Tuesday 25 June 2013

Internship HousingAnywhere.com

Field: Sales & Marketing
HousingAnywhere.com provides a platform that helps students rent rooms to and from each other while they travel around the world. The platform is free to use and is strictly student-to-student, no other advertisers or renting parties are permitted. HousingAnywhere.com helps universities sign up as platform members so their students can use and profit from our services. Through this process universities gain an extra tool to increase their supplies of off-campus housing and students have a unique outlet to find and rent rooms when they are going abroad.
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Anywhere International Expansion
Since our formation in 2009 we have launched our platform at 61 universities worldwide. From Rotterdam to Barcelona and all the way to Sao Paulo, Singapore, and Los Angeles: HousingAnywhere.com is a rapidly growing start-up. Starting in September we are expecting our growth to accelerate to an even faster pace – to over 100 universities by the end of the year.

To make this happen we are looking for interns who want to have international experience as well as valuable training in how to be a country manager.

Your Responsibilities
You will be responsible for expanding HousingAnywhere.com in one country, preferably your country of origin or current residence. You will be working from our office in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Through online channels you will recruit a team of 30 local students from your target country. These students will sell memberships of HousingAnywhere.com to their local universities. As Country Manager you develop a sales strategy and guide your team through the sales process.

Tasks of a “Country Manager”
- Make a strategy for selling & launching HousingAnywhere.com in your country.
- Recruit a team of local students through online channels. Guide your team through the process of convincing a university to join HousingAnywhere.com.
- Launch our platform at the universities together with your local team.
- Being involved in a monthly meeting with the top management.

Cool Things
- This is not the usual internship: You are not assisting a higher-level manager, YOU are the manager.
- You will work in an international start-up company.
- You will develop your sales, negotiation, leadership, and business communication skills.
- You will instruct a team of 30 people.
- You will have a lot of responsibility and will see direct results: if you do well, your 30 people in your team will do well, and thus HousingAnywhere.com will do well in your country.
- You will be part of a young, dynamic, and quickly growing company. Our team currently consists of 14 people, of which the oldest is 26 years old. - You will be based in the Netherlands, in Rotterdam, in the picturesque student neighborhood Kralingen. Rotterdam is the second biggest city in The Netherlands, and is one hour by train from the capital Amsterdam.

Characteristics we are looking for in our Country Managers:
- Independent: The ability to work independently (you report directly to the Founder of the company).
- Structured: The ability to work in a structured fashion: the only way to make sure that HousingAnywhere.com will not become a victim of its own growth, is to be very organized: you will need to work according to specific checklists of our framework, and develop the checklists yourself if they do not yet exist.
- Persistent: You will be guiding a Sales Team. A central characteristic of good sales people is that they are very persistent: they should be able to get many rejections and still continue their job. You should therefore be as persistent as they should be: motivating them to keep on going and keep on selling this product over and over again.
- Hard and motivated worker: We need someone who is a hard worker and is really passionate about HousingAnywhere.com. You will work 40 hours a week, but should HousingAnywhere.com grow much more rapidly than expected, we are looking for people who are willing to go the extra mile. It has happened that our interns had to work on a Sunday. Although this is not common, you should be prepared for it!
- Studies: You should be a third year student or higher. You should have an interest in the field of Sales & Marketing.
Time period
- 40 hours a week, starting 12 August (September could be possible too).
- The internship ends mid-January (end-December could be possible too).
- You will work from our office in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Payment
500 Euros per month + a bonus based on your team results.

Guida alla candidatura: You can apply by sending your CV and motivation letter to  anne@housinganywhere.com. In your motivation letter, please inform us why you want to work for a start-up company like HousingAnywhere.com, instead of the typical multinational company.
Please apply before June 30st, 23:00h!
The sooner you send your CV and motivation letter to us, the earlier we can start the interview process and reach to our decision.

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