
Barbara Fouasseau
Senior Project Management Officer | Health & Safety
Salary / Daily rate
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Freelance
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
PMO expert with 7+ years supporting global programs at HEINEKEN, Ahold Delhaize, and ABN AMRO. Specialized in budget forecasting, stakeholder management, and technical project coordination for 90+ international operations. Ready to streamline your project delivery with proven expertise in contract management and resource optimization.
Work experience
Senior Operations Lead
Booking.comFreelance
Jan 2026 - Present
10 months
Amsterdam, Netherlands
PMO / Senior Ops Lead within Booking.com CT team. Relevant Business Operations Experience * Supported leadership teams in executing annual and quarterly planning cycles, ensuring alignment between strategic priorities, resources, budgets, and delivery roadmaps. * Coordinated the rhythm of business by preparing and facilitating governance forums, including monthly business reviews, quarterly operational reviews, and leadership planning sessions. * Partnered with cross-functional teams across Product, Engineering, Data, and Business functions to track strategic initiatives, manage dependencies, and ensure timely delivery against OKRs and KPIs. * Developed executive-ready presentations and portfolio reporting, translating complex operational and technical information into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership. * Managed portfolio tracking through Jira and PPM tooling, maintaining visibility of deliverables, milestones, risks, dependencies, and overall programme health. * Drove follow-up on leadership decisions by monitoring action items, ensuring accountability, and escalating risks where required. * Supported budget and resource planning activities by collaborating with Finance and programme leads on forecasting, financial reporting, and capacity planning. * Improved operational efficiency by standardising reporting processes, governance routines, and planning artefacts across multiple workstreams. * Facilitated stakeholder alignment across multiple departments, acting as a trusted business operations partner and central point of coordination between strategic and operational teams. * Supported change initiatives by coordinating communications, planning activities, readiness tracking, and adoption of new ways of working. * Coordinated internal leadership events, workshops, planning sessions and off-sites, ensuring content preparation, logistics, stakeholder communication, and smooth end-to-end execution. * Balanced strategic planning responsibilities with hands-on operational support, adapting quickly to changing priorities within fast-paced technology environments.
Project Management Office
The HEINEKEN Company
Mar 2024 - Present
2 years 8 months
Amsterdam, Netherlands
PMO - Health & Safety Project Management Support: Global Health & Safety program supporting over 90 HEINEKEN OpCo’s. • Reporting: Scheduling monthly SteerCo meetings, preparing slides, and assisting the program manager with documentation of scope, planning, deliverables, milestones, and change documentation. • Project Support: Supporting technical teams in the overall deployment of various software modules in line with Global Safety Standards. Facilitating UAT, E2E testing, maintaining issue logs, supporting the technical engineers. • Training & Knowledge Material: Conducting training sessions for global Safety & Health professionals. Developing and translating training materials. Creation of SharePoint knowledge center. Delivering comprehensive training on Incident Management, BBS, Audit & Inspections, and Occupational Health. • Budget and Financial Analysis: Forecasting monthly costs across the portfolio, updating project ACT/ETC/ EAC/based on monthly spend. Reporting on OPEX/CAPEX spend. • Planning and Resource Management: Resource planning, allocation of resources per project/stream, and optimizing project schedules and resource utilization within the program. • Stakeholder Management: Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders involved in architecture and integrations (MyHR/SuccessFactors team, SAP, ServiceNow). Supporting the global architect with scheduling iterations/sprints. Coordinating between departments and external parties for setting up APIs. • Contract Management: Reviewing contracts (T&M, FP), PO creation and invoicing.
Project Management Officer
Ahold DelhaizeFreelance
May 2022 - May 2024
2 years 1 month
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Project Management Officer (PMO) at Ahold Delhaize. Providing overall support to the IAM team and Business control as Finance PMO. Successfully managed and led the PMO for large-scale projects across several streams and brands. - Project Management: Global IAM Program supporting 20+ projects supporting 12 Project Managers. - Reporting : Weekly progress meeting and updating of project status in ITBM, support project managers in documents scope, schedule, deliverables, milestones and change documentation. - Budgeting and Cost Management: Managing and tracking the annual budget of the overall IAM program, tracked expenses, and analysed cost variances to ensure financial viability. - Budgeting and financial analysis; Forecasting monthly expenses across the portfolio, updating project Estimates to Complete (ETC), Estimate at Completion (EAC) based on monthly Actuals (ACT) (OPEX / CAPEX). - Scheduling and Resource Management: Resource planning, allocated resources per project/stream, and optimized project timelines and resource utilization across the program. - Stakeholder Management: Collaborating with international teams and payment reconciliation with large vendors. - Contract Management: Reviewing contracts and setting up Purchase Orders based on scope ( T&M , Fixed-price) , fostering vendor relationships and handled purchase orders and invoice management based on contractual delivery.
Project Integrator
ABN AMRO Bank N.V.
Jan 2022 - May 2022
5 months
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Domain PMO within the Data Quality Management domain. -collaboration with senior stakeholders to ensure timely execution and completion of initiative milestones. -Produced management information including scenario analysis, impact analysis and decision documents. Set up OKR's on Initiative level. -Progress tracking on initiative-level, reporting on RAG-status and ensure status update across all PPM tooling including SNOW and JIRA. -Allign with project team members to identify dependencies on domain and initiative-level and provide suggestions/ solutions to unforeseen issues.
PMO & Buss development | FinTech professional
Synapse Intelligence
Dec 2017 - Dec 2021
4 years 1 month
Zug Area, Switzerland
In an era of ever-increasing digitalization, we are currently facing the challenge of adapting to a market environment that is rapidly evolving. Our mission is to foster the current needs of the market, by developing stable and regulated solutions. We are developing a solid link between progressive distributed ledger technology and traditional financial markets and services. I was taken on board to support the team in all around business activities for the start-up project Resolutum. PMO • Calender management; schedule and coordinate team meetings and client's meeting. • . Implementation of PMO tools and developing of the Project Management plan across several divisions. • Keep track of the status of multiple key initiatives, reporting to higher management. • Managing resource forecast, visualize the availability of various resources for PR/Marketing, IT; ensure that each activity can be completed on time (planning). • Take meeting minutes and update action/decision/issue logs accordingly. • Plan, budget, monitor and report on the project process. Collaborate with the team; PR, legal and tech division establishing a comprehensive, timely and consistent workflow. Plan PR-activities together with the PR-agency in conjunction with the strategy and budget. • Develop and design sales and marketing materials (i.e. pitch books, formal presentations, promotional materials etc.
Eurtextile
EurtextileFreelance
Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
1 year 1 month
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Managing all around business activities for Eurtextile
Executive Assistant Project Manager
Medya Şef
Sep 2015 - Oct 2017
2 years 2 months
İstanbul, Türkiye
Award-winning International advertisement agency specialized in app-development, campaigns, PR, SEO/SEA, social-strategy and more. Our big clients include Unilever, Nestlé, and Proctor&Gamble brands. Our smaller clients included several public-owned entities and smaller brands. Overseeing the design process, set deliverables, planning. Monitor costs, timescales and resources used in design process. Translation of the briefing, guide the team in charge of project design activities and review their deliverables. Business development in Europe through marketing, sales and acquisition. Provide effective support for the project team, keeping team members motivated and provide constant development of their skills and experience. Execute tests, collect and analyze data to identify trends and insights in order to achieve maximum ROI in (paid) search campaigns for several brands Manage campaign expenses, staying on budget, estimating monthly costs and reconciling discrepancies. Assist the development team in social media management ( foreign clients). Assist with editorial and marketing teams to create engagement among existing clients.
Marketing & Sales assistant - Business development
EPO Fashion (Mo&Co, edition 10, Little Mo&Co, Rec)
Nov 2015 - Aug 2016
10 months
Paris Area, France
• . Present the collection in the showroom during fashion & market week. • . Creation of a new market strategy to establish MO&CO on the European market. • . Finding new (department) stores to represent MO&CO. • . Ensure the orders are filled correctly and delivered to the client on time. • . Set up in-store (blogger) events in France and abroad.
Account Executive Benelux
Treatwell.com
Jul 2015 - Oct 2015
4 months
Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
French/Dutch/English speaking intermediary for treatwell.nl Follow-up leads Assist clients with setting up their personal webpage on the platform Follow up requests from salons, adjusting their prices & treatments Rebook customers upon request Actively contact both customers as clients located in the Belgian market by phone and mail Monitoring and solving payment issues
Management Trainee
Alexander Wang Inc.
Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
6 months
Paris Area, France
Assisting the sales-team during market week | assisting with the marketing and social media | sourcing potential selling points for the - T by AW – line.
Assistant Director of Sales Marketing (Benelux)
Lokal Advertising
Sep 2013 - Mar 2015
1 year 7 months
İstanbul, Türkiye
Approaching potential clients in Europe. Communicating feedback from customer to the designer. Assist the creative director with creating strategies to position new brands on the Benelux market. Creating and analysing marketing campaigns Adjust campaigns according to the requirements customer. Follow-up with the customer to ensure he is satisfied with the final result.
Education
SRM
Online Marketing
2017 - 2017
1 year
Inholland University of Applied Sciences
Bachelor's studies / Propedeuse
2008 - 2013
6 years
Yeditepe University
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc)
2011 - 2012
2 years