Kitchen Sales Designer
Job description
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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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Key skills extracted
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Our tips for applying
5 recommandations générées par notre IA pour maximiser vos chances.
⭐ Lead your CV personal statement with a direct reference to sales target achievement and trade customer relationship management, as the advert lists these as its top two requirements.
📊 Quantify your sales results wherever possible: e.g. 'Exceeded monthly sales targets by 22% for 8 consecutive months, contributing £180k in depot revenue.'
🎯 Mention any CAD or kitchen/bathroom design software experience (even basic) prominently — the advert flags it as preferred and training is offered, so showing prior exposure sets you apart.
🚗 Explicitly confirm your full UK driving licence and vehicle access in your CV profile or a dedicated 'Key Credentials' section, as home visits are a core part of the role.
🤝 Highlight experience dealing with trade professionals or contractors specifically — Howdens serves 460,000+ trade customers, so B2B or trade-facing sales background is a strong differentiator over general retail sales.
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- •Exceeded monthly trade sales targets by 18% over 10 consecutive months, generating approximately £210k in incremental depot revenue through proactive customer outreach and upselling joinery accessories.
- •Conducted 15+ home visits per month to measure, assess and design bespoke kitchen layouts using CAD software, achieving a 91% quote-to-order conversion rate across a 12-month period.
- •Negotiated pricing on 40+ trade accounts simultaneously, maintaining an average gross margin of 34% whilst retaining 95% of the existing customer base during a supplier cost-price increase.
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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 at Eastleigh a natural next step for me. My background in trade sales and client-facing design consultation means I can hit the ground running on depot targets, home visits, and building the trusted relationships your trade customers rely on.
My background in sales and customer relationship management has equipped me with a strong track record of exceeding KPIs, negotiating confidently on price whilst protecting margin, and translating client briefs into practical, inspiring designs. I am comfortable conducting home visits, gathering detailed measurements, and managing multiple projects through to completion with a high standard of customer service at every stage.
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Technical
- ›Walk me through how you would use CAD software to create a kitchen design from a client's measurements taken during a home visit.
- ›How do you ensure your kitchen designs are both aesthetically appealing and practically functional for trade customers' end clients?
- ›Describe your process for conducting a home visit — what information do you gather and how do you translate it into a design proposal?
- ›How would you use product knowledge to upsell or cross-sell Howdens joinery and hardware alongside a kitchen order?
- ›How do you protect margin when a customer pushes back on price during negotiation?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you exceeded a sales target — what approach did you take and what was the outcome?
- ›Describe a situation where you had to build trust with a difficult or sceptical trade customer. How did you approach it?
- ›Give an example of when you managed multiple customer projects simultaneously. How did you prioritise and stay organised?
- ›Tell me about a time a design or order did not go to plan. How did you resolve it and what did you learn?
- ›Describe a time you had to negotiate confidently on price while maintaining the integrity of a project. What was the result?
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Tell me about a time you exceeded a sales target — what approach did you take and what was the outcome?
Describe a situation where you had to build trust with a difficult or sceptical trade customer. How did you approach it?