Kitchen & Bathroom Designer
Elliotts is a family-owned builders merchant that’s been helping the south build since 1842. We’re in the business of doing great work with great people. Become part of our incredible team!
Hours: 40 hours per week, 8.00am-5.00pm Monday – Friday, plus Saturdays 8.00am-12.00pm on a rota basis however, we can be flexible on hours.
About Elliotts
Our core purpose is to help our customers build. At Elliotts, we’re clearly doing something right.
We’ve been around for over 180 years – But we couldn’t do it without our people. From our drivers to our operations team and everyone in between. We’re one big team. We have over 300 people working for Elliotts. Our CEO, Tom is the great-great-great grandson of our founder!
Still chosen by customers in a crowded market – Customers continue to choose us because we provide anything they need to build a house. But they choose us because we treat them like human beings, creating a strong relationship and building loyalty.
Values that reflect our business – we look after our team. We care. We listen. We try to help. We work harder than anyone else to put things right if they go wrong. We think about the long term, not just the here and now.
To succeed you’ll be a great team player with a can-do attitude, and you’ll be right at home.
Living Spaces is our dedicated Kitchen and Bathroom offering consisting of 4 showrooms across Hampshire. We work with homeowners and housebuilders on projects ranging from small kitchen renovations to multi-plot developments.
The role
Our Living Spaces kitchen & bathroom designers support our customers from the moment they first step foot in to one of our stunning showrooms to moment that our installation team has finished fitting that last cupboard door. They have full ownership of every customer project that they take on.
Your role as a kitchen & bathroom designer will be to deliver the highest levels of customer service, whilst using all your creative design ability and experience to help create the perfect kitchen for all of our customers.
Our customers trust us to help create a permanent design statement within their homes. This is a responsibility that we do not take lightly and so to be successful in this role you must be able to demonstrate the same pride and care in your work as we do.
What does an average day look like?
• Handling all aspects of the design, planning and installation through to completion, including:
• Imaginative kitchen/bathroom design, planning, CAD work and on-site surveys
• Converting kitchen and bathroom designs and quotations into sales orders
• Driving sales turnover and building repeat customer relationships
• Improving profit and margin through solution selling
• Ordering products
• Arranging installations when necessary
Ideally you will have:
• Previous design and sales experience is essential
• Demonstrate a passion for sales and design with an ability to deliver creative ideas and inspiration
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to communicate clearly
• High levels of customer service with a sales focus
• Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple projects
• Knowledge of Winner Design, Virtual Worlds and EQ Software systems would be an advantage though not essential as training will be provided
• Driving license in order to carry out customer visits (essential)
Salary - basic plus commission 32k-35k OTE
Some of our additional benefits include:
Annual profit share scheme
24/7 wellbeing support
Cycle to work scheme
Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
Christmas Hamper
Monthly pizza on us!
- Team
- Kitchens & Bathrooms
- Locations
- Romsey, Southampton
Perks of the job
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Unlimited training
There’s no cap on how much we’ll invest in your career. Join Elliotts and you’ll take ownership of your own development, with endless opportunities to learn, grow and develop. -
Profit Share
We run this business together, so when we do well, so do you! -
Family friendly
We offer our team enhanced pay for maternity and paternity leave. You’ll get 6 months full pay for maternity and 2 weeks full pay for paternity, going above and beyond the statutory requirements. We’ll even send you a baby hamper to celebrate the occasion.
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Wellbeing
The wellbeing of our teams is important to us and we provide a range of benefits to support you, including 24 hour access to GPs, confidential mental health support, physiotherapy as well as financial and wellbeing support when you need it.
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Team Trust Fund
We’ve also established a Team Trust Fund which aims to assist staff with a wide range of issues in a private and dignified manner, the door is always open and we support as much as we can. Whatever life throws at you, we’ve got your back.
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Pension contribution
We contribute 5.5% of salary to your workplace pension (2.5% above the government minimum) and we will further match your own contribution up to 10% after 10 years service.
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The little things
We’re running out of space…but whether it’s long service awards, payday pizza, recognition for a job well done, our famous Christmas hampers, staff discount or simply the friendly culture, we go the extra mile so you feel like a valued member of our incredible team.
What's it like at Elliotts?
One word comes up all the time. Friendly.
We’re not big on bureaucracy. But we ace ambition.
And when you need help, you’ll have some of the brightest, friendliest people at hand.
About Elliotts
Elliotts is a family-owned builders merchant that’s been helping the south build since 1842.
We’re in the business of doing great work with great people.
Become part of our incredible team!
Kitchen & Bathroom Designer
Elliotts is a family-owned builders merchant that’s been helping the south build since 1842. We’re in the business of doing great work with great people. Become part of our incredible team!
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