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The Role
Support growth of Catalant's Financial Services practice by generating leads, sourcing and vetting consultants, managing projects and client relationships, and building practice capabilities and content.
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About Catalant:
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. Together, we deliver strategic solutions that solve our clients’ most important challenges through flexible and fit-to-purpose consulting engagements. Growing rapidly over the last 10 years, our client base now includes more than 30% of the Fortune 500, top private equity firms, and a range of other organizations seeking independent, external perspectives and professional expertise to help their businesses grow and succeed.
We’ve reimagined consulting for today’s world: it’s digitally enabled and powered by the insights and capabilities of over 100,000 seasoned professionals drawn from leading consultancies and global businesses Our consultants offer clients a competitive edge: actionable insights and hands-on support from leaders who have successfully solved similar problems before. Our business is lean, agile, and optimized to deliver best-in-class value in a way that disrupts how executives think about consulting.
Backed by world-class venture investors, we’re building the team that will take Catalant and the future of consulting to the next level.
Role Overview
The Financial Services practice is a new, dedicated industry vertical team focused on helping clients in the banking, insurance, asset management, and related segments address their most important strategic priorities. The practice is charged with growing this high value segment, competing as a strategic alternative to traditional consulting firms (Top Tier Strategy, Big 4, Larger Advisory Firms). As an early member of the Financial Services team, you’ll play an entrepreneurial role building up an all-new business while engaging with senior professionals on strategic topics at some of the world’s leading financial organizations.
As a Principal Associate within our Financial Services practice, you will play a pivotal role in supporting clients, experts, and the broader Catalant team throughout the entire go-to-market lifecycle. Our industry practice teams are made up of driven business development professionals dedicated to sparking business growth, nurturing strategic partnerships, and unlocking value for our clients.
Your core responsibilities will include strategic client planning, identification and matching of consulting solutions to client needs, vetting, coaching, and engaging with consultants, and managing key projects and processes to ensure successful service fulfillment. You will also play an important role building out the Financial Services practice, from establishing an engaged community of Financial Services-focused consultants to bringing innovative industry solutions to market. This position is tailored for individuals eager to develop a diverse skill set while working with leading industry professionals to solve complex problems. It offers the opportunity to work in a fast-paced, cutting-edge environment, make a tangible impact with leading institutions, and play a pivotal role transforming the consulting industry.
What you'll do
- Business Development / Lead Generation
- Support development and ongoing management of strategic client plans, including current and prospective client research to identify opportunities
- Conduct disciplined outreach to current and prospective clients via email, LinkedIn, and phone to generate interest, introductions, and content meetings
- Assess, qualify, and dimension new business opportunities and support the construction of winning consulting proposals
- Consultant/Project Team Sourcing
- Leverage proprietary tools to identify, connect with, and vet appropriate consultants that match project requirements
- Build relationships with network consultants; conduct pre-engagement interviews and help prepare them for successful client engagements
- Facilitate pre- and post-project activities, including consultant in-briefs, team preparation, project check-ins, and post-project feedback and lessons learned
- General Project Support
- Facilitate all aspects of client onboarding and support, including internal coordination to ensure exceptional experience and high-quality outcomes
- Monitor active consulting engagements, identify new opportunities/address issues, and facilitate post-engagement knowledge retention
- Assist in planning and improvement of key internal processes and resources that will support the growth of management consulting engagements
- Practice Building
- Collaborate with Managing Director, Marketing, and practice consultants to produce/distribute content and coordinate events to build market awareness
- Facilitate ongoing development and enhancement of catalog of consulting capabilities across industry sub-segments, functional disciplines, and use cases
- Support efforts to build a thriving, collaborative community of independent consultants on par with leading traditional consulting firms
What you'll bring
- Bachelor’s Degree (MBA or Advanced Degree a plus)
- 4-6 years of business experience, prior financial services and/or consulting background strongly preferred
- Strong communication skills (written/verbal) and comfort interacting and building relationships with senior executives and industry professionals
- Excellent problem-solving ability, using a thoughtful approach and financial/analytical acumen to conduct research and identify new opportunities
- Project/deal management discipline, with prior experience managing complex projects and/or high value deals from inception to successful completion
- Entrepreneurial mind-set and the initiative, drive, and flexibility needed to operate in a dynamic environment, work through ambiguity, and deliver results
- Commitment to teamwork, collaboration, and community building
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.
Our Flexible Work Model
We align our work environment with both the requirements of the role and the needs of our people. For positions local to our Boston headquarters, we utilize a flexible hybrid model to support team collaboration. Other roles are designed for full remote work.
The Interview & Onboarding Experience
We aim for a hiring process that is both rigorous and respectful of your time. Interviews and onboarding are conducted either virtually or in person, determined by the nature of the role and the individual circumstances of the candidate. Our People Team is here to coordinate the best path forward for you.
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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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Hybrid Workspace
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:
Flexible
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.
