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Bring in specialists for operating model redesign, ERP and process transformation, and cross-functional change programs. Get fast, precise matching with vetted, available freelancers who can lead delivery and keep stakeholders aligned.

About the role

What they do

Transformation Managers turn strategy into execution. They align people, process, and technology across complex change programs. Common work includes business transformation, operating model redesign, process improvement, and rollout support in companies that need momentum without adding a permanent layer.

  • Define scope, roadmap, and workstreams
  • Align executives, line managers, and project teams
  • Track risks, dependencies, and decisions
  • Keep delivery focused on business outcomes

Core skills

A strong Transformation Manager combines structure with influence. They need solid program management skills, clear communication, and a practical view of how change lands in day-to-day operations. Many clients also look for experience as a change manager, transformation lead, or program manager when the work spans several functions.

  • Leading workshops and steering meetings
  • Building business cases and transformation plans
  • Managing stakeholders across business and IT
  • Translating strategy into concrete next steps

Tools and methods

The right freelancer knows how to work with plans, action logs, governance routines, and reporting packs. Depending on the setup, they may also support OKRs, lean improvement work, target operating model design, or ERP-related transformation such as SAP programs. In Germany, they are often expected to work comfortably with both local teams and international stakeholders.

When to hire one

Companies bring in a freelance Transformation Manager when a change effort needs pace, neutrality, or extra capacity. This is common during reorganizations, mergers, system rollouts, process standardization, and leadership transitions. Freelance support also helps when an internal team knows the target state but lacks someone to drive the program every day.

What strong experts look like

Strong professionals do more than follow a plan. They spot friction early, push decisions through, and keep teams moving when priorities shift. Look for someone who can connect strategy with delivery, handle resistance without drama, and produce clear outputs that leaders can act on.

Typical deliverables

  • Transformation roadmap and milestone plan
  • Stakeholder map and communication cadence
  • Governance setup with roles and decision points
  • Status reports, risk logs, and escalation notes
  • Change story and rollout support materials
  • Handover documentation for internal teams

Meet FRATCH Transformation Managers

Marco Steidel

Marco Steidel

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

Grünwald

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 introduction of solutions to promote digitalization in the company in the areas of: property management, CRM, invoice review & approval processes, smart metering, DMS, time tracking
  • Digitization of file folders and introduction of SharePoint and Microsoft Teams as the central document & communication platform
  • Design and delivery of AI workshops including rollout of AI tools to increase efficiency and transparency in key business processes
  • Creation of training materials and delivery of user training for newly introduced digital processes and solutions
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Felix Bauchspiess

Felix Bauchspiess

Program, Portfolio & Transformation Management

Essen

Last position:

Digital Consultant and Solution Manager at Vorwerk SE & Co. KG

  • Introduction of a new digital product into the Chinese market as part of a global growth strategy.

  • Point of contact and coordinating interface between central product management, local Chinese teams, and international stakeholders.

  • Managed the full program management for coordinating complex digital projects.

  • Successful launch of a digital product in China (including successful certification for the Chinese market).

  • Balanced local requirements with global priorities while considering tax and regulatory conditions.

  • Introduced a new way of working to improve cross-site collaboration and steering.

  • Developed and implemented a scaling strategy for the digital business model in China.

  • Used Jira, Confluence, Miro, Scrum, Agile ways of working, SAFe.

  • Project language: English.

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Chris Wolf

Chris Wolf

IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT | PROGRAM MANAGEMENT | STRATEGY CONSULTING

Berlin

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

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Matthias Bullmahn

Matthias Bullmahn

Interim Manager for Transformation, Change and Restructuring

Solingen

Last position:

Member at Rotary – Passport Club Werderscher Markt

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Florian Ripper

Florian Ripper

Principal, Program & Transformation Lead

Frankfurt am Main

Last position:

Global Programme Lead, Ecosystem Separation at Merck Group

  • Electronics – Surface Solutions | Carve-out of IT, data and system landscape*

  • Separation of a full business division's IT, data and system landscape following divestment; centrally governed investment envelope in the three-digit m€ range

  • Laboratory notebook and laboratory analytics platform stream: Palantir Foundry, Snowflake, Signals Notebook, Power BI and connected laboratory instrumentation; site transition completed without interruption to laboratory operations

  • Decision authority and escalation point for business, IT infrastructure, IT security and vendors; separation executed across globally distributed users and systems, handed over on schedule

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Jens Reichert

Jens Reichert

Finance Transformation Director

Neubiberg

Last position:

Finance Transformation Director at Bauer Media Group

  • After several S/4 go-lives, structure, role clarity, and decision clarity were missing in Finance and IT; governance mechanisms, prioritization logic, and responsibilities were not defined well enough.

  • Unclear interfaces, high coordination effort, and inconsistent ways of working led to organizational instability and limited leadership and steering capability.

  • The existing operating model between Finance, Controlling, and IT was not working, which affected transparency, collaboration, and decision paths.

  • Designed the transformation and organization architecture for Finance and clarified roles, decision paths, and priorities.

  • Diagnosed and structured the Finance and IT organizations (DE/UK/PL), including collaboration, responsibilities, and interfaces.

  • Redesigned the Finance–IT operating model with a focus on governance, steering routines, and cross-functional collaboration.

  • Enabled leaders and teams, especially Global Process Owners, Key Users, and Finance Leads (systemic organizational development / leadership).

  • Steered the transformation portfolio, including clarity on risks, dependencies, and cross-functional decision processes.

  • Restored structural steering capability by clearly defining roles, decision paths, and priorities and anchoring them across the organization.

  • Strengthened governance and cross-functional collaboration in a systemic way - Finance, Controlling, and IT worked again in consistent, aligned structures; friction losses dropped measurably.

  • Harmonized working and communication logic, making coordination faster, more transparent, and less conflict-heavy.

  • Enabled the organization in a sustainable way, including the build-up of a strong Key User / Process Owner community and clearly defined steering routines.

  • Made the transformation structurally manageable - prioritized initiatives, clear risk and progress logic, and consistent decision formats increased execution speed.

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Hossam Wazzan

Hossam Wazzan

PMO and Transformation Leader With 15+ Years in Big 4 Consulting and Corporate Delivery

Bremen

Last position:

Senior Manager – Transformation & Strategy at Maven Insights

  • Selected as SME for a government executive authority in Dubai, benchmarking four PPM platforms against technical fit and delivery risk and developing the target operating model and strategic benchmarks.
  • Led an operational optimization project for a performance-based road maintenance contract, directing two consultants and delivering a 10% improvement against contract KPIs.
  • Managed delivery of a smart city implementation as the consulting firm's project manager, coordinating the specialist solution consultant and the site's asset owner, and owning project governance and reporting.
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Frank Cappel

Frank Cappel

Agile Team Coach & SAFe RTE Consultant

Düsseldorf

Last position:

Agile and classic Change Transformation Manager at Freelance Interim Manager | Transformation, Change & Procurement Consultant

  • Industries: Energy, Telecommunications, Manufacturing
  • Transformation & Change: Supported complex IT and digital transformation programs as Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Change Manager and RTE Consultant at Siemens Energy (global SAFe rollout), E.ON (sales technology platform), Schneider Electric (S/4HANA transformation DACH) and Vodafone (Operational Excellence)
  • Agile Roles: Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Product Owner, Business Analyst, RTE Consultant in cross-functional and scaled teams (SAFe, Scrum, Spotify Model)
  • Procurement Excellence: Strategic purchasing consulting with a focus on cost optimization, supplier management, digitalization and organizational development, including building supplier scorecard models, AI-supported procurement approaches and process automation in purchasing
  • Managed functional leadership of interdisciplinary project teams of up to 12 people in national and international settings
  • Successful launch of several global ARTs at Siemens Energy with improved coordination across sites
  • Increased change acceptance and established communication structures in the S/4HANA program at Schneider Electric
  • Introduced agile methods, OKR frameworks and KPI dashboards at E.ON, increasing velocity and transparency
  • Reduced purchasing costs through strategic sourcing and supplier optimization
  • Implemented process innovations in close cooperation with IT and business teams
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Enrique Carrillo

Enrique Carrillo

Senior AI & Automation / Transformation Lead

Isernhagen

Last position:

AI – Automation Senior Analyst/ Developer at Heinz & DF

  • Designed and implemented comprehensive business processes, leading cross-functional teams to increase customer satisfaction and reduce costs
  • Provided training and ensured benefits realization through end-to-end workflow development
  • Contributed to the “Generate Insights from Hidden Knowledge” initiative by developing and deploying AI-driven workflow automation solutions using Large Language Models (LLMs) and low-code/no-code platforms
  • Designed multi-agentic workflows integrating OpenAI, LangChain, Haystack, and n8n to automate document review, data extraction, and knowledge summarization processes
  • Led the orchestration of AI and automation frameworks to enhance medical and business review processes, ensuring compliance, explainability, and transparency
  • Collaborated cross-functionally to translate complex business requirements into AI-enabled automation prototypes aligned with enterprise compliance and data privacy standards
  • Applied Power Automate, UiPath, Nintex, and ServiceNow to deliver rapid, scalable, and secure automation solutions within validated operational environments
  • Leveraged Lean Six Sigma, Agile/SAFe, and ITIL principles to structure AI development pipelines ensuring measurable impact, auditability, and sustainable governance
  • Managed cross-departmental collaboration to standardize workflows, reducing errors and enhancing task management. Established governance frameworks to ensure the sustainability of automation solutions
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Corinna Picker

Corinna Picker

Transformation Management with responsibility for implementation | Sparring for leadership

München

Last position:

Sparring partner for the management at goldgas

  • Tackling challenges in the context of a transformation programme.
  • Focus on leadership challenges.
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Salome Lassner

Salome Lassner

Senior Program Manager Transformation Office & Consultant

Nuremberg

Last position:

Senior Program Manager Transformation Office & Consultant at Getinge

  • Management of a transformation program of 7 projects across 3 sites in Europe with special focus on coating, CTD and combination products

  • Development of strategies, monitoring of progress and control of results

  • Defining the scope in Jira, managing the schedule and milestones in collaboration with the project managers of the standalone products

  • Coordinating cross-program collaboration and managing dependencies between all projects and suppliers

  • Reporting progress and creating reports for C-level management

  • Developing risk mitigation strategies and implementing effective measures

  • Establishing collaboration between the projects, the development team and the core team

  • Defining and establishing communication channels across sites and projects

  • Identifying potential program risks and supplier management

  • Defined roles and responsibilities across all projects

  • Planned, organized and moderated cross-departmental meetings for analysis and documentation of dependencies and requirements

  • Implemented and developed cross-divisional guidelines and recommendations to harmonize common processes

  • Developed proposals to reduce complexity

  • Defined the work culture and deliverables to ensure program gates and milestones

  • Coached key team members to increase interdisciplinary cooperation

  • Maintained tasks in Jira

  • Regular audits and reports to TÜV Süd and SUKL

  • Increased transparency for a complex program setup

  • Implemented measures to reduce risks

  • Established clear communication strategy for all involved projects and departments

  • Completed CTD submission for combination products to TÜV Süd and SUKL

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Mathias Clausen

Mathias Clausen

Business Transformation Lead | SAP S/4HANA Finance

Last position:

Subproject lead data migration and quality assurance at Commerzbank

  • Migration of financial data from Microsoft Dynamics to SAP ECC for eleven companies, as well as from SAP S/4HANA to SAP ECC for one additional company. At the same time, an interface from an operational leasing tool to SAP S/4HANA had to be tested from a business perspective and aligned in an audit-proof way.

  • Lead and plan the migration work packages, create the migration concept for accounts payable and accounts receivable with active customer-vendor integration, set up the reconciliation and QA method, test management, cutover planning, and audit-proof project documentation.

SAP/business focus: SAP S/4HANA, SAP ECC, FI, Business Partner/CVI, Finance Data Migration, Reconciliation, Test Management, Cutover

  • Traceable and audit-proof migration of multiple companies with clear reconciliation logic, strong QA evidence, and controlled cutover.
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Broder Feddersen

Broder Feddersen

Project Management and Consulting

Berlin

Last position:

Program Manager - IT Networks Service Management and Transition at Die Autobahn GmbH des Bundes

  • Managing the further development of IT network service management

  • Overall leadership of the transition, consulting on the transition of IT network services

  • IT coordination of a tender in the area of IT network services

For (3) Further development of IT network service management Managing follow-up work for the transition (including setup of issue management) Managing and monitoring the performance of external service providers Consulting and managing the further development of IT network service management (processes, procedures, organization, tools)

For (2) Transition of IT network services Overall leadership of the transition (transfer of operational responsibility for IT network services to an IT service provider) Definition and setup of transition governance Planning and tracking of milestones, dependencies and cutover windows Managing the preparation, achieving operational readiness & process/tool integration Carrying out service handovers (cutover, parallel run, stabilization) Ensuring risk management, progress tracking, steering committee and management reporting, stakeholder management

For (1) IT coordination of the IT network services tender Managing all IT work streams of an IT network tender Coordinating the creation of all service descriptions IT review / evaluation of offers IT representative in bidder talks/negotiations Creating presentations/decision papers

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Michael Kunz

Michael Kunz

Enterprise Architect, Lead Architect of the transformation program and coach

Cologne

Last position:

Enterprise Architect, Lead Architect of the transformation program and coach at Swiss Ministry

  • Development of the overall architecture
  • Support for the respective workstreams in developing architectures in the areas of infrastructure, data centers, security, and network topology
  • Coordination of the architect pool
  • Support for program management in building the transformation project based on agile methods
  • Consideration of regulatory requirements for IT projects in the federal administration
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Daniel Sarbacher

Daniel Sarbacher

Senior Project and Transformation Manager

Marxzell

Last position:

Technical Project Manager at Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen Girozentrale (Helaba) / WIBank

  • Digitalization and modernization of business-critical funding processes and customer portals*

Steering several successive digitalization and transformation initiatives – from preliminary analysis and quality gates to technical implementation and release planning.

Responsibilities

  • Overall steering of multiple digitalization initiatives
  • Project planning, roadmaps, and quality gates
  • Coordination of business units, IT, and service providers
  • Risk, schedule, and stakeholder management
  • Management reporting

Project focus

  • Digitalization of funding processes
  • Modernization of the WIBank customer portal
  • Release planning
  • Electronic identification
  • GAP-23 reporting

Value added

  • Responsibility for the full project lifecycle and creation of transparent decision-making foundations for management and project committees.
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Transformation Managers statistics

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

21 years

Position duration

2.7 years

Positions per freelancer

13

Top business areas

Project Management, Information Technology, Strategy

Top industries

Information Technology, Professional Services, Manufacturing

Certification focus areas

Project Management, Information Technology, Strategy

Bachelor's degree or higher

98%

Master's degree or higher

73%

Doctorate

13%

Certifications per freelancer

4

Most common languages

German, English, Spanish

Speak two or more languages

98%

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Frequently Asked Questions

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A Transformation Manager leads complex change work from planning to execution. That usually includes building the roadmap, coordinating workstreams, managing stakeholders, and keeping risks visible. Freelancers are often asked to step in when a company needs a clear driver for a business, process, or organization change.

A freelance transformation lead makes sense when the work is urgent, time-bound, or too specific to justify a long hiring process. It also helps when a company needs outside perspective during a reorg, ERP rollout, or operating model shift. If the need is mainly execution and steering, a freelancer is often the faster choice.

The best change manager profiles combine structure, stakeholder management, and calm execution. They should be able to run meetings, create clear plans, and turn loose goals into actions that teams can follow. Experience with transformation governance and cross-functional coordination is usually essential.

Not always. A program manager usually focuses on planning and delivery across several projects, while a Transformation Manager also has to shape adoption, behavior change, and business impact. In practice, the titles overlap a lot, especially in change-heavy organizations.

In Germany, clients often hire a transformation lead for reorganization, shared service setups, process harmonization, and SAP-related change. International firms also look for help when local teams need to align with global standards. Strong German and English communication can be important when many stakeholders are involved.

Look for evidence that the person has actually driven change, not just reported on it. A strong transformation lead can explain how they handled resistance, kept leaders aligned, and made decisions visible. Ask for examples of deliverables such as roadmaps, governance structures, and stakeholder plans.

Both can work, depending on the phase of the transformation. Remote work is fine for planning, reporting, and coordination, but on-site presence often helps during workshops, leadership meetings, and rollout moments. Many clients in Germany use a hybrid setup for that reason.

Ask how the person handles unclear scope, competing priorities, and resistant stakeholders. For a Transformation Manager, the most useful answers are concrete and specific: what changed, who was involved, what broke down, and how they kept delivery moving. A good candidate can also explain how they measure progress without hiding behind slide decks.

The average hourly rate for Transformation Managers in Germany is 135 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 1,080 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers working as Transformation Managers in Germany, 98% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 73% hold at least a Master's degree, and 13% hold a doctorate.

On average, freelancers working as Transformation Managers in Germany have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.7 years.

The most common languages among freelancers working as Transformation Managers in Germany are German (100%), English (98%), and Spanish (26%).

The most common industries among freelancers working as Transformation Managers in Germany are Information Technology (72%), Professional Services (67%), and Manufacturing (65%).

The most common business areas among freelancers working as Transformation Managers in Germany are Project Management (96%), Information Technology (85%), and Strategy (83%).

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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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