Junior Analyst, Benchmarking and Insights

4 weeks ago

Toronto, Canada MaRS Discovery District Full time

**About MaRS**:
MaRS supports promising high-growth companies to scale their businesses globally, while tackling key societal challenges in areas such as Health, Cleantech, Finance, Transportation, AI, and others. In addition to helping start-ups launch, grow and scale, the MaRS community is dedicated to cross-disciplinary collaboration, commercialization of discoveries, and driving ideas to impact.

MaRS is the place where you can play a meaningful role in our innovation economy.

We understand qualifications on a job posting can be daunting. If you're passionate about the role and believe you can make a meaningful impact, we want to hear from you, even if you don't meet every listed qualification. We're always looking for great talent to join our team on planet MaRS.

**About **Ventures & Ecosystems Group (V&E)**:
This role resides within the V&E group at MaRS. V&E works with over 1400 innovation-driven science and technology startups. V&E helps entrepreneurs commercialize innovations with high business growth potential in Canada and globally by facilitating access to the customer, talent, funding, marketing and stakeholder connections required to successfully scale their business.

**About the role**:
The Junior Analyst, Benchmarking and Insights, is responsible for collecting, maintaining, and analyzing both venture and market data to support the B&I team in providing accurate reporting to stakeholders in government and across the organization. The Junior Analyst will also play a key role in administering the Benchmarking Service, involving data collection from ventures, administering database access, and addressing venture questions.

**Key **Responsibilities**:
**DATA COLLECTION & MAINTENANCE**
- Responsible for collecting, organizing, and maintaining venture data from various internal and external sources, including manual data entry and cleaning as required.
- Flag data challenges, e.g. areas where we lack data, collect duplicate data, or where data is unreliable, out-of-date, etc.
- Correspond within the Benchmarking & Insights team and with other relevant stakeholders (e.g. Program teams, vendors) to relay pertinent data

**BENCHMARKING SERVICE SUPPORT**
- Assists with implementation of new tools, including tasks such as account creation, scheduling, data deadline reminders, data entry, creation of quarterly checklists, etc.
- Collaborates with teams across Ventures & Ecosystems to ensure excellent and timely venture communications and smooth delivery of the Benchmarking Service
- Participates in the improvement of the service by collecting, summarizing, and communicating program team and venture feedback, collaborating with vendors to fix

**RESEARCH REPORT ASSEMBLY AND DEVELOPMENT**
- Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to compose or assemble written reports, slides, or data visualizations to provide insights on the venture portfolio or innovation ecosystem.
- Pulls data and performs analyses to enable program reporting and insights, utilizing strong data management techniques

**Qualifications**:

- Completed undergraduate degree
- Familiarity with cleaning and working with data in Excel or Google Sheets
- High proficiency with data visualization in Excel or Google Sheets
- Excellent verbal, communication, and presentation skills
- Strong quantitative and qualitative research capabilities
- Experience with VC and startup databases such as PitchBook, CB Insights, Crunchbase, an asset
- Experience with Salesforce, Tableau, Looker, PowerBI, Adobe InDesign, and Illustrator, an asset

**Salary Range**:$49,800** - **$62,000, up to 10% discretionary incentive, benefits, and paid time-off.

Applications will close at 5pm EDT on February 26, 2024.

Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada and reside in Ontario.

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