IT and telecoms project management jobs in Berlin

I'm starting this new topic as I posted this message on the previous topic "Computer Science job market..." and didn't get any replies, due to the fact that that thread had turned into a discussion about tax. Plus, that guy was a grad and I am searching a completely different market.

I am a freelance IT project manager specialising in mobile telecoms. I was in Berlin earlier this year for a temporary assignment and loved it. So, now I am thinking about whether to move here permanently.

However, I am really not sure about what kind of work would be available for me in Berlin. I've been regularly checking Gulp, Monster and Stepstone, but there are very few project management jobs requiring English language ability and certainly none in telecoms, let alone my specialist field. As a project manager, you are really expected to know the local language as you have to communicate with everyone on the project, plus stakeholders. So, I would be looking at a total English environment until my German got up to scratch. I speak conversational German, but nowhere near business level yet.

I have had mixed advice from my former colleagues in Berlin. Most tell me there is no telecoms work here - a lot of the big firms, eg Alcatel have packed up and left. The big operators are elsewhere - Vodafone in Düsseldorf, for example. The alternative would be to go for a general project management job outside of telecoms. However, this would mean a massive pay cut.

So, I have a couple of options: return to Berlin and study German full time while job hunting; alternatively, take an assignment elsewhere, keep checking the job sites and then make a strategic move back to Berlin. I guess at the end of the day it depends on badly I want to live in Berlin.

So, if anyone has any knowledge of the local IT market in Berlin, especially wrt freelance work, project management or telecoms, don't hesitate to reply to this thread or drop me a mail.

A manager position without any German language sounds complicated.