Julia Redman owns and manages retail buying and sourcing consultancy Buyers Eye, empowering brands, retailers, suppliers and licensees to maximise their potential. She is a former Head of Buying, with over 30 years diverse buying experience, and also lectures in Fashion Buying and Sourcing at the University of the Arts and the Fashion Retail Academy in London.

She started her career at BHS in 1989, having completed a Degree (BSc) in Food, Textiles and Consumer Studies. She has since worked in the buying departments of Arcadia Group, Marks and Spencer, BHS, Woolworths, Debenhams and M&Co, buying private label, licensed and branded clothing. Julia’s global sourcing experience includes  men’s, ladies and children’s clothing, and home accessories, managing the process from planning to production and onto the British high street.

Julia also writes a blog “A buyers’ life” published on www.wordpress.com, and shared with the fashion, retail and licensing community through Linkedin and Facebook.