David Eudall Email & Phone Number

Leicester, Gb

• Lead strategic initiatives for teams covering global and domestic commodity market analysis, proprietary data creation, consumer insights and government policy analysis. Mentor senior managers and guide economists in delivering thought-leading analysis that informs business decisions and government policy.• Initiated and driven farm assurance work, engaging with a nationwide strategic review of assurance. Developed extensive knowledge in food and feed safety standards and legislation. Mananged qualitative and quantitative research projects in this field and interpreted technical standards and legislation for strategic postion creation.• Serve as Chief Economist providing critical analysis on market issues such as the impact of the war in Ukraine on UK food prices and reporting to government officials to support policy reaction. Recent work includes leading analysis that influenced multi-million-pound government policy changes.• Senior leader, in implementing agile methodologies across a complex matrix environment spanning multiple commodity sectors. Role includes supporting and managing the commodity based governance councils and navigating complex industry politics with key stakeholders around R&D topics such as varietal performance and quality specifications for exports.• Lead a major industry digitisation project, transforming grain delivery documentation from paper to digital format. Engaging with multiple stakeholders, managing relationships and working in agile project management environment.• Designed and implemented transformation process for department to enable new ways of working and create a new open and collaborative culture between teams. Successfully restructured to create clear development pathways for staff to expand skills. Opened new promotion opportunities for team members by proactively mentoring senior managers and junior staff.

• Directed a team of 10 analysts delivering over 350 key reports and analysis pieces annually to over 13,500 subscribers whilst generating significant online engagement (1.65 million web-hits).• Led in analysis of UK potato market, delivering the only independent domestic price series and collaborating with key supply chain players such as McCains and Branston Potatoes.• Set the strategic direction for in-depth analysis of the UK and global cereals and oilseeds markets. This included both fundamental analysis of supply and demand factors and technical analysis of futures markets.• Key responsibilities included supply chain leadership by chairing industry-wide covid response group, government policy liaisons and managing industry politics to achieve collaborative outcomes. Engaged in joint projects with global bodies such as the International Grains Council and the USDA.

Creating new, and developing existing, working partnerships with both internal and external stakeholders with the aim of raising the profile of the Market Intelligence department & individual staff.Developing external working relationships to improve the output of the whole Market Intelligence department & promote the excellent work that the team provides to external stakeholders.Understanding industry requirements and bringing this knowledge in-house to develop the department’s analysis and improve Market Intelligence teams insight into key markets.Role includes involvement with key projects that are included in the core corporate priorities of AHDB. Managing relationships with internal staff & communicating effectively has been a key achievement in this role.

Senior Trader of Towns Agriculture Ltd and Cropwell Ltd. Responsible for all commercial aspects of grain trading division at Towns Agriculture and Micronutrient Sales Team at sister-company Cropwell Ltd. Managed small commercial team of Farm Traders, setting price to buy at and hedge position in market using physical and futures sales/purchases. Day to day management of position and logistics of deliveries to consumers fell under my responsibility.

During a career break in 2015/2016 I set up my own independent consultancy business focusing on the global grain markets and domestic UK arable markets. Provided weekly market reports as well as in-depth articles into specific aspects of the global oilseed market. Completed large product for UK public body analysing the effectiveness of their publications and offering updates to improve the efficiency of delivering benefit to stakeholders.

Ipswich, United Kingdom

Responsible for trading a domestic feed wheat book of circa 400,000 tonnes and a domestic barley trading book circa 150,000 tonnes for a company with an annual turnover in excess of £300 million. Day-to-day experience in trading both physical commodities as well as futures, financial derivatives and currency markets and vastly improved my knowledge of domestic & international commodity markets.Managed the logistics of delivering 400,000 tonnes of wheat to consumer and ports on an annual basis.Adhering to credit limits and position limits to ensure risk management best practice. Meeting budgets and financial targets for both individual and team trading positions.Working in a pressured environment within a large team created the need to successfully develop core relationships with internal staff in order to meet monthly targets & budgets. Managing relationships with a team of 30+ farm traders was integral to achieving success.

Analysis of global and domestic agricultural commodity markets (as well as complex data packages) and subsequent communication of this analysis to relevant stakeholders via a variety of different mediums. Safely handling large amounts of confidential & commercial through anonymising and amalgamating price and industry statistics.Experience of analysing fundamental supply and demand information, weather patterns in specific countries, technical trading aspects of futures markets, as well as global macro-economic trends.Role required excellent communication skills in oral, written and digital forms to provide written outputs and presentations given to audiences of up to 250 people. Responsible for multiple presentations which also included input from external contributors.