After completing a degree in Veterinary Medicine at Cambridge University in 2002, her first professional experience was working in clinical veterinary practice before joining Boehringer Ingelheim in 2005. She subsequently completed an MBA at London Business School.

In Boehringer Ingelheim she has held positions at a local, regional and global level across business management, marketing and technical functions, mainly in Animal Health. This includes senior leadership roles such as the responsibility for the Boehringer Ingelheim Italian animal health subsidiary, and most recently for the overall commercial performance of the region encompassing Europe and Canada.  She also spent some time in Consumer Health Care as Category lead in global marketing.

Claire was appointed Head of Global Strategic Marketing in January 2025 and became a member of the Executive Committee of the Animal Health Business Unit at Boehringer.