Site Acquisition Lead, Germany

Henriksson Storage was founded in 2025 with the vision of modernising the European self-storage industry. Since the beginning, we have acquired and now operate 25 sites across Sweden and the UK and have proven that self-storage can be built differently. It can be more flexible, faster and closer to how people actually live and move. Germany is the next step on our agenda: a market roughly ten times the size of Sweden, and a key step on our journey to becoming one of the leading self-storage operators in Europe.

We are now looking for a Site Acquisition Lead to help us grow the German market and build the playbook for how to find and acquire new sites.

• Scout, evaluate, and prioritize potential sites across the German market
• Develop a working network of brokers, landowners, developers, and local intermediaries with the goal of accessing opportunities before they're publicly listed
• Build proprietary intelligence on local land and commercial property pricing dynamics
• Lead negotiations on acquisition terms, balancing pace of expansion against commercial discipline
• Navigate German zoning, permitting, and municipal approval processes, working with legal counsels and local authorities
• Own the site pipeline end-to-end — from first scouting to signed deal — in close coordination with the rest of the team

Role requirements

• A background in commercial real estate acquisition, site selection, or land development within logistics, retail, or another site-intensive sector is beneficial but not necessary
• Necessary is instead a hunter's instinct, being relentless, exhibiting a never-give-up attitude, being proactive by default, comfortable cold-approaching landowners and brokers
• Strong negotiation skills and comfort operating without an established local playbook
• Familiar with German planning and permitting processes
• Fluent in German and professional English
• An entrepreneurial, "first person on the ground" mindset, paired with the stamina to keep pushing deals through long sourcing and permitting cycles without losing momentum
• Willingness to be based in Germany and travel regularly across target regions