Senior Support · Expat Founders & Executives · Spain & Portugal
Your business runs.
Your life begins.
Senior assistant support for founders and executives who have relocated to Spain or Portugal. Someone who takes the operations off your hands, so the business runs without you in every loop, and the life you moved for is actually yours.
Senior support for expats in Spain & Portugal
Experience
Available
or via agency
The Problem
You didn’t relocate
to spend more time
on your laptop.
Founders and consultants who relocate to Spain often make the same discovery within six months: the lifestyle they came for is happening outside the window. They’re still stuck in the same operational loops, just with better weather.
- Working through siesta because nobody else is handling the inbox
- On calls with London or New York until 7pm, then too drained to enjoy the evening
- Brilliant ideas sitting in a notebook because there’s no one to turn them into an execution plan
- Spanish admin, banking, tax, gestoría, eating hours on top of everything else
- Running a business that needs them in every loop, in a country that rewards switching off
- Billing UK or US rates from a Spanish lifestyle, but still working at the same pace as before they moved
- No system for capturing leads or nurturing relationships across time zones
- Client delivery always comes first. The aperitivo hour never happens
- Tools purchased, processes half-built, momentum lost every time life interrupts work
- Knowing they need to delegate, but not having the right person or the right brief
What We Take Off Your Plate
Every part of the life
you didn’t move here to manage.
Senior-level support across your business and your day-to-day life in Spain and Portugal.
- Inbox & calendar management
- Project & vendor coordination
- Chief of staff & back-office operations
- Marketing campaigns & content
- Workflow systems & SOPs
- Client & investor communications
- Hiring support & team coordination
- Research, reports & meeting prep
- NIE, residency & local bureaucracy
- Property search & housing logistics
- Local vendor & service navigation
- Travel planning & logistics
- Bilingual support, Spanish & Portuguese
- School & relocation admin
- Personal appointments & errands
- Local accountant & legal liaison
Three Service Tiers
Support that fits your life
as it actually is.
Start where you are. Scale as you need. All three tiers deliver senior-level execution, not task completion.
A dedicated, full-time assistant embedded in your business. Your right hand for operations, admin, strategy, and everything that sits between them.
Founders running businesses that need daily, consistent senior support across multiple functions.
- Fully dedicated to your business
- Chief of staff level support
- Operations, admin, and strategic projects
Committed hours each week with a senior assistant, the output of a full-time EA without the full-time cost. Consistent, senior-level work that keeps the business moving.
Consultants and executives who need consistent, high-level support but aren’t ready to commit to full-time.
- Guaranteed weekly hours
- Senior assistant, not junior admin
- Scales with your business rhythm
Personal, on-demand support, no retainer, no commitment. For the executive who needs someone exceptional available when it counts, without the overhead of a formal arrangement.
Busy professionals who need high-quality, responsive support for specific projects, travel, or busy periods.
- No retainer required
- Personal and discreet
- Business and personal life support
All rates are confirmed after your discovery call, scope, hours, and structure vary by client.
One Offer. Two Structures.
Built around your situation.
Hire directly, or run it as a managed monthly retainer. The support is the same, the structure fits what works for you.
Contract your assistant directly, a clean, direct relationship with the person supporting you. You manage the relationship, we make the match and handle the setup.
- Direct employment or contractor agreement
- Full transparency, you own the relationship
- Ideal when you want full control and integration
One fixed monthly retainer. NextAssist handles employment, compliance, and billing, you get a dedicated senior assistant, operational from week one, with no hiring process to manage. Adjust or pause as your situation changes.
- Fixed monthly rate, predictable, no surprises
- Fully compliant across Spain & Portugal
- Scale up, scale down, or pause, no long-term lock-in
Not sure which model fits your situation? We’ll tell you in 15 minutes.
Not sure which tier fits?
Tell us where you are. We’ll tell you exactly what you need.
Get in Touch →Permanent · Fractional · Concierge, we’ll find the right fit together.
The Expat Reality
You chose Spain and Portugal.
You didn’t choose the complexity.
You relocated to build a better life, not to spend it navigating NIE appointments, chasing local accountants, managing vendors across time zones, and running an inbox that never stops.
- Administrative bureaucracy in a language that isn’t yours
- Business operations spanning multiple countries and time zones
- No local network, yet everything depends on one
- The weight of running the business AND figuring out life
- Finding support you can actually trust with senior-level work
This is where
NextAssist comes in.
We are not a generalist VA service. We are the senior operational partner who holds your business together while you settle into your new life, someone who knows Spain and Portugal from the inside, thinks like a founder, and handles the work that demands real judgment.
What you get back
How It Works
From discovery call
to done.
A focused, discreet process, built to get the right person in place fast, without weeks of back-and-forth interviews.
We learn about your business, your goals, and the exact kind of support you need, including whether direct hire or agency billing makes more sense for you.
We identify the right person from our network, matched to your industry, working style, and the specific demands of your life in Spain or Portugal.
Your assistant is fully briefed and ready, most clients have someone in place within 5 business days of their discovery call. No long onboarding. Senior support from the first week.
The Person Behind It
I made the move.
I know what it actually takes.
I spent over a decade as a senior executive assistant, supporting founders, CEOs, and consulting principals across demanding, fast-moving businesses. Then I relocated to Spain. And I discovered first-hand what most people don’t tell you: the move itself is only the beginning.
The bureaucracy, the language gap, the time zones, the local systems, none of it stops because your ambitions don’t. I built NextAssist because I couldn’t find the kind of senior, trustworthy, locally-grounded support I knew founders actually needed.
This is not a mass-market service. Every client is placed with care, every assistant is senior, and I am personally involved in making sure the match is right. The standard is high, because I know exactly what a demanding founder needs.
Get in Touch
It starts with
one conversation.
Tell us where you are and what you need. We’ll come back within 24 hours with exactly how we can help, no pitch, just clarity.
We work with a small number of clients at a time. If you’re considering this, it’s worth reaching out now.