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Edibe Ü.
Last position:
Fire Protection Site Supervisor and Authority Manager
Construction of a new pharmaceutical production site with around 14 buildings: production and fill-and-finish buildings, utility buildings with a supply tunnel, logistics warehouse with high-bay storage, laboratory, office and parking garages. EPCM structure with an international client.
Site Supervision and Construction Monitoring:
- Fire protection monitoring of work on site
- Quality assurance and defect management during construction
- Inspection of firestopping, building element connections and proof of suitability for use
- Developing compensatory measures where there are deviations
- Preparing for and supporting approvals
Inspections and Authority Management:
- Planning and managing fire protection approval processes with the authorities
- Organizing and coordinating inspections by inspection experts, TÜV and the fire department
- Preparing the fire protection inspection matrix and firestop register
- Documenting and tracking inspection reports
- Liaising with the general planner, building services engineering, structural engineering and contractors
Tamer D.
Last position:
Senior Project Manager / Senior IT Consultant at IT.Niedersachsen – Central Police Directorate (ZPD)
MOVE-ZPD – Strategic Infrastructure Project | Total Program Budget 48 Mio. € | Data Center Migration Hannover → Hamburg
Responsibility for a central subproject for migrating business-critical specialist applications to a highly available data center architecture.
- Management of a central subproject for migrating business-critical specialist applications to a highly available data center architecture.
- Independent management of around 30 of approximately 100 business-critical specialist applications, including Exchange (approx. 30'000 users), LDAP, DNS and cross-state applications.
- Management of project structure, milestones, dependencies, risks and escalations, as well as coordination of the required business and technical stakeholders.
- End-to-end coordination of the managed migrations, from planning and structuring through environment provision, testing and acceptance to production deployment and go-live.
- Stakeholder management between business units, Product Owners, data center operations, program organization and external service providers.
- Development and implementation of a standardized server request and change process to speed up VM provisioning and reduce manual coordination.
- Management reporting as well as preparation and moderation of steering and decision-making bodies and workshops.
Technologies & Tools: MS Project, MS Teams, SharePoint, Oracle APEX, CA Automation Manager, Visio, MindManager
Konstantinos T.
Last position:
Project Manager at Frankfurt School of Finance
- Management of IT/digitalization projects within the central PMO
- PMO knowledge document & management presentation (governance, methods)
- Requirements training & e-invoicing summary for project submitters
- Market analysis of hybrid tools & PMO checklists/governance
- Stakeholder management (IT, library, management)
Ingo L.
Last position:
Project Manager at Turkmenistan Airlines
Turkmenistan Airlines
EASA/TCO reauthorization, IOSA consulting, blacklisting
Christina R.
Last position:
Change and Project Manager at JEAN Greim GmbH & Co. KG
- Supporting the company succession process and coaching future managers.
- Transformation and support of the digital transformation (automated small-parts warehouse, introduction of a new warehouse management system and ERP system), process optimization, realignment, and reorganization of business activities.
Rüdiger L.
Last position:
Lecturer/Trainer at amontis consulting
- Lecturer/trainer on the topics “Project Management Basics”, “Quality Management in Projects”, “Business Administration for Project Managers” and “Project Management (according to PMI)” with Dr. Roland Dumont du Voitel, amontis consulting
Sören K.
Last position:
Epic-Owner at Telefonica Deutschland
#Coordination of the introduction of the new CCT platform in the RAITT project in the Customer Service area for the inbound channels Call/Email/Letter and Web/App.
- Design of the rights and roles concept in Phase 1 of the Salesforce product launch.
- Coordination with Enterprise and Solution Architects regarding future system interfaces (APIs, REST APIs).
- Close coordination with the affected business units and project teams across tribes. Support for the introduction of the new CCT platform in Sprinklr and its dependencies on RAITT for all inbound channels.
- Preparation and coordination of works council-related topics with HR and Application Owners.
- Creation and optimization of process flows for inbound feature-related business processes and their modeling. #Toolset: JIRA, Confluence, Camunda, Aris, Salesforce, SCRUM
Alfons G.
Last position:
Senior Migration Consultant / Technical Project Lead
Europe-wide re-platforming & centralization
- Independently created the migration concept and implementation plan for the Europe-wide centralization and consolidation of IT services for around 20 European companies as part of a re-platforming program.
- Migration assessment: analysis of the existing IT, infrastructure, application, and service landscapes of the companies as the basis for the migration strategy.
- Development of the centralized target vision and target architecture based on a modern technology stack, taking platform and containerization approaches into account.
- Design of a highly available central infrastructure in an active-active model across two data centers; consideration of cloud, infrastructure, application, CMDB, and IAM services.
- Development of the migration and transformation roadmap, including defining migration waves, dependencies, requirements, and priorities for the move from decentralized services to the central platform.
- Analysis of technical and organizational dependencies, identification of migration risks, and development of a structured approach for step-by-step migration and centralization.
- Creation of target, solution, and implementation views for each service domain; design of the end-to-end join-move-leave process as a blueprint for the European rollout (Jira/Jira Asset Management).
- Alignment of migration strategy and roadmap with European companies, management, IT, providers, and other stakeholders; presentation of the 12-month roadmap to the Managing Director Europe.
Mike M.
Last position:
Australia (Living & working abroad) at Australia (Living & working abroad)
- Project-based work in marketing automation, process optimization, and content.
- On-site operational assignments in fully English-speaking teams.
- Focus on self-organized work, changing locations, quick onboarding, and a high level of personal responsibility.
- Remote projects for Spartan Race Australia & DMC Europe, among others.
Thomas H.
Last position:
Project Manager & Senior Business Analyst at HSBC INKA
KVG Carve-Out – Project Manager for the Compliance, Legal, Front Office & Audit workstream
- Managed the workstream’s project management, including planning, tracking, dependency management and decision preparation
- Structured the target process landscape following the carve-out; facilitated workshops to define roles and interfaces with Compliance, Legal, Front Office and Audit
- Created policies & guidelines for investment processes; ensured audit-compliant documentation and coordinated cross-functional stakeholders
- Coordinated dependencies and deliverables between workstreams; reported to the project leadership and SteerCo
Matthias V.
Last position:
Freelance IT Consultant at Freelance IT Consultant
Mario P.
Last position:
Senior IT Project Manager / Program Lead – Network Strategy 2030 at ALDB GmbH
- Holistic responsibility for modernizing and expanding federal networks and upgrading critical data center and telecom infrastructure in the high-security agency environment of BDBOS
- Planning and management of the expansion of national BOS network infrastructure in the VS-NfD/KRITIS environment with technical decision authority at the architecture and component level (Cisco, Layer 2/3, WAN redundancy)
- Planning, tendering (EVB-IT/UVgO) and oversight of the upgrade of security-critical telecom infrastructure for emergency call 110/112 (ACD)
- Capacity planning, rack integration, structured cabling, power supply, cooling concept (CRAC/In-Row) and DCIM monitoring for data center expansion
- Building the IT department from scratch: structures, governance, processes, team recruiting, vendor selection and long-term IT strategy
- Planning and managing infrastructure and application migrations: migration strategies, batch planning, hypercare stabilization and rollback concepts
- Creating vendor-neutral specifications (telecom systems, signature solutions) according to EVB-IT and UVgO; contract award and vendor management
- Setting up a secure IT environment according to BSI basic protection, ISO 27001 and VS-NfD; developing IT security concepts and CMDB analyses
- Hands-on program leadership: decision papers for management and steering committees, risk management, reporting and change request control
Christopher Z.
Last position:
IT Product Manager / Product Owner at Leading German financial services provider
Banking & Invest – Replacement of digital application journeys
Shared product responsibility for the digital application journeys (accounts, investment accounts, home financing) of a large financial services provider working with three partner banks – from the prioritized backlog and partner bank integrations to regulatory requirements (WpHG, ESMA, BFSG); contributed to the introduction of MS Copilot and AI use cases.
Result: Continued to develop the platform reliably across around 30 releases over 2.5 years; launched two new partner processes and met regulatory deadlines.
Arslan S.
Last position:
Project Manager at Internal Project
- Carried out an internal strategy project to further develop market positioning and service portfolio
- Analyzed existing business models and identified optimization potential in offer structure, methodology, and customer approach
- Further developed standardized consulting and project methods for consistent and scalable service delivery
- Designed and prepared proposal documents and supported the preparation of project-related tenders
- Expanded and maintained existing customer and partner relationships and monitored the market to identify new business areas
- Optimized internal processes in project organization, reporting, and quality standards
Zafer T.
Last position:
Senior Project Manager at RLB / Stack Infrastructure
- Datacenter Senior project lead for the preconstruction phase of a Data Center Development project for an Hyperscaler.
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Project Managers statistics
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
23 years
Position duration
2.3 years (Germany: 5.3 years)
Positions per freelancer
15 (Germany: 14)
Top business areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Operations
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Professional Services
Certification focus areas
Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development
Bachelor's degree or higher
92% (Germany: 87%)
Master's degree or higher
52% (Germany: 56%)
Doctorate
4% (Germany: 8%)
Certifications per freelancer
4 (Germany: 3)
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
98% (Germany: 96%)
Based on our profile pool as of 11 Nov 2026.
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Project Managers 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 (70%)
- Banking and Finance (59%)
- Professional Services (55%)
- Manufacturing (43%)
- Automotive (38%)
- Government and Administration (35%)
- Transportation (34%)
- Telecommunication (33%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the role
Delivery control
A project manager keeps work moving from kickoff to handover. They turn goals into plans, align stakeholders, track dependencies, and remove blockers before they slow delivery. In freelance setups, they often step in for a single initiative, a missing lead, or a busy internal team.
Typical outputs
- Project plan with milestones, scope, and responsibilities
- Steering updates for management and stakeholders
- Risk and issue log with clear owners
- Status reporting that shows progress, delays, and next actions
- Handover documentation and lessons learned
Skills and methods
Strong project managers combine structure with calm communication. They know how to run meetings, keep decisions documented, and manage trade-offs without losing momentum. Common methods include classic waterfall planning, hybrid delivery, and agile coordination when the team works in sprints. They should also handle tools such as Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Monday.com, Trello, Excel, and PowerPoint with confidence.
When companies hire
Companies usually bring in a freelance project manager when a launch is time-sensitive, an internal lead is absent, or a transformation needs an experienced operator fast. In Frankfurt, this is common in finance, consulting, logistics, and enterprise IT, where many teams need a reliable project lead who can work with both local and international stakeholders. On-site workshops may matter at the start, but day-to-day coordination is often hybrid or remote.
What good looks like
A strong project manager is visible without creating noise. They know what matters, surface problems early, and keep decisions moving. Look for clear reporting, firm scope control, realistic planning, and the ability to work with executives, specialists, and vendors without losing the thread.
Related roles
Searches for this role often include project lead, program manager, and PM. The titles are not always identical, so the scope matters: a program manager usually handles several linked projects, while a project lead may focus on delivery within one workstream. For freelance work, the right profile is the one that fits the actual coordination load and decision level.
Frequently asked questions
The facts hiring teams ask for most often when it comes to Project Managers.
A project manager turns a goal into a workable delivery plan and keeps it on track. That includes scope, timeline, stakeholder alignment, risk handling, and regular status reporting. In freelance work, the focus is often on getting a project back under control or driving a critical initiative from start to finish.
A freelance project manager makes sense when the need is immediate, the project is temporary, or the internal team lacks capacity. It is also a good option when you need experience for a specific setup, such as a system rollout, restructuring, or cross-functional coordination. If the work is tied to a clear delivery window, a freelancer is often the faster fit.
Look for strong planning, stakeholder management, and risk control. A good project manager should be able to run meetings, document decisions, and keep multiple workstreams aligned without losing pace. Tool fluency matters too, especially with Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Excel, or similar systems your team already uses.
The project manager usually owns one project and is accountable for its scope, timing, and delivery. A program manager handles several connected projects and looks at the bigger picture, while a project lead may focus more on day-to-day task coordination within one team. The right title depends on how broad the responsibility really is.
Frankfurt often brings together finance, consulting, logistics, and enterprise IT projects, so coordination can involve many stakeholders and strict internal processes. A project manager in this environment may support migrations, business change, vendor coordination, or rollout work across local and international teams. German and English communication can both be important, depending on the client setup.
A project manager can usually handle reporting, planning, and stakeholder follow-up remotely. On-site time helps when workshops, steering meetings, or sensitive alignment are needed, especially at the start of a project. Many companies use a hybrid model: remote for delivery control, on-site for key decisions.
Ask for examples of projects they have led, the problems they solved, and the way they handled scope changes or delays. A strong project manager explains decisions clearly, shows structured thinking, and gives realistic plans instead of vague promises. Good signs are precise documentation, calm communication, and control over dependencies and risks.
Freelance project manager roles usually need fast onboarding and clear communication with multiple stakeholders. Be ready to work with existing tools, adapt to the client’s reporting style, and define decision points early. In Frankfurt, being comfortable with business English and, in some teams, German, can make collaboration much smoother.
The average hourly rate for Project Managers in Frankfurt is 111 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 886 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers working as Project Managers in Frankfurt, 92% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 52% hold at least a Master's degree, and 4% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers working as Project Managers in Frankfurt have 23 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 Frankfurt are German (100%), English (98%), and Spanish (24%).
The most common industries among freelancers working as Project Managers in Frankfurt are Information Technology (70%), Banking and Finance (59%), and Professional Services (55%).
The most common business areas among freelancers working as Project Managers in Frankfurt are Project Management (99%), Information Technology (87%), and Operations (68%).
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