9,820.40Canadian Dollar (CAD) Monthly The post is budgeted from 1 January 2027, and the successful candidate is expected to start employment as soon as possible thereafter. Operating from three offices in Europe and North America, the DX leverages a network of military end users, world-leading accelerator sites, test centres, professional mentors and experts, and Allied expertise to accelerate the most innovative technologies from across the NATO Alliance. DIANA is a energetic, agile workplace, which strives for innovative thinking, diversity, and performance excellence across all teams.

The Commercial Operations

Officer operates at the intersection of strategy, market intelligence, and data analytics to assess growth opportunities for DIANA innovators, emerging technology trends, and defence sector demand signals. This role requires ownership of insight generation to directly influence how DIANA supports growth and market opportunities for its innovators. *Provide forward-looking perspectives on emerging technology markets and trends. Integrate internal and external data sources to identify patterns, trends, strategic insights, and competitive opportunities for DIANA innovators.

Conduct market research and analysis to understand defence customer demand and map commercial solutions able to solve Allied defence problems. Identify opportunities to improve data quality and collection across teams to inform how DIANA delivers growth support for innovators. Prepare executive briefings, market assessments, competitive analysis, and strategic presentations for senior leadership.

A Bachelor’s degree from a nationally recognised/certified university in business, marketing, economics or a related field, together with at least two years of relevant skilled experience; A minimum of two years of relevant professional experience in market research and analysis, business intelligence, commercial insights, data analytics or a related field. Demonstrated experience using business intelligence tools, such as Power BI or Tableau,



and Python-based analytics or automation to analyse and present data. Demonstrated experience translating market research, commercial insights or technology assessments into evidence-based recommendations that support strategy development, portfolio management or growth initiatives for emerging technologies or start-ups.

Proven ability to conduct quantitative analysis, interpret complex datasets and communicate clear, actionable insights to support organisational decision-making. Possess the following minimum proficiency levels in NATO’s official languages (English and French): Level V (“Advanced”) in one language and Level I (“Beginner”) in the other.

NOTE : Most of DIANA’s internal work is conducted in the English language. A Master’s degree in business, economics, data analytics, technology management or another relevant field. Knowledge of defence, security, dual-use or emerging-technology markets and ecosystems.

Experience producing concise, evidence-based insights for senior leaders while also undertaking the underlying data collection, validation and analysis.

Organizational and Environmental Awareness: Understands the wider mission and considers the impact of their actions on others.

Customer Service Orientation: Planning & Prioritizing: Genuinely meaningful work as part of the newest unit within the most successful alliance in history. Tax-free salary. Household and children’s allowances and privileges for expatriate staff including expatriation and educational allowances (where applicable) and additional home leave.

Excellent private health insurance scheme.



Generous annual leave of 30 days plus official holidays. Flexible working conditions and a smoke-free office in Halifax. CONTRACT In accordance with the NATO Civilian Personnel Regulations, the successful candidate will receive a definite duration contract of three years, which may be followed by an extension.

Please note that we can only accept applications from nationals of NATO member countries. Applications must be submitted using the e-recruitment system, and any documents sent through other formats will not be reviewed (including email, social network, etc). Due to the broad interest in NATO DIANA and the large number of potential candidates, telephone or email enquiries cannot be dealt with.

DIANA will not accept any phase of the recruitment and selection, prepared in whole or in part, by means of generative artificial-intelligence (AI) tools, including and without limitation to chatbots, such as Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (Chat GPT, Copilot, Claude, etc.), or other language generating tools. All applications prepared, in whole or in part, by means of such generative or creative AI applications will be rejected without further consideration at DIANA’s sole discretion, and DIANA reserves the right to take further steps in such cases as appropriate. NATO is committed to diversity and inclusion, and strives to provide equal access to employment, advancement and retention, independent of gender, age, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, cultural background, sexual orientation, and disability.

NATO is committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible working environment, where all candidates living with disabilities can fully participate in the recruitment and selection process. If you require reasonable accommodation, please inform us during your selection process along with documented medical evidence to support your request. For more information on DIANA, please visit our website. #

📌 Commercial Operations Officer (Winnipeg)
🏢 Nato Diana
📍 Winnipeg