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 with a Personal Statement that explicitly references kitchen or interior sales experience and any CAD exposure, as the advert prioritises sales performance over design credentials.
📊 Quantify your sales achievements: e.g. 'Exceeded monthly sales target by 22% for 6 consecutive months, generating £85k in additional depot revenue'.
🎯 Highlight any experience conducting home visits, site surveys or client consultations, as the role specifically requires measuring and assessing clients' homes.
🤝 Showcase examples of building long-term trade or B2B relationships — Howdens' model is built on repeat trade professionals, so loyalty-driving behaviours are highly valued.
🚗 Confirm your full UK driving licence and vehicle access prominently in your CV header or skills section, as this is a stated non-negotiable requirement for the role.
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- •Exceeded monthly B2B sales targets by 18% over 9 consecutive months, contributing £110k in incremental revenue to the depot through proactive trade customer outreach.
- •Conducted 40+ home visits per month to measure, assess and design bespoke kitchen layouts using CAD software, achieving a 74% quote-to-order conversion rate.
- •Negotiated pricing on 120+ trade accounts annually, maintaining an average gross margin of 34% while retaining 95% of the existing customer base.
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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 950+ depots — makes the Kitchen Sales Designer role in Llandudno exactly the environment in which I want to develop my sales career. My track record of exceeding sales targets and building trusted relationships with trade customers aligns directly with the commercially minded approach Howdens requires.
My background in trade or retail sales has equipped me with the ability to manage multiple customer projects simultaneously, conduct consultative home visits, and negotiate confidently while protecting margin. I am comfortable working to KPIs and thrive when given clear performance goals. Although I am prepared to complete the Ready to Trade CAD programme, I bring a strong eye for design and a practical understanding of how to translate a client brief into a workable, inspiring kitchen layout.
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Interview questions
10 questions generated from this advert.
Technical
- ›How would you approach creating a kitchen design in CAD for a client with an awkward L-shaped layout and limited budget?
- ›Walk me through how you would conduct a home visit — what measurements and information would you gather and why?
- ›How do you use product knowledge to upsell or cross-sell items such as hardware or joinery alongside a kitchen order?
- ›Describe how you would protect margin when a trade customer pushes back on pricing during a negotiation.
- ›What steps would you take to resolve a design query raised mid-project by a trade customer's end client?
Behavioural
- ›Tell me about a time you exceeded a sales target — what actions did you take to achieve it?
- ›Describe a situation where you had to build trust quickly with a sceptical customer. What was your approach?
- ›Give an example of when you managed multiple customer projects simultaneously. How did you prioritise?
- ›Tell me about a time a customer was unhappy with a design or product. How did you handle it?
- ›Describe a situation where you had to balance achieving a sale with protecting profitability. What did you decide?
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 actions did you take to achieve it?
Describe a situation where you had to balance achieving a sale with protecting profitability. What did you decide?