Beacon appointed Birte von Schwarzenfeld as the company’s senior vice president of commercial solutions. In the newly created role, von Schwarzenfeld will be responsible for the company’s commercial business serving non-residential roofing customers.
“We are very pleased to welcome Birte to the Beacon team,” Jonathan Bennett, executive vice president and chief commercial officer at Beacon, said in a prepared statement. “Her unique background in sales, leadership, corporate strategy, and management consulting in the supply chain and construction industries will bring additional expertise and momentum to achieving our Ambition 2025 plan. As we focus on our two core markets of residential and commercial roofing, Birte will lead our commercial team in our pursuit of relentless customer focus that drives growth and shareholder value. Her relationship-building style and strategic transformation and sales leadership experience will be important assets as we step further ahead in building a world class sales and marketing team.”
Prior to joining Beacon, von Schwarzenfeld worked at Hilti Group, most recently serving as the senior vice president, head of corporate strategy and development at the company’s headquarters in Liechtenstein. Prior to Hilti, she worked at Flex Inc., growing from a director to vice president and head of corporate strategy to a vice president and general manager of global account management.
Herndon, Va.-based Beacon distributes roofing materials and complementary building products. The company operates over 500 branches throughout all 50 U.S. states and six Canadian provinces.
