by law. All Catalant employees are prohibited from engaging in any form of discrimination.
We have a flexible hybrid work model, where employees local to our Boston headquarters come into our office on a flexible basis, and other employees are fully remote. We are hiring and conducting interviews and onboarding either virtually or in person if local to Boston, depending on what makes most sense based on the specific candidate and new hire. Talk to our People Team to learn more!
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The Company
What We Do
Catalant, the pioneer of Consulting 2.0, has helped the biggest and best companies use independent consultants for their most important work for over 10 years. More than 30% of the Fortune 500, top PE firms, and leading consultancies partner with Catalant to gain access to highly skilled, experienced business professionals who’ve solved their exact problems before. Over 100k talented independent consultants count themselves as Catalant Experts.
We reinvented the traditional consulting model with our modern, digitally-enabled approach to solving complex business problems, giving leaders (even those outside of the C-suite) direct access through a technology platform to the expertise of senior operators, SMEs, and former consultants. With backing from some of the world's top venture capital firms, we continue to bolster our industry-leading platform by growing the team that will take Catalant to the next level.
Why Work With Us
With more companies shifting to having a flexible and agile workforce, the freelance economy is taking off, making Catalant more relevant than ever. As companies are leveraging our marketplace more, the work our employees do is incredibly impactful. We take our work seriously but have a lot of fun and laughter along the way.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
We have a flexible hybrid work model, where employees local to our Boston HQ come into our office on a flexible basis (typically once a week), and other employees are fully remote. Talk to our People team to learn more!
Typical time on-site:
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Boston, MA
Our Boston HQ is in the Seaport neighborhood — an area with a dynamic food scene and many of Boston's emerging tech companies.
