Baltabayev Askar Kuatbayevich
Managing Director for Procurement and Risks of Samruk-Energy JSC, Member of the Management Board
Citizenship: Republic of Kazakhstan
Date of birth: 16 September 1979
Education:
2001 — graduated from the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan with major in Law
2014 — graduated from Kokshetau State University, bachelor’s degree in Economics
Professional experience:
08.2001–05.2012 — Held various positions in investigative and operational units of the internal affairs and financial police authorities.
12.2012–01.2018 — Senior manager, Procurement Department; Director, Procurement Department; Advisor to the Chairman of the Management Board; Managing Director for Procurement, Samruk-Energy JSC
01.2018–07.2023 — Held executive positions in private construction and manufacturing companies.
07.2023–present — Managing Director for Procurement and Risks, Samruk-Energy JSC
Responsibilities:
- Ensuring and overseeing the procurement of goods, works and services by the Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates (SAs);
- Ensuring and overseeing an increase in the share of local content in procurement;
- Ensuring and overseeing the implementation of the Company’s and SAs’ procurement plans and schedules;
- Ensuring compliance with the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the regulatory documents of Samruk-Kazyna JSC, the Company and its SAs, as well as compliance with procurement procedures for goods, works and services by the Company and its SAs;
- Coordinating and overseeing logistics for the supply of equipment for core production;
- Overseeing the development and provision of the Company and its SAs with internal regulatory documents governing the procurement of goods, works and services;
- Ensuring and overseeing inventory turnover at the Company’s SAs;
- Developing, facilitating the approval of, implementing and monitoring the implementation of procurement category strategies managed at the Samruk-Kazyna JSC and Company levels;
- Ensuring and overseeing the risk management and internal control systems of the Company and its SAs, including the development and updating of action plans, control procedures and methodological frameworks relating to internal control, risk management and business continuity management;
- Preparing and submitting to the Company’s Board of Directors and its Audit Committee information on risk assessments, including descriptions of identified risks, as well as information on the implementation of risk mitigation plans and programs;
- Ensuring and overseeing the development and implementation of action plans to improve the Company’s and its SAs’ risk management system (RMS) and internal control system (ICS), assessing the effectiveness of the RMS and ICS, and providing methodological support to the Company’s SAs on matters relating to the operation of the RMS and ICS;
- Ensuring and overseeing the development and implementation of plans designed to ensure business continuity across the Company’s group of companies, as well as monitoring and analyzing the effectiveness of business continuity measures;
- Organizing the Company’s administrative and general operations;
- Ensuring and overseeing the stable operation of the Corporate Centre, effective inventory management and the provision of employees with furniture, electrical appliances and other equipment, as well as coordinating and overseeing the organization of measures aimed at optimizing accommodation costs for the Company’s employees on business trips, improving the electronic document management system, and promoting the use and development of the state language within the Company;
- Overseeing the implementation of projects during the construction and commissioning stages, including ensuring centralized management of construction processes, monitoring compliance with work plans, approved budgets, quality requirements and technical standards, ensuring effective management of the construction stage and timely commissioning of facilities, and reducing the risks of deviations from approved timelines, budgets and technical solutions.