HousingAnywhere is Europe’s largest student rental platform, bringing together HousingAnywhere, Kamernet, and Studapart to help students find a trusted home away from home.
Your role
As a Business Development Representative (BDR) for the Private Landlord market, your primary mission is to expand HousingAnywhere's inventory by actively hunting and onboarding new property owners.
The Private Landlord team is a key driver of the marketplace’s growth and is now expanding. We are looking for a new Business Development Representative to own the Spanish market growth end-to-end. This role requires an entrepreneurial mindset, combining high-volume phone outreach with a data-driven approach to identify opportunities.
Key responsibilities:
- Outbound Acquisition: Identify, prospect, and acquire new private landlords primarily through cold calling and proactive outreach.
- End-to-End Onboarding: Educate landlords on product features, supporting them closely until they successfully score their first booking.
- Expectation & Objection Management: Confidently handle complex landlord objections while maintaining a professional partnership.
- Success & Revenue Optimization: Train landlords to use the product effectively to maximize their occupancy and revenue, while driving commercial growth.
- Relationship Management: Build strong, long-term relationships with landlords, acting as their trusted point of contact.
- Data-Driven City Strategy: Monitor your local portfolio performance, analyze the data and take action to improve your metrics.
- Product Advocacy & Problem Solving: Maintain a sharp eye for product issues in the user journey and proactively share actionable feedback.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Product and Customer Success teams to continuously elevate the landlord experience.
- Innovation: Proactively identify and support opportunities to improve processes through automation and AI.
Your profile
- Native Spanish and fluent in English.
- Hunter Mentality: Proven experience or strong comfort with high-volume cold calling and managing a pipeline from scratch.
- Commercial Polish: Excellent communication skills to negotiate and build trust over the phone.
- Growth Mindset: Highly self-motivated and passionate about learning and improving.
- Resilience & Adaptability: Thrives in a fast-paced environment and stays positive through change and rejection.
- Analytical Mindset: Ability to look at data to identify opportunities and improve performance.
- Solution-oriented: Thinks creatively, overcomes objections, and finds practical solutions to customer challenges.
- Innovation Mindset: Embraces AI and automation to work smarter and improve team efficiency.
What’s in it for you
- Unlimited paid holidays, minimum-based not maximum!
- Position based in our Rotterdam office with hybrid working policy (2 office days).
- Flexibility to work remotely for up to 2 months per year!
- 1,000 EUR personal development budget.
- Complete coverage for commuting.
- Personal equipment, including laptop and ergonomic setup.
- Gym membership discount with GoVital or OneFit.
- Dutch/English classes budget.
- Variable pension scheme.
- Diverse international community (46+ nationalities).
- Pet-friendly office in Rotterdam city centre.
- Team-building events and after-work drinks every Friday.