Kitchen sales designer Review
at Howdens
Level 3 Apprenticeship
Sales
Doncaster
Review Submitted: February 2025
Overall Rating
2.4 /5
The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!
2/5
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Overview of Role
2/5
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Skills Development
2.6/5
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Structure and Support
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis:
3/5
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.
To what extent do you enjoy your programme?
1/5
Hard to balance programme with job role as business needs always take over.
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
2/5
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.
Structure and Support
How well organised/structured is your programme?
4/5
Programme itself is well structured and easy to follow
How much support do you receive from your employer?
2/5
Not masses always there to ask questions to but again business needs always takes over as priority
How much support do you receive from your training provider when working towards your qualifications?
4/5
Training provider always on hand and responsive if i have any questions and provide monthly reviews for progress updates as well as workshops
How well do you feel that your qualification (through your training provider) helps you to perform better in your role?
2/5
definetly gives me new things to try and out and test and helps build up confidence
Are there extra-curricular activities to get involved in at your work? (For example, any social activities, sports teams, or even professional networking events.)
1/5
Not often, occasionally there are incentive days for depots to attend
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Howdens to a friend?
No
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
What tips or advice would you give to others applying to Howdens?
Be open to learn and develop to move up roles within depot.
