Job Description

Company Goal Setting Expert

Department: Global Talent Development

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Kazakhstan

Reporting To: Vera Solomatina

The Expert for Corporate Goal Setting is responsible for building, coordinating, and continuously improving the company-wide goal-setting processes. This role ensures timely and structured planning cycles, alignment of objectives across divisions, accurate tracking of plan/fact results, and unified communication of processes and expectations.

In addition, the Expert provides methodological support and facilitation for the executive leadership team, guiding the company-level and divisional goal-setting process, ensuring strategic clarity, alignment, and high-quality decision-making.

The Expert adapts and refines goal-setting methodology (OKRs or other approaches as needed) in response to evolving business requirements and supports divisions in implementing goals effectively at all organizational levels. The role requires strong process ownership, stakeholder management, and the ability to drive clarity and discipline in planning routines.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve the company-wide goal-setting framework (OKRs or alternative methodologies), ensuring its relevance to the business strategy and organizational maturity level.
• Design, coordinate, and govern end-to-end planning cycles (annual and quarterly), including timelines, roles, decision points, and quality standards.
• Provide methodological guidance and facilitation to the executive leadership team during company-level and divisional goal-setting processes, supporting strategic focus, prioritization, and alignment.
• Facilitate cross-divisional goal-alignment sessions, ensuring clarity of strategic intent, dependencies, and trade-offs.
• Translate company-level strategic objectives into clear goal-setting principles and standards for divisions and teams.
• Support divisions and key leaders in cascading goals across organizational levels while preserving strategic coherence.
• Establish and maintain clear plan vs. actual tracking, structured progress-review routines, and outcome-based reporting.
• Ensure transparency and consistency in goal-setting communication across the organization.
• Act as a trusted partner to senior leaders, constructively challenging goals when needed to improve focus, measurability, and strategic impact.
• Build internal capability in goal-setting and execution discipline through guidelines, templates, training, and ongoing advisory support.
• Monitor the effectiveness of the goal-setting process and recommend adjustments based on business feedback and results.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as a Project Manager, Strategic Manager, Business Planning Specialist, or OKR/goal-setting process owner.
• Proven experience launching or orchestrating goal-setting or KPI/OKR processes within a company.
• Strong knowledge of corporate goal-setting.
• Demonstrated experience initiating, designing, and implementing process improvements and leading change management initiatives.
• Advanced (C1 or higher) level of English proficiency
• Experience working in a global company or within cross-cultural, geographically distributed teams.

Benefits & Conditions

• Stable salary, official employment.
• Health insurance.
• Hybrid work mode and flexile schedule.
• Relocation package offered for candidates from other regions.
• Access to professional counseling services including psychological, financial, and legal support.
• Discount club membership.
• Diverse internal training programs.
• Partially or fully payed additional training courses.
• All necessary work equipment.