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About the role
Delivery control
A strong project manager turns a messy brief into a clear plan. They define scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, and decision points. On freelance assignments, they often step in to stabilize delivery, recover slipping timelines, or lead a project when internal teams are already at capacity.
- Project plan and milestone structure
- Stakeholder mapping and meeting cadence
- Risk, issue, and change control
- Status reporting for leadership and teams
What they run
Project managers handle the day-to-day coordination that keeps work moving. They align business owners, IT, operations, vendors, and external specialists. Common assignments include software rollouts, process improvement, ERP projects, marketing launches, office moves, and cross-functional transformation programs.
In Dortmund, they are often brought in by industrial companies, mid-sized firms, logistics teams, and service organizations that need clear coordination between site teams and remote experts.
Skills that matter
The best project managers are structured, calm, and direct. They know how to translate goals into tasks, keep meetings useful, and surface problems early. They are also good at asking the right questions when the scope is unclear.
- Planning, prioritization, and dependency management
- Stakeholder communication at different levels
- Budget and timeline tracking
- Conflict resolution and escalation handling
- Tools such as Jira, MS Project, Confluence, Asana, or Monday.com
When to bring one in
Freelance project managers make sense when a project has a clear start and end, when a permanent hire would take too long, or when you need senior coordination without adding headcount. They are also useful during transitions, urgent recoveries, and projects that need outside structure.
A contractor can start quickly, focus on delivery, and leave clean documentation behind for the next owner. That is useful when internal managers are overloaded or when several departments need one neutral lead.
What good looks like
A strong project manager does more than chase deadlines. They create order, keep people aligned, and make decisions visible. They know when to escalate, when to simplify, and when to push back on scope creep.
Look for clear communication, crisp documentation, and a practical approach to delivery. In German-speaking teams, especially around Dortmund, it also helps if they can work well in both English and German when the project crosses functions or suppliers.
Common fit questions
Not every assignment needs a full program lead. Sometimes the right profile is a project manager, sometimes a PMO lead, and sometimes a delivery manager. The right choice depends on whether you need hands-on coordination, governance, or broader program steering.
For companies, the key is to define the real problem: planning, rescue, communication, or control. For freelancers, the best projects are the ones where responsibilities, decisions, and reporting lines are clear from the start.
Meet FRATCH Project Managers
Nazrin Alili
Junior Marketing Project Manager
Last position:
Junior Marketing Project Manager at Eingenetzt Marketing Agentur
- Planning and executing integrated 360° marketing campaigns for mid-sized B2B clients
- Stakeholder management with internal teams, industry partners, and external agencies
- KPI-based performance reporting and deriving optimization measures
- Managing SEA budgets; keyword research and competitor analysis (ahrefs, Google Search Console)
- Scheduling and deadline management across multiple parallel client projects
- Tools: Google Ads, Google Search Console, ahrefs, WordPress, Trello, Canva, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini
Alexander Königschulte
Subproject Manager IT Migration (Carve-out)
Last position:
Subproject Manager IT Migration (Carve-out) at EWE / WCG
- Carve-out of Wärme+ customers from EWE to the new company WCG with around 24,000 metering points.
- Development of a migration approach, data migration, process redesign and migration.
- Management of service providers, reporting to the steering committee and executive management.
- Tools: Jira, SharePoint, Draw.io, SAP S/4, SAP PM, WILKEN (ENER:GY, P5), carve-out.
Sven Rösner
Project Manager for Major Contracts on Temporary Assignment
Last position:
Project Manager for Large Contracts on Temporary Assignment at Atlas Titan GmbH / ENGIE Deutschland GmbH
- Conducting concept and design planning in the acquisition phase (energy generation, e.g. BESS and industrial plants under EPC contracts)
- Serving as the link for all communication with sales, customers, suppliers, and branch offices
- Estimating costs and setting budgets for industrial plants (hot gas generators, battery storage, hydropower plants, etc.) with CAPEX up to €100M
Burkhard Brühmann
Interim Project Manager for Company-wide ERP Migration
Last position:
Interim Project Manager for Company-wide ERP Migration at Logistics provider, Iserlohn
- Responsible for the entire migration
- Process mapping across the whole company
- Stakeholder management
- Leading the project team, key users and end users
- Change management
Oliver Michels
Interim Project Manager Automation / PRINCE2 Practitioner
Last position:
Interim Project Manager Automation / PRINCE2 Practitioner at Secure-Partner
- Automotive SPICE (ASPICE)
- Cybersecurity
- automation project management
- operational project execution
- requirements alignment with customers and stakeholders
- planning requirements for modernization
- time and resource planning
Joshua Haas
Freelancer – Project Manager
Last position:
Freelancer – Project Manager at TEDI GmbH & Co. KG
- Led the Email Distribution Restructuring project to reorganize over 600 email distribution lists and mailboxes for a multinational company, aiming to improve the efficiency and scalability of internal communications.
- Conducted a comprehensive analysis of existing distribution lists to identify inefficiencies and redundancies, and defined clear naming conventions and standardized processes.
- Oversaw the cleanup of outdated and unnecessary distribution lists in line with new guidelines.
- Collaborated with the IT department to evaluate and implement automation solutions for dynamically updating distribution lists.
- Implemented a pilot phase to validate new processes, gather feedback, and refine the approach for a company-wide rollout.
- Defined responsibilities for maintaining and monitoring distribution lists and assigned them to specific roles.
- Created detailed project documentation and regular reports for management and other stakeholders.
Axel Kurz
Project Manager
Last position:
Project Manager
- ERP selection project at an automotive supplier in Regensburg to choose a successor system for a custom legacy solution
- Conducting interviews with specialist departments
- Creating a criteria catalog
- Organizing and facilitating workshops
Stefan Rest
Senior Product Owner
Last position:
Senior Product Owner at Bosch & ETAS Automotive
- Product Owner for Digital Delivery team
- Company-wide digitalization project for software deliveries
- Technologies: SAP EMS, JFrog, Revenera
- Conducting PI Plannings
Stefanie Dörmann
Finance Manager (Interim)
Last position:
Finance Manager (Interim) at GERRY WEBER International AG
- Support and harmonization of the O2C process
- Management of trouble shooting
- Preparation for the ERP switch from SAP R3 to Microsoft D365
Carlos Barbancho Galindo
Task Force Project Management - Prototype Procurement E-Mobility
Last position:
Task Force Project Manager - Prototype Procurement E-Mobility at R.Bosch GmbH
Hasan Kocer
Customer Project Manager
Last position:
Customer Project Manager at Nokia Networks
- Orange France - APEX
- Network APIs testing, NEF deployment on AWS (SaaS)
- Network APIs testing via NEF deployment on fCaaS (Orange Cloud, OTC)
- Orange Moldova Cloud SDM and IMS swap project
- Telenor SCIP cloudification project (case solution management with R&D)
Tony Peter Heinrich
Senior Business Analyst | IT Project Manager | Test Manager
Last position:
Business Analyst SAP FS-CD
After a successful soft launch of a new policy administration system, the project aims to fully integrate it with SAP FS-CD. The focus is on ensuring the processing of policy data from the legacy system and the new administration system in FS-CD, while optimizing process workflows.
- Analysis and functional design of business processes in the context of dunning, connection to court dunning, direct debit and payout returns, as well as short-term license plates in FS-CD
- Aligning and developing requirements with the relevant business units
- Creating process models for dunning, returns, seasonal, and short-term license plate processes using BPMN
- Drafting customizing proposals and analyzing the relevant timing in FS-CD
- Coordinating with the development team for implementation and jointly developing efficient solution concepts
- Capturing and documenting requirements and optimizing existing workflows in JIRA and Confluence
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Project Managers statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
22 years
Position duration
2.3 years
Positions per freelancer
13
Top business areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development
Top industries
Professional Services, Manufacturing, Information Technology
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Operations, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
78%
Master's degree or higher
22%
Certifications per freelancer
2
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
100%
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Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Frequently Asked Questions
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A top-tier Project Manager sets up the plan, coordinates people, tracks risks, and keeps delivery on track. They make sure scope, deadlines, and responsibilities stay clear as work moves across teams, vendors, and departments.
Look for strong planning, stakeholder management, and calm communication under pressure. A good Project Manager also knows how to document decisions, handle change requests, and use tools such as Jira, MS Project, or Asana without creating more admin than needed.
A Project Manager focuses on one defined initiative and its day-to-day execution. A PMO lead usually shapes governance and reporting standards across many projects, while a program manager steers several related projects toward a broader business goal.
A freelancer is often the better choice when the work has a clear scope, an urgent start, or a limited duration. It also helps when your internal team needs experienced coordination right away and you do not want to wait for a long hiring process.
In Dortmund, Project Managers are often brought in for industrial, logistics, IT, and operational change work. That can include system rollouts, process redesign, site coordination, or projects that need tight alignment between local teams and remote specialists.
Many project tasks can be handled remotely, especially planning, reporting, and stakeholder coordination. On-site presence helps when the project involves workshops, production areas, office moves, or situations where fast decisions depend on close contact with local teams.
Ask for examples that show how the Project Manager handled scope changes, delays, or conflicting stakeholders. Strong candidates speak clearly about what they delivered, how they kept people aligned, and what they changed when the plan stopped working.
A project manager should confirm the real goal, the decision makers, the reporting line, and the tools already in use. It also helps to know whether the role is pure coordination, delivery ownership, or recovery work, because each one needs a different setup.
The average hourly rate for Project Managers in Dortmund is 134 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 1,075 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as Project Managers in Dortmund, 78% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 22% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers working as Project Managers in Dortmund have 22 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers working as Project Managers in Dortmund are German (100%), English (100%), and Spanish (33%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as Project Managers in Dortmund are Professional Services (75%), Manufacturing (67%), and Information Technology (58%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as Project Managers in Dortmund are Project Management (100%), Information Technology (67%), and Product Development (67%).
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Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.
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