Codi Beane worked in banking when the opportunity came up to work at West End Roofing as an inside sales rep.
“My husband’s best friend works at West End Roofing,” Beane says. “He actually offered the job to my husband and I took it from him.”
Dealers Choice was operating out of the West End Roofing where Beane worked. She says that after an outside sales rep left the company, there wasn’t anybody to take over the position, so Beane took on the work.
“They thought it would be a good fit for me to expand my role into that,” she recalls. “It took off from there.”
In her current position, Beane’s responsibilities include a little bit of everything. She handles the day-to-day operations for Houston and San Antonio, manages two outside sales reps in those cities, handles the marketing for Dealers Choice’s Southern region, and more. The wide variety of experience and tasks meshes well with Beane’s desire to learn. She says that when she first began her job, she was “watching and enjoying YouTube videos of torch down applications and shingle manufacturing.” She’s also working on getting her forklift certification and is learning Spanish from her customers to better serve them.
Beane’s ultimate career goal is to get into management and have her own Dealers Choice branch before working her way to the top to become one of the foremost female figures in LBM.
When asked what will be the biggest challenge for the future of LBM, Beane thinks its currency.
“Staying current with customer needs and anticipating what future customers will want [is huge],” Beane says. This means that as more customers become accustomed to online ordering and bill pay, that the industry needs to embrace it immediately to stay “as fresh as our customers need us to be.”
