Management Consultant
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Jörg K.
Last position:
Exec. Coach / Consultant / Agilist at HASOMED GmbH
Repaired a broken “ScrumBan” process, then established a pure Kanban system; increased output in the Kanban flow by 22% within four weeks
Increased team autonomy and decision-making ability by implementing new decision strategies; resulting in up to 25% better outcomes
Redesigned retrospectives (including one-to-one coaching and workshops), which led to consistent implementation of the resulting action items
Intensive coaching of Product Owners (POs) to develop and support “Empowered Teams”, alongside leadership development to place agile frameworks and methods in a realistic context (“de-illusioning”)
Supported change management processes to promote an agile company culture among management and teams, improving internal communication to increase transparency and effectiveness in agile processes
Garrett T.
Last position:
Transformation Advisor for SAP at Garrett Tedeman, CPA LLC
Independent practice serving clients in SAC-P and AI-enabled FP&A transformation, including financial model development for PE firm engagements, data cleansing with PowerQuery, workflow automation Claude Cowork, SAC-P scoping task-based assignments (Micro1.ai & Mercor.ai), and SAP partner network development.
- 2026 – Completed significant upgrade training for Positioning Business AI and SAP Cloud ALM Workshop (In-Person). Live Demos • SAC-P & Excel-Based Reports • Claude Partner • SAP Partner#: 1961209 (OE – Build)
- 2025 – FP&A processes • Datasphere & Business Data Cloud • Team Workshops for AI • Toolchain & SAP Cloud ALM
- 2024 – Built key credentials on Deloitte S4 Experience • Group Reporting and SAC-P
Georgi S.
Last position:
Founder & Executive Advisor | Transformation, Governance & Interim Management at STOEV Enterprises
- Established and lead STOEV Enterprises as an independent management and strategic advisory firm
- Advisory focus on transformation, governance, organizational development, program management and interim management
- Structuring complex situations and developing clear decision-making foundations for management and leadership bodies
- Developing and further enhancing governance, organizational and operating models
- Executive sparring and management advisory on strategic, organizational and operational issues
- Managing and supporting complex transformation, change and implementation initiatives
- Supporting program and portfolio management, prioritization, roadmaps, risks, dependencies and management reporting
- Taking on interim management and leadership responsibilities to stabilize and further develop organizations and initiatives
- Combining a strategic management perspective with a pragmatic, execution-focused approach
- Focus on customer orientation, service excellence and alignment between management, business units, IT, customers and external partners
- Advisory services in IT transformation, IT governance, service & operations management, infrastructure and platform services, as well as sourcing and supplier governance
- Experience in complex, technology-driven and regulated organizations, as well as in the Swiss federal environment
Stefan O.
Last position:
Founder at ProtocolEngine.io
Evidence-led health intelligence platform turning published research into personal health protocols. It scores 430 habits, foods, and supplements against the studies behind them, and moves the score when the evidence moves. Built solo.
- Built the daily ingestion pipeline across PubMed, bioRxiv, and medRxiv: 43,000+ papers from 3,400+ journals processed into 230,000+ typed evidence claims, each one traceable back to the study it came from.
- Designed the six-factor evidence scoring model and the public changelog behind it, so no recommendation ever appears without the papers underneath it. 23,000+ grade changes recorded and explained to date.
- Shipped an entity information model connecting every intervention to its mechanisms, biomarkers, and outcomes: 118 biomarkers with region-specific reference ranges, 77 mechanisms, 32 graded outcomes.
- Built the personalisation layer: blood panel ingestion that reads lab PDFs with a vision model and corrects results for draw time against the user's wake anchor, plus Oura, WHOOP, and Withings integration for daily readiness context.
- Operate eleven specialised review agents over the corpus and codebase, covering paper curation, retrieval quality, health-claim compliance across EU and US regimes, and security.
- Shipped the Evidence Assistant, a RAG assistant that answers from the claim database and cites the underlying papers, plus a B2B practitioner tier, an Expo React Native app, and localisation across 3 languages and 7 markets.
Stack: Next.js 16, TypeScript, Supabase, pgvector, Anthropic Claude, Vercel, DeepInfra.
Lucas G.
Last position:
Self-Employed Management Consultant at nospia e.U.
Provided expert consultancy services to a range of clients, supporting their compliance and security objectives across multiple domains. Key projects and responsibilities included:
- Lead consultant for successful ISO 27001 certification projects, including readiness assessments and audit support
- Conducted comprehensive risk reviews and gap analyses to identify and remediate compliance and security vulnerabilities
- Developed, and improved internal and external policies, guidelines, and procedures related to information security and data protection
- Delivered tailored training sessions to employees on security best practices and data protection obligations
- Negotiated and drafted compliance-related contractual clauses, including DPAs and security-related provisions.
- Designed consent management strategies and ensured effective technical implementation of cookie banners in compliance with regulatory requirements
Marc P.
Last position:
Digital Strategy Consultant at EVO Creations
Retail AI Transformation:
- -------------------------- Led the transition of bespoke AI conversational models into a scalable, luxury-tier chatbot platform for Florentia Village (China), reducing operational costs to 20% while providing a multi-tenant solution for retail stakeholders, increasing revenue through AI-driven sales recommendations.
Consumer Tech Innovation:
- ----------------------------- Developed an AI real-time automation engine for Philips live-streaming, enabling automated Q&A and sentiment analysis to enhance high-pressure sales performance
Pharma Digital Strategy:
- -------------------------- Engagement lead, consultant and orchestration of Omnichannel transformation for Grünenthal across 14 countries, leading SteerCo meetings, managing financials + RAIDs + QRBs across 192 projects, liaising between C-Level (EU/US), Global Omnichannel head, Global Customer Excellence, Global Marketing Heads and Outsourcing hub (India), driving revenue to 160%.
Governance & RAID:
- ---------------------- Implemented rigorous project governance, plans, and RAID logs for high-pressure digital transformations, ensuring SteerCo visibility and cross-functional alignment across various engagements.
Product Manager (Conversational Analytics Platform):
- ---------------------------------------------------------- Led the end-to-end development of a state-of-the-art NLP-based analytics platform. Defined the product roadmap and user stories, and managed the engineering team from MVP to launch.
US-to-EU market entry:
- ------------------------- Directed the digital infrastructure for a major US-to-EU market entry, aligning global dev teams with European regulatory standards.
Peter J.
Last position:
external SPC & SAFe Trainer, Scrum Master at Siemens Energy
support SAFe adoption at team, ART and Portfolio level with consulting, coaching and training. Establish hierarchical enterprise backlog and Kanban Systems integrating portfolio, value stream and team level. Make e2e value stream flow across organisational boundaries visible and measurable. Teach "stop starting, start finishing" and Limit WiP.
Patrick J.
Last position:
Business Consultant at Patrick JOBST - Business Consulting & Internet Services
- Procrastination for beginners. The companion for your digital business model.
- Ultimate support for digital strategy, content marketing, search engine optimization, web development, social selling, online courses and consulting from one source.
- Sparring & mentoring for self-employed people, freelancers, entrepreneurs and coaches.
- Website & social media analysis.
Sebastiano G.
Last position:
Interim Manager & Strategic Advisor | Organization, People, Process & Digitalization at Sebastiano Guzzanti Solutions
- Strategic consulting: End-to-end optimization of SCM, processes, and structures based on 30 years of industry experience.
- Interim management: Leadership responsibility to bridge vacancies and stabilize teams during transformations.
- Transformation & Assets: Support for restructurings, asset utilization & brokerage (surplus assets), and digitalization (SAP S/4HANA).
Chris W.
Last position:
Senior Strategy Advisor, Transformation Lead – program realignment with target picture, governance, and priority steering at Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe | S-Communication Services
In-house consulting provider and driver of transformation within the group, multi-stakeholder environment and C-level.
Realignment and stabilization of a cross-functional transformation and scaling program within the group. Sharpening the target picture, priorities, and set of measures, as well as building reliable governance, planning, and steering structures. Structuring roles, responsibilities, and strategic initiatives while including AI and IT automation ideas.
Designed program realignment and project portfolio management
Developed strategy model and target picture for IT projects
Structured portfolio, roadmap, and priorities
Established governance and regular meetings
Worked out operating model for flagship projects
Assessed AI and automation ideas
Clarified roles and responsibilities
Implemented change measures
Developed, moderated, and evaluated workshops
Transformed 17 initiatives into a steering model
Increased transparency and decision-making ability
Strengthened commitment in steering
Sharpened the operating model structurally
Integrated three top-5 institutes
Involved over 80% of stakeholders
Governance
Portfolio steering (PPM)
Change management
Artificial intelligence
Workflow automation
AI use case assessment
Confluence
Jira
Stakeholder management
Christian P.
Last position:
Migration Lead for Accounting & Year-End Closing Tests at Raiffeisenverband Salzburg
- Project and test management for the accounting migration
- Coordination of resources
- Planning, creation and alignment of scenarios with functional experts and IT product owners
- Responsibility for accounting KPIs of the migration cockpit
- System environment: Jira, XRay, Confluence
Nadine B.
Last position:
Program Responsibility & Innovation at Industry
- Management of security and governance initiatives
- Development of SAP BTP as an innovation platform
- Trusted advisor to executive management
Boris H.
Last position:
Interim Head of Corporate Management & Transformation at HANSAINVEST (Signal Iduna Group)
Context: Business transformation - Establishment of a central Corporate Management & Transformation unit
- ▪ Established and provided interim leadership for the newly created Corporate Management & Transformation department
- ▪ Defined the target operating model as well as the tasks, responsibilities and governance structures of the new unit
- ▪ Established company-wide project portfolio management for transparent prioritization and management of strategic projects and initiatives
- ▪ Developed governance, decision-making and escalation processes for transformation and change initiatives
- ▪ Designed company-wide process management with an end-to-end process map, defined process ownership and consistent process governance
- ▪ Further developed standards and methods for project management, change management and organizational development
- ▪ Managed and supported strategic transformation, digitalization and organizational projects across the organization
- ▪ Established systematic benefits realization to measure and track the benefits of change initiatives
- ▪ Advised the management team on the prioritization, governance and organizational integration of company-wide change initiatives---
Pooja A.
Last position:
Marketing Strategy Consultant at ahlu-walia consulting
- Offering CMO-as-a-service & Executive Consulting to SMEs globally
- Increased conversion rate by 35% within 6 months through data-driven campaign optimisation for a client in the AI field
- Reduced average cost per acquisition by 40% for a SAAS client by introducing growth hacking methods
- Supporting clients with building 360-campaigns to grow their conversions, from managing agencies and video shoots to launching campaigns with a strong data-driven approach
Stefan U.
Last position:
Workstream Lead Solution Delivery / IT Operations Manager SAP S4/HANA Private Cloud Edition - RISE at Munich Re
- Lead Solution Delivery workstream
- Serve as IT Operations Manager ad interim
- Define, implement, and continuously optimize the Target Operating Model
- Design and implement incident and problem management processes
- Develop, maintain, and execute business continuity and disaster recovery plans, including DR testing
- Ensure system availability, performance, scalability, and compliance with SLAs
- Liaise between business stakeholders, SAP Basis teams, managed service providers, and cloud vendors
- Oversee incident, change, and problem management processes per ITIL best practices
- Lead service reviews and vendor performance evaluations
- Coordinate patching, upgrades, and enhancement cycles with SAP AG and application operations teams
- Monitor system health, performance, and security using SAP for Me
- Collaborate with IT security, infrastructure, and network teams to ensure system integrity
- Create, track, and manage project-related firewall requests
- Develop, coordinate, and deliver cutover activities for targeted system lines
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Management Consultant statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years

Position duration
3.8 years

Positions per freelancer
11

Top business areas
Project Management, Strategy, Operations

Top industries
Professional Services, Information Technology, Manufacturing

Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Human Resources
Bachelor's degree or higher
93%
Master's degree or higher
65%
Doctorate
12%

Certifications per freelancer
3

Most common languages
German, English, French

Speak two or more languages
95%
Based on our profile pool as of 10 Sep 2026.
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Management Consultant experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Professional Services (78%)
- Information Technology (61%)
- Manufacturing (45%)
- Banking and Finance (39%)
- Automotive (38%)
- Retail (27%)
- Education (27%)
- Healthcare (23%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the role
Navigating Corporate Transformation and Growth
A professional management consultant helps organizations improve their performance, solve complex business problems, and achieve sustainable growth. They analyze existing organizational structures, identify operational inefficiencies, and develop strategic blueprints to streamline workflows. By bringing an objective external perspective, they help leadership teams make informed decisions during times of transition, market expansion, or restructuring.
Core Competencies and Specializations
Experienced consultants bring a structured approach to problem-solving, backed by proven methodologies and frameworks. They possess deep expertise in translating high-level corporate goals into actionable project roadmaps across various business units.
- Corporate strategy development and market entry planning
- Business process reengineering and operational excellence
- Change management and post-merger integration
- Financial modeling, cost reduction, and performance benchmarking
- Agile transformation and organizational design
Why Companies Hire Freelance Advisors
Organizations typically bring in independent management consultants when they face critical bottlenecks, lack specialized internal expertise, or require an unbiased third-party assessment. Freelancers offer the advantage of rapid onboarding and highly targeted skills for time-sensitive projects, such as preparing for an acquisition or launching a major restructuring initiative, without the long-term overhead of permanent executives.
Tangible Business Outcomes
The success of an advisory engagement is measured by concrete results that drive long-term value. Rather than just offering advice, modern consultants deliver structured frameworks and execution plans that internal teams can easily adopt and maintain.
Typical deliverables include comprehensive organizational audits, financial feasibility studies, process optimization maps, stakeholder alignment workshops, and detailed change management playbooks designed to ensure seamless transition periods.
Frequently asked questions
Questions about Management Consultant? Start with the answers below.
A management consultant analyzes business workflows, interviews stakeholders, and reviews financial data to identify operational bottlenecks. They design strategic roadmaps, facilitate workshops, and work closely with leadership teams to implement organizational changes. Their daily tasks focus on translating complex corporate challenges into structured, actionable solutions.
While a strategy consultant focuses on high-level decisions such as market entry, mergers, and long-term positioning, an operational consultant looks at how the business executes those strategies. Operational specialists optimize supply chains, streamline internal processes, and improve daily workflows. Many senior professionals possess skills in both areas to bridge the gap between planning and execution.
Engaging an independent business consultant is ideal for projects requiring highly specialized expertise, hands-on execution, and direct communication without corporate overhead. Independent professionals integrate quickly into internal teams and offer unbiased advice tailored to your specific organizational culture. They are also more cost-effective for targeted, medium-term initiatives compared to traditional advisory agencies.
A top-tier management advisor is evaluated by their past project outcomes, industry-specific knowledge, and communication skills. Ask for case studies demonstrating how they solved similar organizational challenges and achieved measurable performance improvements. Strong candidates also demonstrate high emotional intelligence, which is critical for managing stakeholders during major business transitions.
The collaboration model for an interim manager or consultant depends on the project scope and organizational needs. Initial discovery phases, stakeholder interviews, and change management workshops usually benefit from on-site presence to build trust. Strategic planning, data analysis, and deliverable creation are often executed highly efficiently in a remote setup.
Virtually any sector undergoing rapid change benefits from hiring a business analyst or consultant, including manufacturing, healthcare, finance, and technology. They are especially valuable in highly regulated environments where operational efficiency and compliance must align. Companies facing sudden digital disruption or market shifts often use external advisors to accelerate adaptation.
Successful engagement with a freelance consultant requires clear executive sponsorship and early communication with internal teams. Define the consultant's scope of authority and project objectives transparently to prevent friction or resistance to change. Regular status updates and collaborative workshops ensure that internal stakeholders feel ownership over the new strategies being implemented.
The timeline for a strategic advisor varies depending on the complexity of the assignment. Diagnostic phases and initial strategic assessments can be completed in a few weeks, while large-scale operational transformations or restructuring projects may span several months. A well-defined project scope with clear milestones helps keep the timeline on track.
The average hourly rate for Management Consultant is 129 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 1,033 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as Management Consultant, 93% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 65% hold at least a Master's degree, and 12% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers working as Management Consultant have 23 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3.8 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as Management Consultant are German (100%), English (94%), and French (26%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as Management Consultant are Professional Services (78%), Information Technology (61%), and Manufacturing (45%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as Management Consultant are Project Management (83%), Strategy (82%), and Operations (64%).
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