Business Assistant to the Chief Executive

Neo Group·Management·Almaty, Kazakhstan

Salary

up to 650,000 ₸ before tax

Employment

Full-time

Format

On-site, Mon–Fri

Level

Specialist

About the team

This is not a personal assistant role and not a secretarial one. We are looking for someone who will join the management of a group of companies: taking on several projects at once, understanding them down to the level of the numbers and driving them to a result, rather than carrying tasks between people.

The work is set up as follows: the chief executive does not need summaries, but prepared decisions. Modelling the economics of a business, comparing contractor proposals, identifying a niche, putting together a project roadmap and holding it to its deadlines. Some tasks arrive without a brief — you have to recognise them yourself.

Hence the requirement in terms of mindset: an entrepreneurial outlook, the ability to work with numbers and a readiness to be accountable for the result rather than for the process.

What you will be doing

• Contributing to strategy development: analysing lines of growth, assessing business models, preparing business cases and the reasoning behind the chief executive's decisions
• Running several projects at once: roadmaps, deadlines, resources, priorities and risks
• Coordinating internal and external teams and monitoring the delivery of project tasks
• Analysing markets, competitors and best practice, and looking for new niches and points of growth
• Preparing proposals for scaling up and developing partner channels
• Sourcing partners, contractors, suppliers and investors, and holding initial negotiations
• Reviewing commercial proposals, preparing comparisons with a recommendation and supporting deals through to delivery of what was agreed
• Costing alternative ways of delivering projects against price, timescales and risk, and implementing the option chosen
• Preparing management reporting for the chief executive
• Applying AI tools to analysis, information search and the automation of routine work

We will be happy to have you on our team if you:

• Three years or more as a business assistant to an owner, or as a project or operations manager
• An entrepreneurial mindset: the ability to see a business as a whole and to identify opportunities for growth
• Confidence with numbers: financial and business analysis, decisions based on data
• An understanding of how a business is built, scaled and run operationally
• Projects taken from brief through to result, with examples
• Negotiation skills: building relationships with partners and bringing them to an agreement
• Independence and a systematic approach: working across multiple tasks and under uncertainty without external supervision
• English is essential
• Hands-on experience with AI services (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity) for analysis and personal productivity

Nice to have

• Kazakh
• Chinese

What we offer

• Direct influence on the company's development: you take part in decisions rather than documenting them
• Several of the group's business lines at once — a view of the business that a linear role does not give
• A salary of up to 650,000 ₸ before tax
• An office in central Almaty: gym, lounge area, coffee and snacks