Claire Wade Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Newcastle-Under-Lyme, England, United Kingdom

• Development of brand strategy and brand guidelines• Setting design and brand standards for internal and external collateral• Corporate web-site design• Product UX design for eCommerce checkout and merchant portal • Design and delivery of corporate print and digital materials • Design and delivery of video content (explainer videos, reels, corporate videos)• Planning, design and delivery of CRM Email campaigns via MailChimp/ Force24 delivering inbound leads and eCommerce sales exceeding £1m in 2020• Management and training of junior staff

• Development of brand guidelines• Setting design and brand standards for internal and external collateral• Corporate web-site design• Product UX design for eCommerce checkout and merchant portal • Design and delivery of corporate print and digital materials • Planning, design and delivery of CRM Email campaigns via MailChimp/ Force24 delivering inbound leads and eCommerce sales exceeding £1m in 2020• Management and training of junior staff

Newcastle-Under-Lyme, Staffordshire

• Development of brand guidelines• Setting design and brand standards for internal and external collateral• Corporate web-site design• Design and delivery of corporate print and digital materials

Knutsford, United Kingdom

• Design for education, recruitment, and supply chain/logistics sectors• Pitching to new clients, collaboration with clients and translating briefs into creative designs• Photography direction• Manage proofing of all outgoing artwork of all designers to ensure high quality work before it went to print• Organising production meetings• Print design including: prospectuses, yearbooks, brochures, advertising, flyers, leaflets, exhibition banners and other marketing materials • Digital design including: email campaigns, designing and populating websites within Wordpress, website designs and mock-ups to present to clients, interactive PDFs

Knutsford, Cheshire

Staffordshire

• Collaborated with the sales team to create visually pleasing, functional and user friendly websites for UK businesses and organisations• Enhanced, edited and improved product, portrait and wedding photography• Managed clients through email, on the phone or face-to-face, translating their requirements and ideas into a successful product• Liaised with the web developers to deliver fully operational sites before they went live

Stoke On Trent

• Responsible for end to end design, management and delivery of major projects and long term contracts• Managed junior and temporary staff• Organised suppliers, obtaining competitive print quotes and ensured delivery on time• Excelled in layout for a monthly 32-page diocesan newspaper, arranging news and features from schools and parishes, regular columns, advertisements and announcements. Checking news items for grammar, often re-writing parts; editing all photos to resolve quality issues and creating a children’s page.• Highly skilled in turning around jobs very quickly• Designed various 64-page monthly magazines sourcing images from stock and high art sites, created ads for in-house products and external clients.• Created and sent marketing emailers• Designed book and gift catalogues, stationery, calendars, liturgical diaries and fliers• Designed books for the Pope and Archbishop of Westminster• Wrote brief copy for fliers and copy-edited much of what I designed• Created marketing briefs, wrote product-promotional copy, proofread and copy edited all publications

Keen to develop my portfolio and gain experience I took on extra design work in my own time, working on collectors’ magazines, in-box brochures, packaging and the company price list.

Stoke On Trent

• Digitally edited and prepared for print high quality stylised and customised portraits• Collaborated with the photographers to produce creative ideas• Exceptionally careful attention to detail was required to remove even minute imperfections as customers favoured very large images• Exceeded in reducing the turnaround time for sending portraits to the lab from four weeks to a few days within the first few months following appointment• Developed group tutorials, trained staff on Photoshop and Photodex to create promotional shows with a greater ‘wow’ factor• Completed advanced Photoshop courses

Stoke On Trent

• Designed posters, flyers, large outdoor banners, menus, leaflets, booklets and business cards for pubs, restaurants and nightclubs.• Prepared all projects for print, working closely with Print Production• Liaised directly with clients

Stoke On Trent

• Worked within a small busy design studio for a market leading collectable giftware company• Developed fresh, innovative packaging designs and POS from concept to final artwork on time and within budget whilst liaising with Far Eastern suppliers • Designed namecards, price lists, order pads, sales sheets, monthly retailer newsletters, created collectors’ club materials and aided in the design of magazines. • Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously• Worked to tight deadlines• Directed professional shoots at photography studios, buying props in advance if required, organising products for presenter shots• Merchandising at National Trade Shows at the NEC, Harrogate and Torquay. Played a major part in producing graphics, POS, door tickets and badges.