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Bring in project managers for launch planning, stakeholder coordination, budget control, risk management, and delivery across IT, operations, and transformation work. Get fast, precise matching with vetted, available freelancers.

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.

Meet FRATCH Project Managers

Vadim Romanenko

Vadim Romanenko

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

Frankfurt am Main

Last position:

Senior Business Analyst – Digital Products & Risk at Deutsche Landesbank

  • Analysis, structuring, and prioritization of complex business and stakeholder requirements for a business-critical limit and risk system.
  • Translation of business requirements into backlog items, user stories, acceptance criteria, and end-to-end scenarios.
  • Facilitation of structured workshops and refinements with business, development, and QA to clarify complex issues and derive actionable product and system requirements.
  • Optimization of requirements, testing, and quality processes, including automation, data quality, and CI/CD-related workflows.
  • Discovery and evaluation of AI/GenAI use cases in terms of user and business value, data basis, feasibility, and potential capability impact.
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Ornel Franck Wora Yeno

Ornel Franck Wora Yeno

Purchasing Manager, Logistics, IT Manager & Software Architect

Frankfurt am Main

Last position:

Purchasing Manager, Logistics & IT Manager at Onlinehandler

  • Proactive support of management in business field development & innovation management

  • New development of a suite of business applications for analyzing valuation, P&L, and market price risk data

  • Automation of all internal and external business and work processes

  • Development of AI-based and AI-supported ETL processes as well as data analysis

  • Business use-case development

  • Business and work process optimization

  • Enterprise architecture management

  • Sales data analysis and forecasting as well as capture

  • Inventory management & reordering

  • Supplier management and communication

  • Customs processing & clearance

  • Shipping handling & warehouse coordination

  • Interface management

  • Technologies used: Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Teams, JTL-Wawi, JTL-WMS, OTTO Partner Connect (OPC), Amazon Seller Central, DHL Global Forwarding, Jira, Draw.IO, Java (8,17,21,25), Jenkins, SonarQube, Git, Gitea, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, Vaadin, H2, PostgreSQL, Docker, Local LLMs, Postman, JasperSoft Studio, JasperReports

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Sebastian Zwiesler

Sebastian Zwiesler

Project Manager & Business Consultant AI & CX

Frankfurt am Main

Last position:

CRM Consultant at Adevinta / kleinanzeigen.de

  • Goal: Development and optimization of loyalty and CRM measures for a leading e-commerce platform
  • Solution: Identification of promising users, increase in engagement, and long-term retention to drive revenue growth
  • Definition of local CRM direct communication for specific segments
  • Translation of research insights into actionable recommendations
  • Planning and implementation of CRM campaigns in close collaboration with marketing and product teams
  • Identification of optimization potential in direct communication
  • Collaboration with external agencies on creative solutions, prototyping, and UAT
  • Measurement and reporting of key KPIs
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Joachim Auster

Joachim Auster

Project Manager HubSpot, Tracking + Analytics Expert

Frankfurt am Main

Last position:

Project Manager HubSpot, Tracking + Analytics Expert at Swiss Post

  • Create a tracking concept for Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics including data layer, events, triggers, and reporting
  • Manage the project team (developers, designers, performance specialists)
  • Serve as communication interface between stakeholders and digital departments
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Gregor Pestsov

Gregor Pestsov

Engineering Data Management Project Manager

Frankfurt am Main

Last position:

Engineering Data Management Project Manager

Technical and commercial risk assessment for an investment project in the hardware sector (scaling potential, liability risks, operational processes) Process consulting for two SMEs in the engineering environment, focusing on workflow digitization, PLM

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Thomas Hühne

Thomas Hühne

Project Manager | M&A & Regulatory

Frankfurt

Last position:

Project Manager & Senior Business Analyst at HSBC INKA

KVG Carve-Out – Project Manager for Workstream Compliance, Legal, Front Office & Audit

  • Responsible for project management of the workstream incl. planning, tracking, dependency management, and decision preparation
  • Structured the target process landscape after 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-ready documentation and coordinated cross-functional stakeholders
  • Coordinated dependencies and deliveries between workstreams; reported to project lead and SteerCo
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Mike Mandelc

Mike Mandelc

Digital Marketing & Project Management

Frankfurt

Last position:

Marketing & Project Manager at DMC Europe

  • Took over the entire marketing area incl. strategy, funnel optimization, and market analysis.
  • Managed all communication channels (social media, email, customer communication) with a focus on strengthening the brand and improving lead quality.
  • Developed data-based measures for competitive positioning and customer retention.
  • Interface to sales & USA team; clear operational responsibility in a technical-industrial environment.
  • Implemented structured work processes (MS Planner) and optimized cross-team workflows based on agile methods.
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Mario Pucko

Mario Pucko

Senior IT Project Manager / Program Lead – Network Strategy 2030

Frankfurt am Main

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
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Robert Francia

Robert Francia

Interim Project Manager

Kriftel

Last position:

Interim Project Manager at IT services company of a regional energy supplier

  • Delivery of various end-customer projects in server and network infrastructure on time, in quality, and within budget.
  • Project 1: Firewall renewal, replacement of an ASA firewall with a Fortinet firewall at an automotive supplier.
  • Project 2: Migration of file services from dedicated servers at 5 branch locations into a central managed file service, including DHCP, directory, and print services, as well as decommissioning of the old domain controllers.
  • Project 3: Renewal of the network infrastructure at the headquarters and branch locations of a logistics company and transition of the LAN, WLAN, and firewall environments into a managed network service.
  • Project 4: Network renewal, replacement of the core and access switches at the headquarters of a medical technology company and transition into a managed network service.
  • Project 5: Firewall renewal, replacement of an ASA firewall with a Fortinet firewall for a city.
  • Environment: ASA and Fortinet firewalls, Cisco network components, ITSM Heat/Ivanti, Confluence.
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Matthias Vösgen

Matthias Vösgen

Freelance IT Project Manager

Hattersheim am Main

Last position:

Freelance IT Consultant at Freelance IT Consultant

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Thomas Kastell

Thomas Kastell

Project Manager

Frankfurt

Last position:

Project Manager at OGL Food Trade

Part of a company-wide SAP S/4Hana cloud migration program including 6 implementation teams migrating the whole business process landscape from on premise into the cloud. Managing of two project teams on data migration and creation of business cockpits for pricing and logistics. Conducting two workshops to define the data migration approach and the Kanban working mode. Setting up release and deployment plans. Conducting stakeholder management and management reporting. Setting up the full project structure in Jira and sharepoint.

Key Contributions:

  • Conducting two scoping workshops on the data migration approach for business partner and materials incl the full project plan definition and the pricing and logistics cockpits
  • Coaching of one development and one data migration team consisting of 5 developers, SAP consultants and several business key user by adapting Scrum and Kanban frameworks
  • Managing three external services provider consisting of different SAP consultants and developer incl budget and ressource allocation management
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Andreas Flegel

Andreas Flegel

CRM Consultant, BI Expert, Project Manager, Coach

Wehrheim

Last position:

CRM Consultant, BI Expert, Project Manager, Coach at start-up / dermatology and wellness products

  • Analyze business situation: stagnation of sales, small recurring customer rate, huge number of visitors but little conversion rate, average order value does not increase, no customer segmentation or targeting, performance marketing approach fails to acquire the right customer
  • Advise on sales and marketing strategies and improve operations; agile coach advice with key business strategy using Scrum and Kanban
  • Acquire key requirements and derive user stories for e-shop product owner development and customer data analysis
  • Develop comprehensive 360 degree customer data model using Shopify and Amazon; implement data feeds from more than 10 systems (Klaviyo, Typeform)
  • Develop meaningful ad-hoc data analysis detailing aspects of Triple Whale customer behavior using standard e-commerce KPIs such as AOV, Google Analytics, churn, conversion and abandoned checkout rates, ROAS, CPA, CPC; tools: SQL, Power Query
  • Derive clear and data-driven customer segmentation and targeting; ETL processes and Power BI
  • Introduce and feed new content agency with customer insights using GraphQL and Postman; improve messages, frequency, and targeted audience; Microsoft Planner
  • Provide crystal clear data proof to steer new performance marketing approach
  • Develop standard business operations reporting
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Gregor Schibblock

Gregor Schibblock

Senior Project Manager

Bad Soden

Last position:

Senior Project Manager at DEKA NXT

  • Brand design and execution across all event areas at Kap Europa for the DekaBank Future Conference
  • Production management and logistics
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Zafer Trak

Zafer Trak

Senior Project Manager

Frankfurt am Main

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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Hüseyin Özcan

Hüseyin Özcan

Freelance Technical Project Manager

Langen (Hessen)

Last position:

Freelance Technical Project Manager at Karl Hess GmbH & Co. KG

  • Project management for Porsche interior plastic parts
  • Ensuring a complete and smooth flow of information between the customer and internal departments
  • Creation and monitoring of resource, schedule, and overall project plans
  • Active support and independent customer handling
  • Coordination of technical discussions and pricing meetings
  • Organization, execution, and documentation of alignment meetings with development and controlling
  • Handling of quotations with cost specs, analyses, and presentations
  • Independent cost negotiations, change handling, and final negotiations
  • Carrying out deviation analyses
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Project Managers statistics

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

22 years

Position duration

2.4 years

Positions per freelancer

15

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

91%

Master's degree or higher

45%

Doctorate

5%

Certifications per freelancer

4

Most common languages

German, English, Spanish

Speak two or more languages

98%

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Daily rate avg. 894 €

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Median rate 880 €

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Frequently Asked Questions

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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 112 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 894 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers working as Project Managers in Frankfurt, 91% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 45% hold at least a Master's degree, and 5% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers working as Project Managers in Frankfurt have 22 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.4 years.

The most common languages among freelancers working as Project Managers in Frankfurt are German (100%), English (98%), and Spanish (22%).

The most common industries among freelancers working as Project Managers in Frankfurt are Information Technology (72%), Banking and Finance (58%), and Professional Services (57%).

The most common business areas among freelancers working as Project Managers in Frankfurt are Project Management (99%), Information Technology (84%), and Operations (70%).

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