We make supply chains social

2.8 million

social economy
suppliers

€700 million

spent to date

6000 jobs

created

7

pioneering businesses

Transforming Supply Chains

We connect corporate supply chains to the most socially impactful and innovative suppliers in the world, social enterprises. By buying from the social economy through the Buy Social Europe you can transform your approach to supply chain impact across EMEA.

We make supply chains social

Our team have spent many year working with, and within, major multinational procurement teams. We are deeply connected to the procurement community through our partnerships with industry bodies, relationships with procurement leaders and the experience of our advisory board.

We know procurement

Telos is a subsidiary of Social Enterprise UK. The Telos team built and developed SEUK’s flagship B2B social enterprise programme the Buy Social Corporate Challenge. We are committed to forming deep and lasting relationships with social economy partners across Europe.

We know social enterprise

More about us

Partnering with social enterprises helps with engaging our people to drive our purpose-driven business approach. We started in the UK and we’ve seen great success and benefits, and we’re excited to replicate this across EMEA to raise awareness and show the true value to our clients and people.

Amy Brogan, ESG Global Executive Director, CBRE

Richard is an internationally renowned Procurement Leader, Trainer and Executive Advisor with over 30 years’ experience across multiple industry sectors. Richard specialises in helping procurement teams to deliver greater value, reduce risk and build innovation through better use of technology.
Richard's career journey has taken across the world. After a career as an Army Officer, Richard has worked as Global Head of Supply Chain and Procurement in Construction, MD of a Financial Services company, co-Founder of an Apprentice Training business, as a Consultant with McKinsey, VP Procurement at Rolls-Royce and lastly as Chief Commercial Officer at Co-op Bank. Richard realised that his passion was helping businesses to transform their procurement teams through an experience-based mix of training, facilitation and coaching. Eruditic seeks to bridge the gap between those procurement teams the software vendors whose tools they use, to help both succeed.

Advisory Board

The Advisory Board exists to support the Telos team with strategy, insights and expertise. It is made up of industry experts from across the procurement, supply chain and purposeful business space.

Andy has been helping businesses do well by doing good for more than 20 years, having built a consultancy that pioneered the creation of commercial value from social and environmental initiatives.
He has advised senior leadership in organisations including Unilever, Mondelez, Bayer and Lego and led that consultancy to become a founding UK B Corp. The models developed to integrate sustainability and ESG into value creation feature in two editions of the award-winning book, Business on a Mission: How to Build a Sustainable Brand, and are used in teaching at ESADE and Rotterdam Business Schools and to support start-ups through Carbon 13, the Cambridge University accelerator programme.

Janet advises businesses with high growth ambition in becoming successful suppliers to the big corporates. A values- driven senior leader in governance, sustainability, procurement and strategic partnerships, with over 30 years of global experience in building teams, shaping strategy, driving change and ensuring resilience in complex environments.
A champion of inclusive access, Janet held senior supplier facing roles at major corporations: Mars and Danone, and most recently served as Chief Procurement Officer at Johnson Matthey. She brings system-thinking and a proven record of balancing financial performance with long term value creation. Passionate about collaboration and stewardship to create lasting impact. She is a member of Chapter Zero, Institute of Directors and the Sustainable Procurement Pledge UK chapter committee.

Jaime leads the Sourcing & Procurement organization in Europe for Zurich Insurance, overseeing teams in eight countries. Jaime also served as Co-Chair of the Supplier Diversity and Inclusion Chapter at the Sustainable Procurement Pledge, contributing pro-bono to advance sustainable and inclusive procurement practices.
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