Rick Wohlers

Delivering Results and Enabling High Performing Teams through Transparency and Trust

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

About

Versatile Sales and Sales Operations Leader. Consistently high performing as an individual contributor and leader of both sales and sales operations teams. Highly successful at identifying and driving revenue generation and cost-reduction initiatives. Specialties: Financial Services, Sales Performance, Sales Leadership, Sales Incentives, Sales Operations

Experience

  • Deluxe (Full-time · 6 yrs 9 mos)
    • Director - Sales Compensation
      Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

      Leading end-to-end compensation design, administration and governance for sellers across the Deluxe enterprise.

    • Director, Client Management
      Jan 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

      National Sales Leader for Deluxe's Community FI Check Sales Team

    • Executive Director - Sales Operations
      Sep 2022 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr 4 mos

      Partnering with the CRO and Sales Leaders across the Deluxe enterprise to enhance and create clear lines of sight around, sales performance, sales incentives, and sales intelligence.

  • Director, Sales Operations at Taylor Communications
    Sep 2016 - Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    My teams were responsible for developing and executing the Go To Market strategy for the Secure and Customer Solutions (SCS) Division. Additionally, I led the Pre-Sales function (Solution Architecture, Estimating and RFPs) . As the organization centralized under a single brand in early 2019, my team evolved and the focus shifted to improving corporate sales effectiveness through optimizing processes and creating disciplines to deliver sustainable profitable growth.

  • Deluxe (27 yrs 9 mos)
    • Sr Manager - Sales Effectiveness
      Jan 2013 - Sep 2016 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      Led the go-to-market and pricing strategies for the company's 3rd Party relationships with National and State-level trade associations. Liaison between the Marketing, Sales, and Sales Enablement leadership teams ensuring business requirements were understood and met by all parties to maximize business results.

    • Market Manager - Business Development
      May 2010 - Dec 2012 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Led a group of 8 Business Development Executives, my team was responsible for identifying and cultivating profitable new business relationships with community-based financial institutions coast to coast.

    • Regional Business Consultant
      Jun 2008 - May 2010 · 2 yrs

      National role responsible for profitably retaining large at-risk clients while partnering with field sales staff.