Reconomy bolsters technology leadership team

International circular economy specialist, Reconomy, has strengthened its technology capabilities through the appointment of Jenny Dodsworth as Group Programme & Delivery Director to its Technology Leadership Team, and announced its commitment to a major capital investment in excess of £10 million in 2025 to accelerate product development.

Dodsworth is a highly-experienced senior Programme Director with a proven track record of implementing major transformation and organisational change projects at FTSE 100 companies across different sectors. She has extensive expertise in digital and customer roadmap management, business case inception and delivery and has previously held senior programme roles at leading international businesses including Capita, Merlin Entertainments, Virgin Atlantic and Argos, implementing large scale ERPs including customer and digital strategies. Dodsworth was most recently at A2Dominion, a housing association, where she oversaw improvement transformations across procurement, finance and property functions impacting people, processes and technology. In this role, she shaped, directed and led a major multi-million pound D365 transformation programme, the largest in Europe at the time, before leaving to join Reconomy.

In her new role, she will report into Jody Fullman, Chief Information Officer, and work closely with him and also the Change and Transformation team led by James Skeet, Director of Group Change and Transformation, to drive technology change programmes across Reconomy. She will also play a major role in supporting Reconomy’s strategy to scale across North America and integrate newly acquired companies in this market.

Commenting on her new appointment, Dodsworth said: “I am excited to have joined Reconomy with its excellent track record and clear purpose to enable the circular economy for its customers. I look forward to working closely with Jody and the senior leadership teams to drive major change programmes across the organisation to capitalise on the opportunities ahead of us and create a more sustainable world.”

Technology strategy and capital investment

Reconomy is in the midst of a period of rapid growth as it takes advantage of the highly attractive opportunities in the international circular economy. With the world currently consuming more resources than can be replenished, businesses are increasingly recognising the economic imperative of embracing circularity to preserve precious materials and cut waste.

In the last six years Reconomy has acquired c.30 brands and technology is critical to transforming its operations to deliver on the strategic priorities of attaining leading positions in its core markets and scaling across North America. The Company’s technology strategy consists of three key elements:

1. Streamlining Reconomy’s back office operations
2. Platform and data product consolidations
3. New product development

Powering this strategy is RecoTek, Reconomy’s technology scaling centre and in-house delivery capability. Launched last year, this centre now employs over 130 people and is focused on accelerating product development by adding additional extensive capabilities to Reconomy’s existing and deeply talented technology teams.

To support these strategic initiatives, Reconomy intends to invest over £10 million this year.

Guy Wakeley, Chief Executive of Reconomy, commented: “Technology is one of our greatest competitive advantages and is the driving force behind our rapid growth. In less than a year, Jody and his team have established a world-class technology scaling centre that will enable us to deliver on our strategic priorities and provide circular economy led solutions to our customers, helping them unlock commercial opportunities and deliver cost efficiencies. I look forward to seeing Jenny make an invaluable contribution to our technology and growth agendas.”