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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Application advice
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⭐ Lead your CV personal statement with sales target achievement — the advert explicitly states 'results driven with experience of reaching sales targets and KPI' as a core requirement.
📊 Quantify your sales results: e.g. 'Exceeded monthly kitchen sales targets by 22% for 8 consecutive months, generating £180k in depot revenue'.
🎯 Mention any CAD or design software experience (even basic) prominently, as the advert lists CAD skills as preferred — frame it as a strength even if self-taught.
🤝 Highlight experience with trade customers or B2B relationships specifically, as Howdens serves 460,000 trade professionals and values trusted trade relationships.
🚗 Confirm your full UK driving licence and access to a personal vehicle in your CV profile or skills section, as home visits are a core part of this role.
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- •Exceeded monthly sales targets by 18% across 10 consecutive months, contributing £165,000 in annual depot revenue through proactive trade customer engagement and upselling on kitchen specifications.
- •Conducted 40+ home visits per month to measure, assess and design bespoke kitchen layouts using CAD software, achieving a 94% customer satisfaction score across all completed projects.
- •Negotiated pricing with 80+ trade accounts, maintaining an average margin of 32% while securing repeat business from 15 high-value contractors worth £60,000 in annual turnover.
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Dear Hiring Manager,
Howdens Joinery's reputation as the UK's number one trade kitchen supplier — and the Ready to Trade Programme's structured approach to developing designers — is precisely why the Kitchen Sales Designer role in Leigh-on-Sea appeals to me. My background in sales and customer-facing design roles has equipped me with the ability to build trusted relationships with trade professionals and consistently hit KPI targets in a depot environment.
My background in sales and design consultation means I am comfortable conducting home visits, translating client briefs into practical kitchen layouts, and negotiating pricing confidently while protecting margin. I have a strong eye for detail and understand how to guide both trade customers and their end clients through complex projects from initial survey to final specification.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›How have you used CAD software to create kitchen designs, and which packages are you familiar with?
- ›Walk me through how you would conduct a home visit — what measurements and assessments would you take?
- ›How do you use product knowledge to resolve a customer query mid-project?
- ›Describe your approach to protecting margin while negotiating price with a trade customer.
- ›How would you plan a kitchen layout for an awkward or non-standard space using design software?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you exceeded a sales target — what approach did you take?
- ›Describe a situation where you built a strong relationship with a difficult or demanding customer.
- ›Give an example of when you had to balance multiple customer projects simultaneously — how did you prioritise?
- ›Tell me about a time you had to adapt your communication style to suit a trade professional versus a homeowner.
- ›Describe a situation where a design project did not go to plan — how did you resolve it?
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?
Describe a situation where a design project did not go to plan — how did you resolve it?