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 measurable sales achievements — the advert explicitly requires experience hitting sales targets and KPIs, so open with a figure like "Consistently exceeded monthly sales targets by 15%".
📊 Quantify your sales results throughout your work history: e.g. "Grew account base by 22 trade clients in 6 months, increasing depot revenue by £34k".
🎯 Mention any CAD or design software experience (even basic) prominently — the advert lists CAD as preferred, and candidates who reference it will stand out against those who don't.
🤝 Highlight experience with trade or B2B customers specifically, as Howdens serves trade professionals rather than retail consumers — frame your customer relationship examples in that context.
🚗 Confirm your full UK driving licence and access to a personal vehicle in your CV summary or skills section, as this is a stated requirement for conducting home visits.
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- •Achieved 118% of annual sales target across a portfolio of 35 trade accounts, generating £290k in kitchen and joinery revenue within a single depot year.
- •Conducted 120+ home visits to measure and design bespoke kitchen layouts using CAD software, converting 74% of consultations into confirmed orders.
- •Negotiated pricing on 80+ trade projects, maintaining an average margin of 31% while retaining 95% of repeat trade customers over a 12-month period.
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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 over 950 depots — makes the Kitchen Sales Designer position in Sale a role I am keen to pursue. My track record of hitting sales targets in trade-facing environments, combined with a strong eye for design and confident price negotiation, aligns directly with what your Sale depot requires.
My background in sales and customer relationship management has seen me manage a portfolio of trade accounts, conduct on-site client visits, and deliver design-led solutions that protect both margin and customer satisfaction. I am comfortable working to KPIs and thrive when given clear commercial objectives to drive.
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Tecniche
- ›How have you used CAD software to produce kitchen or interior design plans, and which tools are you familiar with?
- ›Walk us through how you would conduct a home visit to measure and assess a client's kitchen requirements.
- ›How do you use product knowledge to resolve a customer query mid-project when the original specification is no longer available?
- ›Describe your process for creating a kitchen design that balances the client's aesthetic preferences with a trade customer's budget constraints.
- ›How would you approach protecting margin when a trade customer pushes back on pricing during a negotiation?
Comportamentali
- ›Tell me about a time you exceeded a sales target — what actions did you take and what was the outcome?
- ›Describe a situation where you had to build trust quickly with a new trade customer. How did you approach it?
- ›Give an example of when you had to manage a difficult client complaint during a project. How did you resolve it?
- ›Tell me about a time you juggled multiple customer projects simultaneously. How did you prioritise and stay organised?
- ›Describe a situation where you identified a sales opportunity that others had overlooked. What did you do and what was the result?
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Tell me about a time you exceeded a sales target — what actions did you take and what was the outcome?
Describe a situation where you had to manage a difficult client complaint during a project. How did you resolve it?