Business Development Representative Italy

HousingAnywhere is Europe’s largest student rental platform, bringing together HousingAnywhere, Kamernet, and Studapart. The company is focused on creating a safe, online rental experience that helps 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. The role focuses on owning the Italian market growth end-to-end and 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 Italian 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.