Get Ahead is an exciting business opportunity to run your own virtual outsourcing agency.
Are you looking for…
- The chance to run your own business and not have to start from scratch?
- The freedom and flexibility to balance your life as you need to?
- The opportunity to use all of your professional skills and hard-earned experience?
- The security of proven business systems and procedures?
- Mentoring from our founder and ongoing support from other successful partners?
…Get Ahead could be the solution for you.
Being a Get Ahead Regional Director
Get Ahead is a virtual agency providing all manner of admin and marketing support to businesses, entrepreneurs and solopreneurs across the UK.
As a Get Ahead Regional Director you will use networking and social media to build your business, identifying and developing relationships with individuals and organisations that would benefit from these services.
Working closely with your clients to understand their needs you will then put together a virtual team of Get Ahead virtual experts drawn from our group of over 80 business associates, each with their own areas of expertise.
While the virtual team you have put together delivers the work your clients need, you are there to oversee the project, ensure outstanding results, and develop your client relationships.
With the client project work done by the virtual team you will have the time to scale your business, confident in the knowledge there will always be the right support available, no matter how ambitious you are.
Hear from some of our Regional Directors
More About Get Ahead
Having taken a career break to start a family, Rebecca Newenham didn’t want to compromise when it came to her professional ambitions or her family life. Finding no opportunities that fitted her need for freedom, flexibility and autonomy she decided to create her own.
Rebecca founded Get Ahead in 2010 after recognising a gap in the market for business support services that offer the flexibility, value and performance that companies need to thrive in the fast-evolving digital world.
This year, Rebecca is looking for 4 remarkable, like-minded women to partner with Get Ahead and run their own regional offices.
What our Regional Directors say…
FIONA – ex retailer who set up Get Ahead Leeds in 2018
“I am not limited by my own skills or by my capacity. I love the fact that I can support any business as I know I can find the resource and skill set within the wider team. I love the fact that we are working on so many different projects, I love the variety of the clients and the work we do. And I love the variety in the team – I thrive on variety. No one day is the same and the work is never monotonous.
Being a Get Ahead Partner gives me a comfort blanket that I wouldn’t have had if I had set up on my own from scratch. A lot of people have asked me why I haven’t set up on my own – Get Ahead attracted me and I wanted to work in a collaborative and growing partnership.”
KRISTY – set up Get Ahead Southern Region in 2019 in partnership with a friend
“Get Ahead enables me to have total control over my professional success. And run my own business with absolute autonomy but feel very nurtured and cradled by Rebecca Newenham, the Get Ahead Regional Partners and the wider community. There is no line management structure, there is power in the whole Get Ahead network.
The best thing is the variety – variety of clients that we deal with, the wide ranging solutions that we come up with, all of these give me a buzz. I loved variety in some of my corporate work but I was drained of any energy as often the work was the same all the time. I now get energy every time I speak to a new client. Our work isn’t off the shelf – I love building a bespoke solution for each client. They come back to us due to the bespoke nature of our support.”
Get Ahead’s supportive team
Since 2017, Get Ahead has grown fast. Regional Directors (RDs) now run successful Get Ahead businesses from Yorkshire to Dorset, and from Surrey to Suffolk.
Founder Rebecca Newenham builds close relationships with each Regional Director, supporting them to grow their own Get Ahead business. She’s a committed champion of flexible working: an opportunity, not a compromise.
Every RD shapes the direction of the business: their ideas and feedback directly inform how Get Ahead grows. Rebecca is an advocate for each of her Regional Directors, and there’s little she enjoys more than helping a new RD build a thriving regional business.
Rebecca’s track record speaks for itself. In 2020 she was named one of the UK’s Top 100 Female Entrepreneurs, won Theo Paphitis’s Small Business Sunday award, and picked up SME News’s Business Elite Award. Get Ahead itself won the BFA’s Franchise Balance award in 2021, and most recently, Business Support Service of the Year at the 2026 Prestige Business Awards.
Rebecca writes a monthly column for Elite Franchise magazine, read it here.
Is Get Ahead the opportunity for you?
Join Get Ahead’s network and you become part of a supportive team, with a genuine say in the direction of the business. Each Regional Director has their own defined region, so the network supports each other rather than competing for clients.
We’re an award-winning business, recognised for our hard work and fresh thinking.
If you love managing people and want to join a fast-growing, supportive network, Get Ahead could be your next career move.
Who you are:
- Entrepreneurial and ambitious
- Confident and persuasive
- Excellent at face-to-face business conversations
- Probably from a marketing, sales, business development or project management background
- Someone who thrives as part of a supportive team
- A great people manager
Who we are:
- A highly successful, fast-growing franchise opportunity
- Passionate advocates for our Regional Directors with executive mentoring and full support
- Great listeners, taking input from our Regional Directors to grow the business
- An owner-run business, providing frequent face-time with Rebecca Newenham
- A great-value small business opportunity with low working capital requirement
- A home-based, flexible business opportunity
What do we provide to make your Get Ahead Business a success?
A scalable business model
- A unique business model to help you build your team and client network
- Your own region where you can grow as much as you choose, at your own pace
- No targets or upper cap on your earnings
The benefits of a fast-growing business
- Successful business model with proven results
- Quick and straightforward business set-up
- Extensive support network and knowledge base
Expert marketing
- Access our national campaigns, developed by the in-house marketing team
- Benefit from our existing brand equity and strong social media presence
- Receive a quarterly marketing toolkit with readymade collateral including blogs, infographics and videos
First-class training and mentoring
- Extensive induction programme covering every aspect of running a successful Get Ahead regional office
- Ongoing training, support and guidance, which will enable you to develop your business using proven techniques
- Detailed but easy-to-follow manuals that are simple to use and a great point of reference as your business develops
A super supportive team
- Regular check-ins with Rebecca, the Get Ahead founder
- Peer-to-peer support from your fellow Regional Directors, always available for help and advice
Interested to find out more?
Complete the form below or call 0330 223 7580. We’d love to be part of your next career move.
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