Ron Hansen Email & Phone Number

Fort Worth, Texas, US

Lead a 28 person team of outside sales and inside operations associaties in the Northern Washington distict. This includes five branches from Kent, WA up to Bellingham, WA. Manage a $50M+ P&L and duties include sales and operations management, hiring/coaching/development and associate retention.

Lead team of six outside sales professionals and fifteen inside sellers. Focus on developing primary MRO relationships within all key industrial segments in the greater Puget Sound and Alaska markets. Key responsibilities include hiring, coaching, development, mentoring, enterprise sales as well as overseeing the Associated Distributor relationship.

Lake Forest, Illinois, US

• Focus on developing primary MRO relationships within key industrial segments including Aerospace, Healthcare, Foodservice, Contractor, Manufacturing, Maritime, Transportation, and Oil & Gas. Key responsibilities.
• Consistently delivered 14 years of unprecedented double-digit growth by following a consistent sales management process.
• Served as market lead for Grainger’s verticalization pilot in 2011 that became the growth strategy over the next 4 years.

• Led commercial sales team in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. Responsible for hiring, termination, coaching and direct supervision of thirteen Commercial Account Managers as well as two Digital Sales Engineers.
• Partnered with Operations to improve teamwork, sales and profit target achievement, enhance customer satisfaction, and move team towards digital competence.
• Targeted and closed Fortune 100 customers, selling at C-Level, business to business, and enterprise solutions.
• Achieved 111% on an $11 million goal in 2002 by creating and following a strategic plan.

Seattle, WA, US

Managed 6+ District Sales Managers with overall responsibility of 80 sales employees for both the wholesale and licensing divisions of Starbucks. P&L responsibility over $300M in sales. Key customers included Host Marriott, University of Washington, Seattle Mariners, Seattle Sonics and Seattle Seahawks.