BILINGUAL SALES PROFESSIONAL

Ronald A. Gehr

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HISPANIC METROLPOLITAN CHAMBER, Portland, OR

Business Development Coordinator September 2022 to February 2023 Provided Technical Assistance to Hispanic owned start-up or established businesses. Assisted in formulating business plans, licensing and permit applications with various governing bodies, financial management, promotion and advertising of their business via websites and social media, assistance in making presentations to banks for small business loans, assisting in securing an initial locale or new locale for their business, counseling on insurance matters.

SERVICE PARTNERS, Tigard, OR

Inside Sales Representative / Inventory Specialist, December 2021 to September 2022 Responsible for the sales of Gutter and Insulation products to contractors, homeowners, and random individuals. Approximately 75% of the contracting customers were Hispanic. Corresponding territory extends from Northern Oregon to Salem. Duties included inventory reconciliation.

DPI SPECIALTY FOODS, Tualatin, OR

Field Sales Representative August 2021 to October 2021 Responsible for 2 Fred Meyer Stores and was responsible for all issues having to do with DPI's presence in the store. The company represents over one hundred clients and handles hundreds of products in areas such as baked goods, deli meats, cheese, kosher, Asian, Mexican, other international foods, frozen products, produce, nutritional and organic products. A key portion of my duties were to order products throughout the store to assure that the shelves would always be full. My departure from DPI was due to the tearing of my bursa in my left knee.

NABISCO (MONDELEZ INTERNATIONAL), Portland, OR

Sales Service Representative August 2020 to July 2021 Responsible for ten stores: Fred Meyer, Safeway, Target and merchandised their entire portfolio of 24 products. Responsibilities included erecting and keeping full, displays of assorted sizes in multiple locations throughout the stores I was assigned to.

ADVANTAGE SOLUTIONS / SAS RETAIL SERVICES, Portland, OR Retail Sales Merchandiser October 2016 to August 2020 Represented over sixty manufacturers and covered 113 stores in the following industries: food, grocery, produce, pharmacy, health care and beauty, household chemicals, sporting goods, and hardware. Responsible for sale of new products, increasing orders of current inventory and establishing secondary displays throughout the Walmart, Fred Meyer, Safeway, and Albertson stores in my territory.

AG DAWN INTERNATIONAL, Anthem, AZ

Account Executive November 2006 to October 2016

I am Fully Bilingual (speak, read, write) - native Spanish speaker. Dawn specializes in the sales and promotion of Language Laboratory (translation) Software and Hardware components. Managed South American division.

RLI SURETY, Portland, OR

Surety Sales Executive October 2005 to November 2006 Opened and managed an office for the Underwriting and Marketing of Commercial and Fidelity bond products to insurance agents and brokers throughout Oregon. Required constant B2B in-person calls on prospective agents to appoint. Appointed 35 agents in that first year.

OLD REPUBLIC SURETY COMPANY

Senior Field Underwriter March 2000 to March 2004

Responsible for the marketing and underwriting of Contract, Commercial & Fidelity bond products to brokers and agents. Oversaw the Oregon and Washington territories, which resulted in an average of 30,000 of business miles accumulated on the company vehicle that was provided.

CNA SURETY CORPORATION, Los Angeles, CA

Commercial Surety Consultant March 1993 to March 2000 Opened a Commercial Surety underwriting and marketing office in Downtown Los Angeles. Primarily catered to Regional and National Brokers. Book of business was comprised of Fortune 500 companies. Expanded personnel after increasing sales volume by $600,000 in year one of operations.

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s Degree – Communication Studies

California State University, Northridge