[5] Kadri started her career as a Development and Technical Service Manager at Royal Dutch Shell in Belgium, where she was part of a team that invented a synthetic bottle stopper made from a foamed thermoplastic elastomer to prevent the spread of fungi and bacteria from cork stoppers to stored liquids.

[7] In 2002, Kadri took on a Product Management and Marketing role at UCB-Cytec in Belgium, until UCB sold its chemicals business.

[8] In 2005, she moved to the Huntsman Corporation in Switzerland to become marketing director of the global epoxy business divested to private equity.

[9] While at Dow, Kadri built water purification plants in the United Arab Emirates,[10] oversaw expansions in Kenya, Ghana and Nigeria,[11] and developed water projects in Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Israel, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan.

She also launched the construction of Saudi Arabia's first reverse osmosis (RO) membrane manufacturing plant.

On arriving at Diversey Care, Kadri was tasked with the turnaround of falling sales and profits, which saw her lead reforms of the service division.

Originally based in the Netherlands, Kadri relocated to Sealed Air's new corporate headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina, when it opened in 2015.