Alistair Spalding

15 years experience as a product owner and project leader in digital product development and eCommerce.

Oslo, Oslo, Norway

About

A digital project manager with experience from both Norwegian and British book industries, ecommerce, and the Norwegian education sector. Helping businesses define projects in terms developers understand. Long experience of creating products and bringing them to market. Creative and curious, enjoy finding efficiencies and thinking differently. I thrive when developing ideas with others and think that cooperation and openness lead to the best results for businesses.

Experience

  • Senior Project Leader at Knowit
    Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

  • Columbus (Oslo, Norway)
    • Senior Business Consultant
      Apr 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Launching and evolving digital projects that meet the needs of clients, markets and technology.

    • Business Consultant
      Dec 2022 - Apr 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Aschehoug (Full-time · 7 yrs 11 mos)
    • Product owner, digital commerce
      Apr 2021 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

    • Product Owner
      Feb 2015 - Apr 2021 · 6 yrs 3 mos

      Agile development of digital educational products for the Norwegian school market, from concept initiation to project completion. Secured budgets and wrote funding applications, ensuring profitable operations. Launched several digital services, websites, and apps aimed at the school and private markets. Managed a physical digital device product portfolio generating 3 million NOK annually, with rapid growth. Ambassador for digital solutions both internally and externally. Led a team of 2 colleagues, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.

    • Digital consulent
      Feb 2015 - Oct 2019 · 4 yrs 9 mos

  • Consultant at Wordy
    Jun 2010 - Nov 2020 · 10 yrs 6 mos

    Wordy consulting and translation wordy.no, Oslo, founder. (June 2010 to present) Digital project leader, website launches, content, development and strategy. Experienced with eZ publish, Magento and Inspera platforms. Utilising Mailchimp, Google Analytics and Google adwords, CRM (Super Office 7) and various integrations. Project member for the planning and execution phases of a server migration. App development managing the development and release of apps for android and iOS. Including the popular Språkkista and Bokbussen apps. Translation of books, websites, press releases, marketing material and technical documents for a range of Norwegian small to medium sized businesses.

  • Press officer with marketing at Egmont Publishing UK
    Aug 2007 - Jul 2010 · 3 yrs

    Egmont is the UK's top specialist publisher of books and magazines for children, with award-winning divisions selling 30 million books and magazines each year. Special responsibilities for digital PR and marketing. Integrating online promotion with in store campaigns. Facebook and Spotify advertising, filmed book trailers, launched @EgmontUK on Twitter. Developed new websites and content. I launched a new collaboration with a local film school for book-films.