Ryan Bristol Email & Phone Number

Toledo, Ohio Metropolitan Area

Toledo, Ohio, United States

• Reported to the Senior Vice President. Responsible for managing and leading a team of up to 21 associates, including the Director of Capacity Solutions, Senior Manager of Capacity Solutions and Capacity Buyers, to.
• Bid on more than 10,000 transactional loads per week across multiple customers nationwide.
• Initiated and opened Transactional Spot Pricing department in 2015 and provided more than $60 million in Transactional Spot Margin during tenure.
• Worked with outside sales from initiation of department to identify and onboard 600 transactional spot customers, resulting in $425M in revenue at approximately 15% margin clip.
• Helped grow the local office from zero employees to over 100 employees, managers and Senior Directors in Customer Service, Carrier Sales, Tracing, and Capacity Buyers. - Set up a program with a temporary employment.
• Provided contractual pricing support for Large Annual Transportation Bids, resulting in the annual awards of over $100M in contracted business.

Toledo, Ohio Area

Toledo, Ohio Area

• Reported to the Vice President. Responsible for managing a team of up to 15 associates, including the Senior Manager of Transactional Pricing, Manager of Transactional Pricing and Freight Specialists, to provide.
• Bid on more than 10,000 transactional loads per week.
• Helped grow the local office from zero employees to over 50 employees, managers and Senior Directors in Customer Service, Carrier Sales, Tracing and Capacity Buyers.- Set up a program with a temporary employment firm.
• Provided contractual pricing support for Large Annual Transportation Bids, resulting in the annual awards of over $50M in contracted business.
• Participated in strategic planning and long-term planning.
• Performed forecasting, and prepared annual operating budgets.

Toledo, Ohio Area

• Vice President, Pricing and Procurement: Reported to the Chief Operating Officer. Responsible for planning and directing all pricing and procurement activities for the nationwide operation. Managed, trained and.
• Grew a start-up brokerage operation from $10,000 in gross monthly margin to in excess of $300,000 in gross monthly margin.
• Provided all pricing support for RFP’s and transactional opportunities.

Toledo, Ohio Area

• Director, Carrier Development: Reported to the Vice President of Carrier Development. Responsible for collaborating with truckload and LTL carriers to provide nationwide Third Party logistics services to Fortune 500.
• Created Transactional Pricing Department that grew from $150,000 in gross margin to in excess of $3,000,000 in gross margin with an 18 month period. Recruited, hired and trained 6 new employees from outside the.
• Provided all pricing support for RFP’s and transactional opportunities, resulting in $40M in contractual awards annually.
• Established Routing Guides to provide to individual facilities for the movement of their products.
• Maintained relationships with carriers, their sales force and senior leadership to ensure quality of agreed upon service and capacity. Reviewed and executed Transportation contracts with these providers.
• Trained employees to send out RFP’s to market and how to analyze these RFP’s. Supervised employees in Carrier Development, RFP, and Transactional Spot Pricing.

Ann Arbor, MI

• Senior Truck Load Buyer: Reported to the Director of Truck Load Procurement. Responsible for collaborating with truckload and LTL carriers to provide nationwide Third Party logistics services to Fortune 500 Companies.
• Helped develop freight bidding and capacity tools. Improved the bidding process, which improved vendor response and enable the team to provide stronger and more efficient provider and overall savings.
• Executed on-site business reviews with clients to identify new opportunities and maintain relationships.
• Established Routing Guides to provide to individual facilities for the movement of their products.
• Maintained relationships with carriers, their sales force and senior leadership to ensure quality of agreed upon service and capacity. Reviewed and executed Transportation contracts with these providers.
• Consulted on-site with multi-billion dollar customers such as Ford Motor Company and Visteon to ensure proper implementation of the Third Party Truckload and LTL Routing Guides. Worked with individual plants and.

Toledo, Ohio

• Worked with the transition to SAP across the logistics function
• Managed the daily transportation needs of multiple production facilities

US Navy E5 Operation Specialist/Air Intercept Controller, 1989 - 1993Served in Gulf War and Somalia

Mba, Business

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Education

Associate Degree, Mathematics Education

Master Of Business Administration - Mba