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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⭐ Lead your CV personal statement with sales target achievement — the advert explicitly prioritises "results driven" candidates who have "experience of reaching sales targets and KPI" above design credentials.
📊 Quantify your sales wins: e.g. "Exceeded monthly revenue target by 22% for 8 consecutive months, generating £140k in kitchen sales" — Howdens rewards depot-level performance metrics.
🎯 Mention any experience conducting home visits or client surveys, as the role explicitly requires visiting clients to measure and assess spaces — a differentiator few applicants will highlight.
🚗 Confirm your full UK driving licence and own vehicle access prominently in your CV header or profile — this is a stated essential requirement and omitting it risks automatic screening out.
🖥️ If you have any CAD or kitchen design software experience (even basic), name the tool explicitly (e.g. "Experienced with Winner Design / Fusion / ArtiCAD") — the advert flags CAD as preferred and training is provided, so any prior exposure strengthens your application.
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- •Exceeded monthly depot sales target by 18% over 6 consecutive months, generating £95,000 in kitchen and joinery revenue through proactive trade customer outreach.
- •Conducted 40+ home visits per quarter to measure, assess and design bespoke kitchen layouts, achieving a 91% conversion rate from survey to confirmed order.
- •Negotiated pricing on 120+ customer projects annually, maintaining an average margin of 34% while retaining 95% of trade accounts within a competitive local market.
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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 — makes the Kitchen Sales Designer role at your Putney depot a compelling next step. With a proven track record of exceeding sales targets and building trusted relationships with trade customers, I am confident I can drive depot performance while delivering the design quality your clients expect.
My background in sales and customer relationship management has equipped me with the skills to negotiate confidently, protect margin, and guide customers from initial brief through to final design sign-off. I understand the importance of conducting thorough home visits to capture accurate measurements and client requirements, and I am eager to develop my CAD design skills further through Howdens' Ready to Trade Programme.
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Technical
- ›Walk us through how you would plan and present a kitchen design to a trade customer and their end client.
- ›How do you use CAD or design software to create kitchen layouts, and what steps do you take to ensure accuracy during a home visit?
- ›Describe how you would protect margin when a customer pushes back on price during a negotiation.
- ›How do you stay up to date with kitchen product ranges and translate that knowledge into customer recommendations?
- ›A customer's measurements from a home visit don't match the depot plan — how do you resolve the discrepancy before ordering?
Behavioural
- ›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 build trust quickly with a new trade customer. What approach did you take?
- ›Give an example of when you had to manage a difficult client complaint during a project. How did you handle it and what was the outcome?
- ›Tell me about a time you had to juggle multiple customer projects simultaneously — how did you prioritise and stay organised?
- ›Describe a situation where you identified an upselling opportunity during a customer interaction and how you acted on it.
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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 build trust quickly with a new trade customer. What approach did you take?