Clare Vickery

Senior Account Manager for Garment Printing, looking after high accounts. Communicate with clients at a senior level to resolve issues and inquiries. Generating innovative ideas to support customers and boost brand awareness, ensureing brand consistency. Keeping clients up-to-date with product launches and providing support to clients and the sales team. Hands on experience with Salesforce CRM software and MS Office (particularly MS Excel), and Adobe.

Children’s clothing brand, launched in 2019. Designing, manufacturing and selling fashion forward children’s wear online and in independent children’s boutiques.

Operating a 6 colour automatic Screen Printing press and a 6 colour Manual Screen Printing Carousel. Responsible for machine set up and alignment ready to print, making sure the artwork is perfectly aligned and colours are printing perfectly before and during production. Setting and exposing screens, vectoring artwork, colour separation, colour mixing and matching.

Account manager for Estee Launder, Elephant Magazine, The Royal Opera House, Japan Centre, Magma, Vanish Software and Pitch International. Responsible for bespoke, screen printing and all over dye sublimation orders for the company. Helping with customers artwork, making sure it is fully vectored if needed, and print ready. Advising clients about the most suitable printing techniques for their needs and budget, and guiding them through the printing requirements in order to give the best service and end product. Conversing with factories and print houses in the UK and Far East, managing production and negotiation prices. Dealing with inbound sales requests, issuing quotes to customers and assisting them through the order process. Requiring my full knowledge of Screen printing, Screen print transfer, Direct to Garment Printing, Dye Sublimation, Vinyl, and Cad cut transfer along with the limitations involved.

Designing print and fashion collections for high street brands including House of Fraser, M&Co, Wallis, T M Lewin, Long Tall Sally, Bon Marche, C&A, and Mark & Spencers. Developing artwork and designs for customers either from their own design stories or from personal research to offer the client something new and exciting, producing a range of prints in several colorways, as well as illustrations and visualizations that demonstrate how the prints created work on different silhouettes. This position requires seeing the design process through from initial idea to finished production, leasing with factories and printing mills, ensuring quality is controlled and sampling is ordered, keeping production on track.

- Bag construction - Print Design for a/w 2012 - Assisting Designer in sourcing leather

Print design and illustration