My Dubai Salary: ‘I earn up to Dh75,000 a month in supply chain consulting’

Nissrine Elqobai, 47, is the co-founder and chief executive of ENY Consulting, a Dubai-based supply chain consulting company.

The French-Moroccan entrepreneur moved to the UAE in 2006 and currently rents a house in Nakheel’s Veneto Residence in Jebel Ali, Dubai. She lives with her husband and five-year-old son.

Originally from a French village called Fumay near the Belgian border, Ms Elqobai lived in Al Nahda, Sharjah, for 15 years before moving to Jebel Ali in January 2021.

She has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s in international trade and supply chain, as well as a doctorate in supply chain and information systems.

Ms Elqobai says she comes from a “humble and modest family”, with her father working at a manufacturing plant and her mother a home maker.

I started working in December 1999 as a supply chain consultant for a company in Paris for three years. My first salary was €1,800 (Dh7,252) a month.

I then worked for another consulting company in the automotive industry supply chain in Paris for four and a half years.

I love what I do and from day one, I studied supply chain and today, I work like it is my first day at work.

There are eight of us in my family who work in the supply chain industry.

However, I am grateful to the positions I had in corporate because I learnt so much.

I never sent my resume to any company in the UAE. I was headhunted by a recruitment company for a role as a supply chain consultant for a Dubai Airport Free Zone-based US company. I worked with them for two years.

I was later recruited by a French company as a logistics manager for the GCC and then recruited by another US company to be their supply chain director for the Middle East and North Africa.