Ronald K. Suggs Mba Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

West Linn, Oregon, Us

Lead the development and execution of the company's operational excellence strategy to drive efficiency, productivity, and profitability throughout the retail organization.

As Chief Strategist and Senior Advisor, I orchestrate high-level planning, directing the development of key business strategies. My role involves analyzing market trends, identifying growth opportunities, and providing actionable insights to executive leadership. I collaborate across departments, offering guidance on decision-making and ensuring alignment with overall organizational goals. I excel in navigating complex challenges, driving innovation, and optimizing operational efficiency. With a focus on strategic foresight, I play a pivotal role in shaping the long-term success of the company.

Fort Worth, Tx, Us

Responsible for leading all brand marketing, innovation efforts and strategic direction for Farmer Brothers. Focusing on the company's core DSD, food service, c-store, regional and national accounts business to include R&D, new product development, insights, agency management, commercialization, POS, and execution of sales/marketing promotions across all channels of trade. Driving growth within current customers and new channel/segment types. *Reporting to the CSO

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Responsible for the strategic direction and oversight of all sales activities for the company. Leading the sales team and executing all key components of the company’s strategic plan across all channels of trade. Manage on a national scale, the company’s day-to-day business activities including revenue and sales growth; expense, cost, and margin control; and management of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial goals. Developed and implemented Volpi's sales strategy which produced new distribution in Food Service and C-Store customers, Costco, HEB, Albertsons, Fresh Tyme and Trader Joe's to name a few, increased revenue by 9%. Also created the trade development strategy, which was designed to streamline spending and focusing on a higher ROI resulting in cost savings of $500K, with a 16% EBITDA improvement.

Muscatine, Iowa, Us

Responsible for leading, developing and implementing sales and marketing strategies across all channels of trade (retail, convenience, food service) for a diverse group of Sales Leaders, Brand Managers, R&D, Quality Control and Commercialization. Monitoring, analyzing, and reporting activities against goals that will promote growth and customer satisfaction, reporting directly to the President of Kent Precision Foods Group.Member of the Executive Leadership Team responsible for building long term strategic plans that continue to expand business through acquisition and organic growth.Develop, manage sales and marketing budgets, goals and objectives and associated expense control.Provide leadership, coaching and mentoring to the sales and marketing organizations ensuring appropriate levels of accountability for decision making and clearly communicate cross-functionally with the organization.Create a winning culture of success and ongoing business and goal achievement.Manage key customer relationships, provide strategic leadership to ensure shared value and mutual growth.Lead and coordinate company sales functions, provide clear leadership and team approach to organization. Research, develop, and execute all sales and marketing strategies and plans which identify sales opportunities based on market research and competitor analyses.

Vevey, Ch

Led a diverse team of 11 Region Managers responsible for leadership, business development, strategic planning, sales and implementing marketing initiatives. Creating sustainable business building opportunities for Nestle at the senior levels of operations at Walmart/Sam’s across the United States. Worked closely and collaborated with internal and external customers to achieve both short and long-term performance objectives. Reports to the SVP of Sales

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Led the strategic direction for sales and merchandising programs for a multi state area in the Midwest and Southeastern regions for the Customer Retail Team. Provided leadership and direction for 11 Region Managers and 115 Retail Sales Representatives in delivering breakthrough retail execution results. Consistently exceeded areas of accountability resulting in effective management of KPI, budgets and contributing to incremental growth. Leveraged marketing and sales background to establish collaborative account planning enabling solution based partnerships with key internal stakeholders and strategic accounts.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Responsible for 10 field sales managers for a multi-state area in the Central region for the Customer Retail Team. Provided leadership and direction for Team Leaders in delivering on HPT and retail execution. Consistently exceeded areas of accountability resulting in effective management of KPI, budgets and contributing to incremental growth. Leveraged operational background to establish collaborative account planning enabling solution based partnerships with key strategic accounts. Reported to VP of Customer Retail Team

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Responsible for developing and implementing category management strategies with key retailers to leverage the pet category to drive their over all store, market and region sales. Leveraged background in Marketing, Store Planning and design to help address declining center store traffic and sales. Reported to the VP of Total Pet Solutions.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Responsible for the overall store operations, -P&L-Sales -Merchandising -Marketing-Advertising -Strategic planning -Inventory management - Personnel For store with annual revenues of over $100 million dollars. Managed a team of 10 assistant managers and 150-200 employees

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Responsible for the overall store operations, personnel, merchandising, sales and strategic planning for store with annual revenues of over $70 million dollars. Responsible for the development of several new store openings, which served as the gold standard for training and developing next generation leaders for the company. Responsible for 200 employees and 12 assistant managers while managing a P/L of $70+ Million per year.

Cornell University Food Executive Program

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services

Bachelor Of Arts - (Ba), Communication/Business

Sam Walton Institute Of Retailing Certificate, Retail Operations