Clare is the Director – HR and Employer Services at South East Employers (SEE), and joined the organisation in August 2024. She is an accomplished senior HR professional with a proven track record in leading and delivering the full spectrum of HR services and strategy.  Clare has previously headed up the divisional HR function of a large Business Process Outsourcer (BPO), where she worked across several Local Government contracts on designing and implementing HR strategy, change and transformation. 

Clare is an experienced people manager, who has a proven track record for nurturing and driving talent. She has previously headed up diversity forums and has vast experience in working with trade unions including Unison, Unite, UFS and GMB on pensions consultation, pay negotiations and dispute resolution.  

Since 2016, Clare has worked on a consultancy basis, providing both BAU HR support and leading on strategic change and transformation projects, including leading the HR and Retained Organisation workstream on the largest transformation project ever undertaken by a leading financial services organisation to define a new strategic target operating model within the asset management business. This included working collaboratively with Unite the union, C-suite leaders, external consultants and internal stakeholders.  

Clare has also led the HR workstream on a number of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) programmes, utilising her experience from working for a large BPO and has led on programmes for a Lloyd’s syndicate insurance company and a global technology organisation. 

Clare has also led on key strategic change projects for a leading magic circle law firm, which focussed the organisational planning, restricting and transition of business services functions within the UK, US and Germany to a newly created Global Shared Service centre in Manchester, and the insourcing of Legal Resources across multiple territories.  

Clare has vast experience in Employee Relations, having worked in a number of ER specialist and HR Business Partner roles and has led on high profile, complex disciplinary, grievance and whistleblowing investigations, large and small scale redundancy programmes, providing ER guidance, training and coaching to managers of all levels. 

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