Trade Kitchen Sales & Growth Specialist

Howden Joinery Limited; Scotland; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance bonus

Pension plan with up to 12% company 贡献

32 days leave (incl. bank holidays)

Staff discount on Howdens products

Share scheme (Buy-as-you-earn)

40 hour working week

No evenings or Sundays

Wellbeing support and Virtual GP

Team bonus

Job summary

Howdens Joinery Limited is hiring a Business Developer to grow local depot business in the UK. The role involves calling and visiting trade customers, building long-term relationships and converting conversations into sales.

You’ll support the depot team with lead generation, appointments and pipeline management. You’ll thrive if you are a confident communicator, commercially minded and motivated by targets, with experience in telesales or account management being helpful.

Qualifications

• Confident communicator capable of talking with customers face to face and on the phone.
• Ability to build relationships and convert conversations into opportunities.
• Commercially minded with a focus on driving sales and adding value.
• Self‑motivated, positive and proactive.
• Organised and reliable, able to manage customer activity and pipelines.
• Comfortable meeting call targets and activity levels.
• Experience in telesales, account management or customer‑focussed roles is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Call existing trade customers to build long-term relationships and grow future business.
• Use customer data to spot inactivity and bring accounts back on track.
• Manage a targeted customer list and achieve daily call activity levels.
• Keep up to date with customer projects to identify opportunities to add value and drive repeat business.
• Arrange surveys and appointments for Kitchen Sales Designers.
• Promote products, offers and events to keep customers engaged.
• Support administration, including invoicing and depot tasks.
• Work with the wider team to help the depot hit its targets and deliver great service.

Skills

Communication

Relationship building

Sales driven

Self-motivated

Organised

Target driven

Job description

Howdens Joinery Limited is hiring a Business Developer to grow local depot business in the UK. The role involves calling and visiting trade customers, building long-term relationships and converting conversations into sales.

You’ll support the depot team with lead generation, appointments and pipeline management. You’ll thrive if you are a confident communicator, commercially minded and motivated by targets, with experience in telesales or account management being helpful.