She brings extensive expertise in Transformation strategy, Operating Model Design, finance and back office transformation, and GBS/Shared Services. Claire also boasts experience across industries such as Consumer Goods, pharmaceuticals, technology/digital, Hospitality, retail, oil and gas, support services and postal.
Claire previously worked at Accenture for 15 years, spending the last five years of her tenure as Managing Director first leading the UK Shared Services team and latterly the Products Industry Group’s Finance Transformation team.
Following her time at Accenture, Claire moved in-house, first at AstraZeneca where she initially led a Finance Operating Model change programme and then took on a Chief of Staff role for a newly created Global Business Services (GBS) team; focusing on developing the overall operating model, governance structures and performance reporting.
Most recently, Claire was at Unilever, as Global Head of Strategy and Transformation for their GBS organisation, where they were embarking on a major transformation of their back office. She later became the Strategy and Systems Director in the Global Transformation Office where she was the strategy lead for Unilever’s global operating model change moving the organisation from a country to product line P&L.
She has a passion for cooking, studying at Leiths School of Food and Wine, completing a diploma. She even set up her own cookery school called The Green Apron, providing cooking lessons using fresh and seasonal food.
