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 prioritises 'results driven' and 'reaching sales targets and KPI' as the first requirement.
📊 Quantify your sales track record: e.g. 'Consistently exceeded monthly sales targets by 15%, generating £180k revenue across 12 months in a trade-facing role'.
🎯 Highlight any experience conducting home visits, measuring spaces, or advising clients on product choices — the advert lists home visits as a core daily responsibility.
🛠️ Mention CAD software by name (e.g. Winner, Fusion, AutoCAD) even if basic — the advert notes CAD is preferred, and naming tools signals readiness for the Ready to Trade Programme.
🤝 Include a specific example of building trusted relationships with trade professionals or contractors, as the advert stresses loyalty with 460,000 trade customers as its core business model.
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- •Achieved 118% of annual sales target across 240 trade accounts, generating £210k in kitchen and joinery revenue within a single depot territory.
- •Conducted 15+ home visits per month to measure, design, and present CAD kitchen plans, converting 72% of consultations into confirmed orders.
- •Negotiated pricing on 80+ kitchen projects per quarter, maintaining an average gross margin of 38% while retaining 95% of repeat trade customers.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Howdens Joinery's reputation as the UK's number one trade kitchen supplier — backed by over 460,000 loyal trade professionals — makes the Kitchen Sales Designer role at your Bridgeton depot exactly the environment where my sales and design skills will deliver results. I bring proven experience achieving sales KPIs in a trade-facing setting, alongside a strong eye for design and the ability to build trusted, long-term customer relationships.
My background in trade sales and customer-facing design support has equipped me with the skills to conduct effective home visits, negotiate confidently on price while protecting margin, and guide clients from initial brief through to completed kitchen installation. I am comfortable working to depot targets and thrive when accountable for measurable commercial outcomes.
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Tecniche
- ›Walk us through how you would use CAD software to create a kitchen design from an initial client brief.
- ›How do you calculate margin when negotiating a discounted price with a trade customer?
- ›Describe the process you would follow when conducting a home visit to measure and assess a kitchen space.
- ›How would you use Howdens' product range to upsell or cross-sell joinery and hardware alongside a kitchen order?
- ›What steps do you take to ensure design accuracy and avoid costly errors before a kitchen order is placed?
Comportamentali
- ›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 manage a difficult trade customer relationship and how you resolved it.
- ›Give an example of when you had to balance a client's design aspirations with their budget constraints.
- ›Tell me about a time you had to negotiate confidently on price while protecting your company's margin.
- ›Describe a situation where you managed multiple customer projects simultaneously — how did you prioritise?
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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 balance a client's design aspirations with their budget constraints.