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 requires 'results driven with experience of reaching sales targets and KPI', so cite a specific percentage or £ value you have exceeded.
📊 Quantify your sales history: e.g. 'Consistently exceeded monthly sales targets by 18%, generating £320k in annual kitchen revenue across 45 trade accounts'.
🎯 Mention any CAD or kitchen design software (e.g. Winner, Fusion, ArtiCAD) in your skills section — the advert lists CAD as preferred, and naming the tool signals readiness before training begins.
🤝 Highlight trade or B2B customer relationship experience prominently — the role centres on building trust with trade professionals, so reference the type and volume of trade accounts you have managed.
🚗 Confirm your full UK driving licence and willingness to conduct home visits in your CV summary or cover letter, as this is a stated requirement for the role.
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- •Exceeded annual trade sales target by 22%, generating £285k in kitchen and joinery revenue across 38 active contractor accounts.
- •Conducted 120+ home visits per year to measure, specify and design bespoke kitchen layouts, achieving a 91% quote-to-order conversion rate.
- •Negotiated pricing on 60+ high-value kitchen projects, maintaining an average gross margin of 34% while retaining all key trade accounts.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Howdens Joinery's reputation as the UK's number one trade kitchen supplier — backed by a £2.4 billion turnover and 950+ depots — makes this Kitchen Sales Designer role in Barry a compelling next step. With a proven record of exceeding sales targets and KPIs in trade-facing environments, and a genuine eye for design, I am confident I can drive depot performance while delivering the design quality your trade customers expect.
My background in trade sales and customer relationship management has equipped me with the skills to build trusted, long-term partnerships with contractors and builders. I have experience conducting client-facing consultations, negotiating prices while protecting margin, and managing projects from initial brief through to completion. I look forward to complementing this with Howdens' Ready to Trade Programme to sharpen my CAD and product knowledge from day one.
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Tecniche
- ›Walk me through how you would use CAD software to produce a kitchen design from an initial home visit measurement.
- ›How do you ensure design integrity is maintained when negotiating price reductions with a trade customer?
- ›Describe your process for conducting a home visit — what do you measure, assess and document?
- ›How would you use Howdens' product range to upsell a trade customer from a mid-range to a premium kitchen specification?
- ›What steps do you take to resolve a product or design query raised by a trade customer mid-project?
Comportamentali
- ›Tell me about a time you exceeded a challenging sales target — what drove your performance?
- ›Describe a situation where you had to build trust with a sceptical trade customer. How did you approach it?
- ›Give an example of when you managed multiple customer projects simultaneously and how you prioritised your workload.
- ›Tell me about a time you had to negotiate firmly on price while protecting your company's margin.
- ›Describe a situation where your attention to detail in a design or specification prevented a costly error.
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Tell me about a time you exceeded a challenging sales target — what drove your performance?
Tell me about a time you had to negotiate firmly on price while protecting your company's margin.