Kitchen Sales Designer
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Join Howdens where our trade depots are recruiting Kitchen Sales Designers who thrive in a fast-paced sales environment. We’re looking for commercially minded individuals who can build strong relationships, influence buying decisions and exceed sales targets.
We can offer you a successful career as a Kitchen Sales Designer, and you don’t need previous design experience. We’ll provide you with comprehensive design and sales training to create exceptional kitchens for our trade customers and their clients.
What we can offer you:
- Competitive salary, brilliant bonuses and outstanding depot incentives
- Full CAD, product and sales training via our Ready to Trade Programme
- Competitive Pension Plan up to 12% company contribution
- Up to 32 days annual leave per year including bank holidays, rising with service
- Generous staff discount on Howdens products
- Buy-as-you-earn share scheme
- 40 hour working week working every other Saturday morning.
- No Sunday or Bank Holiday working
- Career progression opportunities into sales management roles
- Virtual GP access and wellbeing support for you and your family
What we are looking for:
- Results driven with experience of reaching sales targets and KPI
- Ability to build trusted relationships with our trade customers and their client
- Excellent communication skills, able to convey your ideas clearly and effectively
- Full UK Driving license with access to your own vehicle for home visits
- Strong attention to detail and an eye for design
- CAD skills are preferred, but not essential as you will receive training
What you will be doing:
- Driving sales performance and profit by achieving your depot targets
- Building strong customer relationships through professional design support
- Delivering exceptional customer service throughout the project
- Conducting home visits to measure, assess and understand your client’s needs
- Negotiating prices confidently while protecting margin and design integrity
- Planning and creating inspirational and practical designs utilising your strong product knowledge to advise customers and resolve queries throughout the process
About Us:
Howdens Joinery is the UK’s number one trade kitchen supplier providing thousands of products across kitchens, joinery, and hardware. We have over 950 depots throughout the UK and Europe, making us the first choice for more than 460,000 loyal trade professionals. With an ambitious and credible growth plan, we continue to build on our £2.4 billion turnover.
How to apply:
If Howdens sounds like the kind of place where you can build and develop your career as a Kitchen Sales Designer, then we are keen to hear from you.
Howdens is founded on the principle of being Worthwhile for ALL concerned. We’re working hard to ensure we provide an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome. We will do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, please email with the job title and location, and we will be happy to help you.
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⭐ Lead your CV personal statement with sales target achievement — the advert explicitly states 'results driven with experience of reaching sales targets and KPI' as a core requirement.
📊 Quantify your sales results: e.g. 'Exceeded monthly kitchen sales targets by 22% over 6 consecutive months, contributing £180k in depot revenue'.
🎯 Mention any experience conducting home visits or client-facing measuring/surveying, as the advert specifically lists 'conducting home visits to measure, assess and understand client needs' as a key duty.
🖥️ If you have CAD or kitchen design software experience, name the specific tool (e.g. Winner Design, Fusion, ArtiCAD) — the advert lists CAD as preferred, so even basic proficiency is a differentiator.
🤝 Highlight trade or B2B relationship management experience prominently, as the advert repeatedly emphasises building trusted relationships with trade customers and their clients.
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- •Achieved 118% of annual kitchen sales target across 11 consecutive months, generating £210k in depot revenue through proactive trade account management and upselling premium product ranges.
- •Conducted 40+ client home visits per month to measure, assess and brief CAD kitchen designs, reducing post-order amendment requests by 30% through accurate on-site scoping.
- •Negotiated pricing on 150+ trade orders annually, maintaining an average gross margin of 38% while retaining 95% of repeat trade customer accounts.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Howdens Joinery's reputation as the UK's number one trade kitchen supplier — serving over 460,000 trade professionals from 950+ depots — makes the Kitchen Sales Designer role in Cambridge a compelling next step. With a track record of exceeding sales targets and building trusted relationships with trade customers, I am confident I can drive depot performance and deliver the design-led customer experience Howdens is known for.
My background in trade sales and customer-facing design support has equipped me with the commercial acumen and communication skills this role demands. I have consistently met and surpassed KPIs in previous positions, conducted home visits to assess client requirements, and used design tools to translate briefs into practical, inspiring spaces. I am eager to build on this through Howdens' Ready to Trade Programme and your full CAD and product training.
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Technische
- ›Walk me through how you would use CAD software to plan a kitchen for a client with an irregular-shaped room.
- ›How do you ensure your kitchen designs remain practical as well as visually appealing?
- ›Describe your process for conducting a home visit — what do you measure and assess?
- ›How do you use product knowledge to resolve a customer query mid-project?
- ›How would you approach protecting margin when a trade customer pushes back on price?
Verhaltensbezogene
- ›Tell me about a time you exceeded a sales target — what did you do differently to achieve it?
- ›Describe a situation where you had to manage a difficult customer relationship and how you resolved it.
- ›Give an example of when you had to balance multiple customer projects simultaneously — how did you prioritise?
- ›Tell me about a time you had to negotiate confidently under pressure — what was the outcome?
- ›Describe a situation where your attention to detail prevented a costly mistake in a project.
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Réponses modèles avec la méthode Situation-Tâche-Action-Résultat. À adapter à votre vécu.
Tell me about a time you exceeded a sales target — what did you do differently to achieve it?
Describe a situation where your attention to detail prevented a costly mistake in a project.