Designer –Milton Keynes

We are recruiting for an experienced Designer to join Nolte Kitchens. This is role would suit a kitchen designer with a minimum of four years’ experience in the luxury kitchen design retail market. German kitchen experience is ideal and preferred.

Nolte Kitchens is a family owned business, one of Europe’s largest Kitchen manufacturing businesses and Germany’s Favourite Kitchen Brand, having been voted for the third time in a row. Product quality and innovation are at the heart of our success, creating market leading ranges which our dealers and customers alike love in equal measure. A truly global player we export to over 70 countries around the world and in the UK have 15 retail showrooms.

This role is based in our Milton Keynes Showroom. This role reports into the Showroom Manager.

Key responsibilities

• Deliver on kitchen sales targets and enhance opportunities for further income growth.

• Lead taking, booking design appointments and presenting designs to clients/customers, converting into sales

• Support with showroom marketing activities.

• Engaging with walk in customers and ensuring our clients/customers receive the highest level of customer service.

• Answering the phone and dealing with daily enquires and customer/client enquiries throughout a project.

• Use of internal systems including CRM reporting tools efficiently (training will be provided)

• Drawing new plans/designs based on customer/client brief.

• Surveying locations accurately in order to produce suitable designs for furniture to be installed

• Supporting the Dual Site Showroom Manager with ordering processes/liaising with our manufacturing colleagues in Germany and completion of technical drawings for customer/client projects.

• Provide an effective kitchen after-sales service to clients/customers to maintain and enhance business reputation and secure repeat business

• Ensuring the showroom is maintained to high level of cleanliness. Candidate requirements

• At least 4 years’ previous experience with design in a luxury kitchen retail or showroom environment. German kitchen experience preferred and desired.

• Good customer service and sales experience with some evidence of sales achieved in previous roles.

• Knowledge of design using CAD software. Training on our product design system (Winner) will also be provided.

• Proactive with a desire to learn and develop in the role

• Strong attention to detail

• Ability to prioritise work and manage multiple tasks

• Good communication and presentation skills and IT literate

• Ability to work as part of a team and independently

• Personable, friendly and confident with a can do attitude

• Driving Licence

What's on Offer

• Basic salary: £30,000-£33,000 DOE

• Commission based on sales (uncapped)

• Company pension (after three months).

• Perkbox discount scheme for hundreds of high street retailers.

• 25 days’ holiday a year plus bank holidays.

• Free hot drinks

• Opportunity for ongoing training and development

• Access to wellbeing services and an Employee Assistance Programme which provides access to 24/7 counselling and support helpline

Working arrangements

• Full time. 5 days a week to include late night on Thursday (7pm close) and Saturday working on a rota system (flexible day off in lieu during the week).

• The role is based at our Milton Keynes Showroom (on-site in person).

• Some occasional lone working in the Showroom.

Diversity

We recognise and value the importance of diversity to help make sure we have lots of different perspectives. We know that this will help us engage positively with our clients and customers and create happy teams full of people that want to learn and want to be inspired by each other and our different experiences and backgrounds