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
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Application advice
5 AI-generated recommendations to maximise your chances.
⭐ Lead your CV with a Personal Statement that explicitly references kitchen or interior sales experience, as the advert prioritises sales performance over design qualifications.
📊 Quantify your sales achievements with specific figures, e.g. 'Exceeded monthly sales targets by 22% for 8 consecutive months, generating £180k in depot revenue'.
🎯 Highlight any experience conducting home visits or client consultations, as the role specifically requires measuring and assessing clients' homes — mention this in your work experience bullets.
🛠️ If you have CAD experience (even basic), name the software explicitly (e.g. Winner Design, Fusion 360, AutoCAD) — the advert lists CAD as preferred and mentioning it will strengthen your application.
🤝 Demonstrate trade customer relationship management in your CV, referencing the type of trade professionals you have worked with (e.g. builders, contractors), as Howdens serves 460,000 trade professionals.
Suggested CV bullets
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- •Exceeded depot sales targets by 18% over 6 consecutive months, contributing £210k in incremental kitchen revenue through proactive trade customer engagement and upselling.
- •Conducted 40+ home visits per month to measure and assess client requirements, converting 72% into confirmed kitchen design orders with an average project value of £8,500.
- •Utilised CAD design software to produce 15+ bespoke kitchen plans weekly, reducing design revision requests by 30% through accurate initial client briefing and detailed product specification.
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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 this Kitchen Sales Designer role in Chalfont St. Peter exactly the environment where I want to develop my career. With a proven track record of exceeding sales targets and KPIs, and a genuine eye for design, I am confident I can drive depot performance while delivering outstanding design support to trade customers and their clients.
My background in trade or retail sales has equipped me with the relationship-building skills and commercial awareness needed to influence buying decisions and protect margin during price negotiations. I am comfortable conducting home visits to assess client needs and translating those requirements into practical, inspirational kitchen designs — skills I am eager to develop further through Howdens' Ready to Trade Programme.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›Walk us through how you would use CAD software to create a kitchen design for a client with an irregular-shaped kitchen.
- ›How do you calculate margin when negotiating a discounted price with a trade customer?
- ›Describe the process you would follow from a home visit through to final kitchen design sign-off.
- ›How do you use product knowledge to resolve a customer query mid-project when a specified product is unavailable?
- ›What metrics would you track daily to ensure you are on course to hit your depot sales targets?
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 sceptical trade customer. How did you approach it?
- ›Give an example of when you had to negotiate a price while protecting your company's margin. What was the result?
- ›Tell me about a time you managed multiple customer projects simultaneously. How did you prioritise and what was the outcome?
- ›Describe a situation where a customer was unhappy mid-project. How did you resolve it and retain the relationship?
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
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 negotiate a price while protecting your company's margin. What was the result?