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Rowan Kessler

Sales Manager

Nashville, TN rowan.kessler@example.com +1 (555) 013-2204

Profile

Sales manager who coaches a team through a clean pipeline. Focused on discovery quality, forecast accuracy, and deals that survive implementation. Comfortable collaborating with stakeholders at Peakline Commerce, turning ambiguous requests into prioritized plans, and using Team coaching, Forecasting, Discovery, CRM, Negotiation to ship outcomes that managers can measure. Prefers concise writing, honest estimates, and documentation teammates can reuse.

Experience

Sales Manager Feb 2020 – Present

Peakline Commerce · Nashville, TN

  • Grew a six-person team to 118% of annual target with a weekly deal-review cadence.
  • Introduced a discovery checklist that reduced late-stage “wrong buyer” losses.
  • Partnered with CS so expansion conversations started 45 days after go-live.
Account Executive Aug 2016 – Jan 2020

Coral Bay Solutions · Nashville, TN

  • Closed mid-market software deals with a 3.2x quota over two consecutive years.
  • Built a referral loop with implementation leads that sourced 20% of new meetings.

Skills

Team coaching · Forecasting · Discovery · CRM · Negotiation · Enablement

Education

B.A. Communications Aug 2012 – May 2016

Cumberland College

Projects

Deal Review Card

One-page prompt covering champion, risk, next step, and date.