Kitchen sales designer Review

by Howdens

Best Apprenticeship Employer

Rating

4.8/10

1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:

Measuring, planning and designing kitchens to sell to customers, while managing and maintaining an accurate lead bank while trying to maximise on conversion rate and margin profitability.

7/10

2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?

learned how to plan accurately on cad. Learned how to deal with different customer types and build confidence when speaking and closing deals to customers.

5/10

3. To what extent do you enjoy your programme?

Hard to balance programme with job role as business needs always take over.

2/10

4. How well organised/structured is your programme?

Programme itself is well structured and easy to follow

8/10

5. How much support do you receive from your employer?

Not masses always there to ask questions to but again business needs always takes over as priority

5/10

6. How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?

Training provider always on hand and responsive if i have any questions and provide monthly reviews for progress updates as well as workshops

8/10

7. How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?

definetly gives me new things to try and out and test and helps build up confidence

5/10

8. Are there extra-curricular activities to get involved in at your work? (For example, any social activities, sports teams, or even professional networking events.)

Not often, occasionally there are incentive days for depots to attend

2/10

9a. Would you recommend Howdens to a friend?

9b. Why?

Salary is borderline minimum wage (excluding bonus) for skilled work and added sales pressures. Bonus scheme is decent if targets are hit. 40 hour weeks are a bonus but it depends how its run in depot I'm fortunate to have a routine that works for me

10. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to Howdens?

Be open to learn and develop to move up roles within depot.