NAME: Nada Anhoury
AGE: 48
INSTAGRAM HANDLE: @nadaanhoury
JOB TITLE: UAE & Lower Gulf Commercial General Manager of Fine Hygienic Holding.
MOVED TO THE UAE IN: 2014
Nada Anhoury is the UAE & Lower Gulf Commercial General Manager of Fine Hygienic FZE, the leading Paper Tissues company in the Middle-East, a corporation dedicated to enriching people’s well-being. She has a team of 96 across 5 markets and is very passionate about building a string independent team through coaching, empowerment and taking risks.
With almost 25 years of experience, Nada started as a fresh graduate sales person pitching flavors and fragrances to top industrial R&D managers back in Damascus, then she moved to Nestle as a sales analyst using her practical sales knowledge to read numbers in a different way. Later she followed her sales and marketing passion, building and growing brands over a period of 15 years.
Embarking on new challenges has never been a limitation to her ambition and leadership capabilities that she has instilled and development over the year, owing it to earlier life responsibilities being involved in her community whether throughout scout days managing summer camps of 150 kids for over 7 year to being a maestro of a choir and finally getting her MBA abroad before diving into the business world. All of these experiences helped shape her personality and led her to be where she is today.
Let's learn about a day in her life:
6.30AM:
I wake up, do my 15 minutes breather getting prepared for what the day ahead has to put on my plate, get dressed, prepare my meals for the day and I head off the office, fresh and mind fully awake (fun fact: although I’m a morning person, I have always failed to exercise early in the day, my body just doesn’t respond!)
8.30AM: I’m at my desk, going through my calendar to organize my day, setting mine and the teams’ priorities and ensuring that we’re all on the page, working together towards achieving our company’s goals.
9:30AM: meetings and phone calls start, to-do list getting shorter or longer depending on the day, 5-minute walk done every hour to maintain a very bad and injured back and maybe organize a nice get together, lunch or celebration for the team to strengthen the bond and create a welcoming and home-like environment everyone would be exited to be in every day (we even once had a gender reveal party in the office, that was just EPIC!)
2:00PM: time for a quick lunch, a short break to rearrange my thoughts, catch up with some colleagues in the office, steal some laughs here and there before going back to the serios stuff.
7:00PM: I’m either at the gym working on strengthening that bad back, burning those extra calories I nibbled on in the afternoon, or even releasing the stress of the day in a healthy outlet or through doing some therapy shopping (not so healthy!)
Then family time comes when I go back home, chill and video call my family and friends who are either back home or spread across the globe as nothing beats the security, safety and familiarity these conversations bring, no matter how short and trivial they are, they are just comforting.
10.30PM: I am in bed, thanking God for surviving another day and updating my to do list for tomorrow. I tend to do some reading or watch a lite series that doesn’t require me to think or focus just, easing down toward a switched off mind, ready to sleep and recharge.
Comments