Specialist, Research

**Description**:
About this role

Talent Neuron is the world’s leading source of global talent demand and supply data, predictive analytics and insights into real-time job market, location, and competitive intelligence to help clients make smarter talent planning and recruiting decisions. Our clients include market leaders like Microsoft and Verizon and hundreds of other large and midsized enterprise companies, and the business is growing quickly. The Talent Neuron data science team develop methods and provides solutions to a diverse range of advanced topics and supports highly strategic custom research and insight delivery.

We are seeking entry-level Geo Analytics Specialists to support the data science team discover actionable business ideas that will help Fortune 500 executives transform their organizations, people and business outcomes. This role enables you to explore your intellectual curiosity in a collaborative, team-based environment. You will be offered robust training, support, coaching, mentorship, and on-the-job development to achieve career success and advance within the Analytics Community.

What you’ll do
- Advise team on geospatial analyses and visualizations.
- Collect data from various sources to populate geographical databases. Sources include geo-mapping for diverse countries.
- Geocoding - develop and maintain geo-mapping versions into database to maintain geo-mapping roadmap
- Develop data visualization dashboards, interactive web-maps, storyboards that help to communicate complex data into high quality visual outputs
- Execute and deliver insights to the data science teams by owning all or part of an analytics module
- Conduct data exploration, quantitative research and provide customized analytical solutions and insights to meet product requirements
- Be a key member of the data science team and contribute to the entire project life cycle from conception to completion.

What you’ll need
- A Bachelor’s degree in Geography / Urban Planning / Urban Studies with 0-3 years of experience in academic or applied research utilizing qualitative and quantitative data.
- Ability to analyze spatial data using mapping software like ArcGIS/QGIS/MapInfo is a must.
- Experience in designing digital maps with geographic data and other data sources.
- Good understanding of Coordinate Systems/Projection Systems
- Strong interest in countries’ geographies, their economic situation and culture
- Familiarity with data manipulation techniques (Knowledge of R, SQL or Python will be a plus)
- Strong business acumen and intellectual curiosity in order to process and understand information quickly, as well as diagnose issues to make actionable recommendations.
- Experience converting qualitative and quantitative information into clear frameworks, narratives and visually compelling presentations for senior Gartner managers and clients.

Who you are
- Critical thinker and problem solver demonstrating the ability to assess business problems and provide actionable, outcome-based insights.
- Excellent communicator who enjoys working with cross functional and multi-cultural teams and can disseminate complex data through relevant means.
- Enjoy working independently as well as part of a team.
- Must be willing to work out of Quebec, Montreal, Toronto

**Who are we?**
Gartner delivers actionable, objective insight to executives and their teams. Our expert guidance and tools enable faster, smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization’s most critical priorities. We’ve grown exponentially since our founding in 1979 and we're proud to have nearly 16,000 associates globally that support our 14,000+ clients in more than 100 countries.

**What makes Gartner a great place to work?**
Our teams are composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations. We believe that a variety of experiences makes us stronger—as individuals, as communities and as an organization. That’s why we're recognized worldwide as a great place to work year after year. We've been recognized by Fortune as one of the World’s Most Admired Companies, named a Best Place to Work for LGBTQ Equality by the Human Rights Campaign Corporate Equality Index and a Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion by the Disability Equality Index. Looking for a place to turn your big ideas into reality? Join #LifeAtGartner

**What we offer**:
Our people are our most valuable asset, so we invest in them from Day 1. When you join our team, you’ll have access to a vast array of benefits to help you live your life well. These resources are designed to support your physical, financial and emotional well-being. We encourage continued personal and professional growth through ongoing learning and development opportunities. Our employee resource groups, charity match and volunteer programs keep you connected to your internal Gartner community and caus