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Claus E.

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Senior IT Project Manager – Digitalization in Insurance & Telecommunications

Kufstein
Claus E.

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Senior IT Project Manager – Digitalization in Insurance & Telecommunications

  • Initiation, planning, management and completion of several digitalization projects

  • Requirements management including proposal preparation, business concepts & process analyses

  • Stakeholder management (internal steering, external service providers, business units)

  • Resource & capacity planning, controlling, budget responsibility

  • Claim and change management (including escalation handling)

  • Project marketing & knowledge management

  • Quality assurance & risk management in line with PMO standards

  • Implementation of a cloud-based solution in customer service (insurance)

  • Harmonization & digitalization of approval and contract processes

  • Reduction of processing times by >20 % through optimized workflows

  • Establishment of standardized project controlling with BI dashboard

  • Jira • Confluence • MS365 (Project, Teams, SharePoint) • ITIL • PRINCE2

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Banashankari N.

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Senior IT Project & Program Manager

Zürich
Banashankari N.

Last position:

Senior IT Project Manager, Data and Integration Platform at MCH Group, Group IT

Led implementation of an Azure cloud-based, event-driven enterprise integration platform connecting Salesforce, Momentus(event) and ERP applications. Reduced overall costs by 60%, lowered operational errors to under 1%, and delivered on time.

  • Led the full project lifecycle from initiation to delivery using agile and hybrid methods - platform vision, feasibility, technical blueprint, architecture, implementation, integration, testing, rollout and business adoption.
  • Built the engineering team from the ground up, leading teams across Switzerland, Bulgaria and India using Scrum and Kanban; established Jira, Confluence, Asana and SharePoint for delivery and reporting.
  • Established and managed frequent steering meetings, reporting that gave stakeholders transparency and drove key decision-making.
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Marco S.

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IT Interim Manager | Interim CIO | Transformation Lead | IT Project Manager & Program Manager | Digital Advisory Board Member

Grünwald
Marco S.

Last position:

IT Interim Manager & Digitalization Consultant at paarprojekt GmbH

  • Project management and consulting services with a focus on IT interim management: digitalization of corporate management, including processes and applications
  • Assessment of the entire IT infrastructure, including applications, core processes and contracts, including cost optimization
  • Evaluation and implementation of solutions to promote digitalization in the company in the areas of property management, CRM, invoice review and approval processes, smart metering, DMS and time tracking
  • Digitization of file folders and introduction of SharePoint and Microsoft Teams as central document and communication platforms
  • Design and delivery of an AI workshop, including the rollout of AI tools to increase efficiency and transparency in key business processes
  • Preparation of training materials and delivery of user training for newly introduced digital processes and solutions
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Peter G.

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Making complex transformations operational again. Clarity. Trust. Momentum. Delivery. IT Process Transformation |

Vienna
Peter G.

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Senior IT Project Manager at REWE Group

Datacenter audit and subsequent transformation program

  • Initial situation: Following a critical outage, the datacenter was considered the cause. A traditional audit was to be put out to tender.
  • My diagnosis: The technical architecture was not the core problem. The key issues were the incident, diagnosis, and recovery processes, as well as a lack of transparency regarding costs and dependencies.
  • Impact: The audit was implemented pragmatically in-house. The results and budget foundations became the basis for a multi-year international transformation program. I was then retained as the preferred candidate for a central transformation stream.
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Constantinos S.

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ERP Solution Architect | IT Programme Director | AI Enablement

Geneva
Constantinos S.

Last position:

Managing Director at PrimeLogic Advisory Sàrl

  • Partnering with organisations to manage complex IT programmes, architect and implement ERP solutions, and embed AI where it drives measurable performance gains.
  • ERP solution architecture and hands-on delivery across the full lifecycle (Oracle Cloud, Infor LN, Cegid, iValua)
  • Programme and delivery leadership in both Waterfall and Agile environments (SAFe / Scrum / Kanban) - governance, stakeholder management, and execution at scale
  • Comprehensive assessment of business processes, organizational maturity, and technology landscape to ensure successful ERP adoption and digital transformation initiatives
  • Current mandate: Oracle Cloud SCM implementation for a Big Four consultancy
  • Geneva-based; operating across Switzerland and the EU
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Amit S.

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Senior IT Project Manager | IT Transformation | Program & Delivery Management

Düsseldorf
Amit S.

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IT Project Manager – SAP S/4 HANA Delivery Consultant at CHG Meridian UK Limited

  • Managed the integrated SAP S/4HANA delivery plan for 12 BTS workstreams, including milestone, dependency, and governance management.
  • Coordinated end-to-end delivery across Business, IT, and Operations, focusing on execution, readiness, and issue resolution.
  • Responsible for RAID, test, cutover, and deployment management to ensure a successful go-live.
  • Implemented KPI tracking, status reporting, and PMO governance to provide transparent management of performance, risks, and escalations.
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Robert K.

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Senior IT Infrastructure Project & Transition Manager | Migrations, Cutover, Multi-Vendor Delivery in Regulated Environments

Breitenfurt bei Wien
Robert K.

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Enterprise Architecture and Overall Transition Lead — UK National Lottery, 4th Licence at Scientific Games International GmbH

Owned the end-to-end architecture and the transition for the fourth licence period of the UK National Lottery: a complete technology stack replacement delivered against a hard regulatory deadline. Produced the end-to-end high-level architecture that served as the delivery baseline for the replacement of all major IT service components including infrastructure

Target architecture across two geo-redundant UK data centres: multiple VMware ESX clusters, OpenShift, MS SQL Server clusters, Oracle Exadata, integrated with AWS-hosted components and a retailer WAN over VSAT, DSL and LTE

Business continuity concept and geo-redundant high availability design

Review and approval authority over all low-level designs, application and infrastructure: network security, Oracle RAC, VMware, OpenShift, SQL clustering, geo-redundancy

Designed and implemented full hardware and network separation between test environments and staging/production

SME for third-party security audits against CIS benchmarks and NIST standards: preparation, execution, findings analysis, remediation prioritisation

Delivered software deployment to 45,000 retail terminals with minimal downtime, plus data migration from the incumbent end-to-end landscape to the new architecture

Transitioned 45,000 POS terminals and 19 million online players on time with no critical incidents

Owned the integrated transition plan for the full replacement of the lottery technology stack: work packages, milestones, dependencies and critical path across parallel technical sub-projects

Central organisational interface between internal IT leads, technical workstream leads, multiple external vendors and client executive stakeholders

Planned and led migration and cutover of live, regulated national infrastructure, including 80+ bare metal servers running VMware ESX, Microsoft VMs across several Active Directory domains, Linux VMs, OpenShift on Linux, 2 SANs, 2 Oracle Exadata systems, AWS components and a retailer WAN

Ran 4 full cutover dress rehearsals ahead of the 2 major go-live releases

Governed all changes through the ITIL change process and CAB; ran risk, issue and escalation management with regular status reporting to the Program Director and client's CTO

Onboarded the internal cyber security team and acted as architecture SME in pre-deployment security audits for client and internal security teams, including prioritisation and remediation of findings

Joined the programme as Enterprise Architecture Lead from May to September 2022, gaining detailed knowledge of the target infrastructure before taking overall delivery responsibility; after go-live, supported the delivery teams through the warranty phase

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Vitaly P.

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IT Project Manager UCC

Zürich
Vitaly P.

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IT Project Manager UCC at Office for Informatics, Canton of Zurich

  • Collaboration with and deputizing for the service manager for UCC (product owner)
  • Interface management for UCC with other functionalities as part of the digital workplace
  • Control of infrastructure tests and rollout, monitoring dependencies with other sub-projects
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Ole H.

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Manager Post Merger Integration, AI & IT Transformation

Leipzig
Ole H.

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Senior IT Project Manager at Rail-Flow GmbH

The client operates a SaaS platform for managing rail and intermodal transport (Rail-Flow Transport Management Platform).

For two of its customers, it was looking for a 3-month project management replacement. Both customers offer rail and intermodal transport services. Implementation progress differs: one customer is already live and wanted its Phase 2 enhancements implemented; the other customer is implementing its MVP and entering an intensive testing phase.

As part of the assignment, project management was taken over, including management of the internal development team (offshore Turkey).

  • Took over complete project management for 2 customer projects, including the roles of Product Owner and Co-Scrum Master
  • Managed agile implementation teams consisting of business analysts, implementation consultants, developers (offshore) and QA staff
  • Ensured compliance with and further development of project governance
  • Planning and rollout management: creation and maintenance of project and rollout plans as well as coordination of role assignments with the client’s management
  • Requirements and change management: management of contractual requirements, bugs and changes
  • Customer and project communication: organization and moderation of status meetings and steering committees
  • Identification of project risks, initiation of countermeasures and escalation
  • Ensured correct and timely invoicing for project services together with Finance

Methods: Scheduling (forward- and backward-based), including milestone planning, structured interviews, multi-project management (in English)

Tools / Technologies: Jira, Confluence / Atlas, Claude (Skills, Artifacts), MS Outlook

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Christian T.

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Senior IT Project Manager Infrastructure | self-employed since 2006 | 28+ years of project experience

Vienna
Christian T.

Last position:

Project Management / Program Management at Energy company, AT

  • NIS2/IT-OT infrastructure project for network and firewall: PoC, roll-out, and blueprint
  • Coordination of IT, OT/operations, information security, business units, and external suppliers
  • Risk and escalation management
  • Direct evidence of security, multi-vendor delivery, and operational context.
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Philipp S.

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Business Information Systems Specialist (IT Consultant, IT PM, PMO, Portfolio Manager)

Zürich
Philipp S.

Last position:

Equity Portfolio Manager - Digital Wealth Management at Interactive Brokers LLC

  • Solely responsible for two portfolios totaling USD 1 million with an average monthly performance of 2%
  • Responsible for the investment strategy, specializing in US equities and ETFs (exchanges: NASDAQ and NYSE)
  • Market, trend, data, and technical chart analysis
  • Risk management – diversification, daily/weekly risk mitigation measures (rebalancing) to ensure optimal portfolio profitability
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Vadim R.

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Senior Product Owner & IT Project Manager | Mobile Banking · PSD2 · AI Product Development | 19M+ Users | Frankfurt · Remote

Frankfurt am Main
Vadim R.

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Independent AI Product Lab – Agentic Product Owner / Product Builder | R&D

  • Hands-on development of AI-native product prototypes with specialized AI agents for research, requirements, business logic, UX/flow design, test case generation and quality assurance.
  • Structured use and orchestration of AI agents through clearly defined roles, inputs/outputs and handover points; breaking down complex product tasks into verifiable work packages and iterative prototyping cycles.
  • Establishment of human-in-the-loop quality gates to validate AI-generated results for functional correctness, consistency, completeness and feasibility; targeted rework cycles in case of deviations.
  • Development of a regulatory GenAI/rules prototype for CRD VI with a structured decision flow, web UI, rule-based validation and automated test cases; iteration of the business logic through to a pilot-ready POC.
  • Design of an AI-to-Action banking prototype: AI intent → consent → bank/product logic → conversion including admin console; translating the product idea into MVP scope, role model, user flows and clickable prototypes.
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Jörg P.

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Product Owner, IT Project Manager and Business Analyst

Wien
Jörg P.

Last position:

Process Manager (70%) / Business Analyst (30%) at T-Mobile Austria GmbH (Magenta)

  • BSS system implementation for B2B / transformation of the central B2B system landscape
  • End-to-end business responsibility for defining, structuring and prioritizing key B2B business processes as part of a complex BSS transformation.
  • Work in an agile, SAFe-like setup with multiple teams involved, along with regular coordination with business, IT, solution design and architecture.
  • Translation of business requirements into implementable epics, features, user stories, process models and acceptance criteria as the basis for technical implementation.
  • Close collaboration with solution design and architecture to assess technical dependencies, interfaces, data flows and system impacts.
  • Management of target process design as the basis for implementation in Infonova BSS.
  • Interface management between business departments, IT, architecture, development and operational units, including facilitation of cross-functional workshops.
  • Ensuring process consistency, governance, decision-making capability and business acceptance as part of the system implementation.
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David B.

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External Project Manager in the Supply Chain Network

Zug
David B.

Last position:

External Project Manager in the Supply Chain Network at DEUTZ AG

  • Project management (SAP BN (Ariba) onboarding, support for SAP ECC and SAP TM for supplier topics)
  • Standardization of global value creation processes
  • Basic training as well as central contact person for suppliers and support for planners

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IT Project Manager statistics

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

23 years

IT Project Manager have 23 years of professional experience on average.

Position duration

5.3 years

IT Project Manager stay in a single position for 5.3 years on average.

Positions per freelancer

14

IT Project Manager have completed 14 positions on average over the course of their careers.

Top business areas

Information Technology, Project Management, Operations

IT Project Manager have gathered most of their hands-on project experience in Information Technology, Project Management, and Operations.

Top industries

Information Technology, Professional Services, Banking and Finance

IT Project Manager are most in demand in Information Technology, Professional Services, and Banking and Finance.

Certification focus areas

Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development

IT Project Manager earn their certifications most often in Project Management, Information Technology, and Product Development.

Bachelor's degree or higher

89%

89% of IT Project Manager hold at least a Bachelor's degree.

Master's degree or higher

62%

62% of IT Project Manager hold at least a Master's degree.

Doctorate

5%

5% of IT Project Manager have a doctorate (PhD).

Certifications per freelancer

4

IT Project Manager hold 4 professional certifications on average.

Most common languages

German, English, French

IT Project Manager most often speak German, English, and French.

Speak two or more languages

97%

97% of IT Project Manager speak two or more languages.

Based on our profile pool as of 30 Sep 2026.

Daily rate distribution

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1% of IT Project Manager charge less than €400 per day.
24% of IT Project Manager charge between €400 and €800 per day.
64% of IT Project Manager charge between €800 and €1200 per day.
11% of IT Project Manager charge €1200 or more per day.
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Average rates for IT Project Manager

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Daily rate avg. 894 €

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Median rate 880 €

The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.

Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 30 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.

IT Project Manager experts industry focus

See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.

  • Information Technology (92%)
  • Professional Services (59%)
  • Banking and Finance (49%)
  • Manufacturing (49%)
  • Automotive (46%)
  • Retail (34%)
  • Transportation (32%)
  • Energy (31%)

Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.

About the role

Delivery focus An IT Project Manager turns technical work into a plan the business can follow. They define scope, coordinate teams, manage risks, and keep delivery on track across software, infrastructure, data, and security projects.

  • Project planning and milestone control
  • Stakeholder communication and reporting
  • Risk, issue, and dependency management
  • Vendor and team coordination
  • Go-live preparation and handover

Typical work They are often brought in for ERP rollouts, cloud migrations, application upgrades, integration projects, and digital transformation work. A strong IT Project Manager can work with developers, architects, QA, operations, and business owners without losing sight of scope or priorities.

Core skills Good candidates combine structure with technical fluency. They should understand delivery methods, speak the language of engineers, and keep decisions moving when requirements change.

  • Agile delivery, Scrum, and Waterfall when needed
  • Planning tools such as Jira, MS Project, or similar software
  • Clear status updates and meeting facilitation
  • Budget, timeline, and dependency tracking
  • Change control and release coordination

When companies need one Companies hire freelance IT Project Managers when a project needs immediate leadership, when an internal manager is unavailable, or when extra capacity is needed for a time-limited initiative. They are also a good fit when a firm needs an interim project lead for a transformation, rescue project, or multi-vendor setup.

What strong professionals do A strong IT Project Manager does more than chase deadlines. They remove blockers early, make trade-offs visible, and keep both technical and non-technical people aligned. They know when to escalate, when to simplify, and how to keep delivery moving without creating noise.

Signs of the right fit

  • They can explain how they handled a complex IT rollout
  • They work well with engineers and business stakeholders
  • They show ownership of scope, quality, and timing
  • They stay calm when requirements shift
  • They can lead remote or hybrid project teams
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Frequently asked questions

Everything clients usually want to know about IT Project Manager, in one place.

An IT Project Manager leads the delivery of a defined technology initiative. They plan the work, coordinate the people involved, track risks and dependencies, and keep stakeholders informed. In practice, that can mean running a software rollout, a system migration, or an integration project from kickoff to handover.

A strong IT Project Manager needs project structure, technical understanding, and clear communication. They should be comfortable with Agile or Waterfall delivery, issue tracking, release planning, and stakeholder management. Just as important is the ability to keep different teams aligned when priorities change.

An IT Project Manager focuses on delivery: scope, schedule, risks, and coordination. A product manager usually owns the product vision and backlog priorities, while a program manager oversees several related projects at a higher level. If you need someone to make a specific IT initiative happen, the project role is usually the right one.

A freelance IT Project Manager is often the better choice when the need is tied to a specific rollout, migration, or recovery effort. It also works well if you need quick start-up, experienced delivery leadership, or temporary cover for an absent internal manager. That keeps your team moving without adding a long-term headcount decision.

Many IT Project Manager assignments can be handled remotely because the work is coordination-heavy. On-site time helps when the project involves workshops, go-live support, or a lot of stakeholder alignment in one location. The right setup depends on how much face-to-face decision-making the project needs.

A practical IT Project Manager is usually fluent in tools like Jira, MS Project, Confluence, or similar planning and tracking systems. They should also understand common delivery methods such as Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall, and know when each one fits. Tool names matter less than whether the person uses them to keep delivery clear and usable.

Look for evidence of control, not just confidence. A strong IT Project Manager can describe how they handled scope changes, escalations, stakeholder conflict, and a project that was under pressure. Ask for concrete examples of planning, risk management, and how they kept teams aligned through delivery.

Yes, if the person can translate between both sides. A good IT Project Manager can lead business-facing initiatives like process digitization and technical work like infrastructure upgrades or application migration. The key is whether they can keep the delivery plan grounded in how the teams actually work.

The average hourly rate for IT Project Manager is 112 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 894 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers working as IT Project Manager, 89% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 62% hold at least a Master's degree, and 5% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers working as IT Project Manager have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 5.3 years.

The most common languages among freelancers working as IT Project Manager are German (99%), English (98%), and French (19%).

The most common industries among freelancers working as IT Project Manager are Information Technology (92%), Professional Services (59%), and Banking and Finance (49%).

The most common business areas among freelancers working as IT Project Manager are Information Technology (99%), Project Management (98%), and Operations (66%).

FRATCH IT Project Manager main locations

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home all over Germany — available on-site in Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and every major business hub, or fully remote. Choose a city to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

Berlin Hamburg Munich Cologne Frankfurt Stuttgart Dusseldorf Leipzig Dortmund Essen Bremen Dresden Hanover Nuremberg

In Austria our freelancers and interim experts support companies from Vienna to Graz — on-site where your project needs them, or fully remote. Choose a city to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

Across Switzerland our specialists are active in Zurich, Geneva, Basel and Bern — working on-site or fully remote. Choose a city to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

Zurich Geneva Basel Bern

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