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Our investments span control and minority positions in businesses with enterprise values between $10 million and $100 million.\nWhat sets us apart is the Council Model -a proven framework that surrounds founders and leadership teams with a powerful combination of support: our CEO Council of seasoned operators, our Strategic Healthcare Investors who bring real-world insight and access, and our internal Value Creation Team, focused on enabling growth through talent, systems, and strategy.\nAt Council Capital, we’re not just backing companies-we’re helping build enduring businesses that improve lives and shape the future of healthcare.\nThe Associate role is not just a support role built around modeling requests. You will find deals, underwrite them, and help support them-you will leave the firm better equipped than you found it. The work splits three ways.\nWhere your time goes & What that means\n40% Business Development\nSupport mid-level-led themes on development and outreach, and own thesis segments of your own: the memo, the target list, and the live outreach, with mid-level approval before anything goes out. Business development is a 40% minimum. When execution is light, your time shifts heavier to sourcing.\n40% Diligence and Execution\nModels, IC memos, and supporting analysis on live deals. You are responsible for analyzing new opportunities and supporting mid-levels in diligence workstreams end-to-end, including third-party providers and the timeline.\n20% Portfolio Support\nPortfolio companies as assigned, alongside mid-levels and Partners, joining boards as an observer. Waterfalls, board materials, and reporting with variances flagged before management raises them.\nWhat you will own:\nA quarterly to semi-annual deep dive on a thesis segment, from the memo through the target list through conversations with owners and intermediaries. This might be a segment of a theme a mid-level is driving, or a smaller-scale theme of your own.\n\nThe financial model on live deals: pressure-testing, scenario analysis, building where required, and defending your work when a Partner starts asking questions.\n\nOperating analysis on targets beyond financial modeling: KPI trends, HR and retention trends, sales and marketing trends, cost trends, and more.\n\nSupport mid-levels in diligence workstreams end-to-end, including third-party providers and the timeline-not just the output.\n\nIC memos, portfolio updates, and board materials that are ready to circulate after mid-level review.\n\nReporting and performance tracking for portfolio companies you support, with variances flagged before management raises them.\n\nWhat you bring\nRequired\nPre-MBA; two to five years of high-performing, early-career experience in a highly analytical field.\n\nStrong analytical and Excel skills. You should be able to pull apart a financial model, find what is wrong, and defend a view on what drives the business. We care more about how you evaluate a business than whether you follow a banker’s template.\n\nEvidence that you have owned an analytical workstream rather than executed pieces of someone else's.\n\nWillingness to pick up the phone-a meaningful share of this job is talking to owners and intermediaries who did not ask to hear from you.\n\nComfort committing to a multi-year path.\n\nBased in Nashville, with the ability to travel up to 20%.\n\nPreferred but not Required\nHealthcare exposure. Payers, reimbursement, and provider economics are learnable, and we will teach them, but a head start helps.\n\nLower middle market or middle market transaction experience, where the data is incomplete and the seller is often the founder.\n\nCouncil Capital and our portfolio companies are committed to building high-performing teams by hiring the best talent-period.\nWe believe in putting the right people in the right seats, regardless of background, and we’re always looking for individuals who bring fresh thinking, grit, and a drive to make a difference.\nThank you for considering a role with one of our companies. 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