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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⭐ Highlight any sales target achievement prominently in your Personal Statement — the advert explicitly requires experience of reaching sales targets and KPIs.
📊 Quantify your sales results: e.g. "Exceeded monthly revenue target by 22% for 8 consecutive months, generating £140k in new trade account sales."
🎯 Mention any CAD or kitchen/bathroom design software experience (even basic) near the top of your Skills section — the advert lists CAD as preferred, signalling it will differentiate candidates.
🤝 Include a specific example of managing trade or B2B customer relationships in your work history — the advert repeatedly emphasises building trusted relationships with trade professionals.
🚗 Confirm your full UK driving licence and vehicle access clearly in your CV header or profile — the advert lists this as a hard requirement for conducting home visits.
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- •Exceeded monthly depot sales target by 18% across 10 consecutive months, contributing £165k in incremental trade kitchen revenue.
- •Conducted 40+ home visits per month to measure and specify kitchen layouts, achieving a 74% quote-to-order conversion rate.
- •Built a portfolio of 85 active trade accounts through proactive relationship management, increasing repeat order value by 31% year-on-year.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Howdens Joinery's reputation as the UK's number one trade kitchen supplier — and the structured Ready to Trade Programme — makes the Kitchen Sales Designer role in West Lothian exactly the right next step for my career. I bring a proven track record of exceeding sales targets and KPIs alongside the ability to build trusted, long-term relationships with trade professionals and their clients.
My background in trade sales and customer-facing design support has equipped me with the negotiation skills and commercial awareness needed to protect margin while delivering outstanding results. I am comfortable conducting home visits, translating client briefs into practical kitchen plans, and managing projects from first consultation through to completion. I am also keen to develop my CAD proficiency further through Howdens' comprehensive training.
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Technische
- ›Walk me through how you would use CAD software to produce a kitchen design for a trade customer's client.
- ›How do you approach measuring a kitchen space during a home visit to ensure accurate planning?
- ›Describe how you would use product knowledge to resolve a customer query mid-project.
- ›How do you balance design integrity with price negotiation when protecting depot margin?
- ›What steps do you take to stay up to date with kitchen product ranges and industry trends?
Verhaltensbezogene
- ›Tell me about a time you exceeded a sales target — what actions did you take to achieve it?
- ›Describe a situation where you had to build trust with a difficult trade customer. How did you approach it?
- ›Give an example of when you managed multiple customer projects simultaneously. How did you prioritise?
- ›Tell me about a time a customer was unhappy with a design or product. How did you resolve it?
- ›Describe a situation where you had to negotiate a price confidently while protecting your company's margin.
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Tell me about a time you exceeded a sales target — what actions did you take to achieve it?
Describe a situation where you had to build trust with a difficult trade customer. How did you approach it?