Ryan Ehrhardt Email & Phone Number

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Lead a team of 4 for outside sales dealing with universities, high schools, youth organizations and foundations throughout North America to provide them with the hard and soft goods they desire for their program. From scratch I developed the program used for these teams, including customized solutions. I developed a large (1000+) database to use for automated emails, personal information, status updates on potential clients and linked documents to provide more in-depth status updates on current clients and their orders. Custom solutions provide sometimes difficult tasks to complete, such as; navigating complex state requirements for a vendor that vary by state, logistic coordination between the vendor, client and myself, and creating multi-year agreements with varying degrees of complexity based on the needs of the client and vendor. Routinely surpassed sales goals annually by 200-300%+. I use ACV, ARR and MRR to determine how much inventory to bring in for JIT sales for these programs as well as booked goods 6-9 months out. Use CAC to determine the worthiness of targeting specific potential clients. Lastly, my churn rate is 1% - proof that customers are extremely satisfied with our pricing and service. While in this role I maintained all COO duties as well.

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Lead team of 12 for the day-to-day retail operations of the business as well as the leader of strategic planning, forecasting, HR, purchasing and receiving, accounts payable and receivable, advertising, social media, charity involvement, media relations, and more. Systems implemented during my time led to a 600% increase in retail sales and created a RIO 40% higher than industry average. Bi-annually gave consultation to national buying group, vendors and outside research groups.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

Help non-profit on the strategy to accumulate and then disperse funds to under-privileged children in the Des Moines metro area to allow them to play ice hockey. Led team of 5 for 4 consecutive years on best grossing event which required sponsorship accumulation, merchandise, charitable donations, awards and organized competitive aspect of play. Co-chair for 2 years on distribution of funds which required determining need and reviewing written application letters. Created a program that went from 2015 to 2017 with help of the Iowa Wild, pro hockey team, to raise awareness and allowed for tremendous net profit for the foundation.