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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⭐ Highlight your sales target achievement record at the top of your CV; the advert emphasises "results driven with experience of reaching sales targets and KPI" as a core requirement.
📊 Quantify your customer relationships: "Built trusted relationships with 50+ trade customers, achieving 115% of annual sales targets and £240k in revenue."
🌐 Emphasise any design or CAD experience, even if basic; the advert states "CAD skills are preferred" and offers training, so any existing capability strengthens your application.
🎯 Include evidence of home visit experience or site assessment work; the role requires conducting home visits to measure and understand client needs.
🤝 Demonstrate your ability to balance commercial targets with customer satisfaction; the advert values both "protecting margin and design integrity" and "delivering exceptional customer service."
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- •Achieved 118% of annual sales target across 45 trade customers, generating £285,000 in revenue and securing 12 repeat project referrals within 18 months.
- •Conducted 60+ home visits annually, assessing client requirements and delivering bespoke design solutions with 94% customer satisfaction rating and zero design rework requests.
- •Negotiated pricing on 35 projects whilst maintaining 28% gross margin, balancing customer budget constraints with design integrity and protecting depot profitability.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
I am writing to apply for the Kitchen Sales Designer position at Howdens Joinery in Hinckley. Your trade depot environment appeals to me because I am results-driven with proven experience in reaching sales targets and KPIs, and I excel at building trusted relationships with customers to influence buying decisions. My strong communication skills and attention to detail position me well to deliver exceptional design support to your 460,000+ trade professionals.
My background in sales and customer-facing roles has equipped me with the ability to conduct thorough assessments, negotiate confidently whilst protecting margins, and create practical solutions that exceed expectations. I hold a full UK Driving License and am committed to professional development, particularly in CAD design and product knowledge.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›Can you walk us through your experience with CAD software, and how you've used it to create kitchen designs or technical drawings?
- ›How do you approach measuring and assessing a client's space during a home visit to ensure accuracy in your design proposals?
- ›Describe your experience with product knowledge in kitchens or joinery; how do you stay current with product ranges and specifications?
- ›Tell us about a time you negotiated price with a customer while maintaining design integrity and protecting profit margins.
- ›How would you use Howdens' product range and knowledge to advise a trade customer on kitchen solutions that meet their client's needs?
Behavioural
- ›Describe a time you exceeded a sales target or KPI; what strategies did you use to achieve this?
- ›Tell us about a customer relationship you built from scratch; how did you establish trust and maintain it over time?
- ›Give an example of when you had to communicate a complex design idea clearly to a customer who wasn't design-savvy.
- ›Describe a situation where you had to balance a customer's budget constraints with delivering an exceptional design outcome.
- ›Tell us about a time you received feedback on your attention to detail; how did you respond and what did you learn?
STAR answer examples
Model answers using the Situation-Task-Action-Result framework. Adapt to your own experience.
Describe a time you exceeded a sales target or KPI; what strategies did you use to achieve this?
Tell us about a customer relationship you built from scratch; how did you establish trust and maintain it over time?