**About Balfour & Co.**
Balfour & Co. is one of the world’s leading Collegiate and High School commencement services companies, offering innovative, personalized products like class jewelry, yearbooks, regalia, school uniforms and photography. With brands such as Balfour®, GradImages®, ArtCarved®, and more, we’ve been helping students celebrate life’s most meaningful moments since 1913. Balfour has around 4,000 employees and operates in 3 countries.
**Position Summary**:will be responsible for purchasing Color Gemstones for our jewelry production and working with our suppliers and factories for making sure quality, consistency and prices are maintained.
**Essential Position Functions**:
- Purchasing of all Precious and Semi-Precious Color Stones for company’s Jewelry manufacturing
- Identifying Suppliers and working with multiple Vendors to find the right mix of quality, consistency and pricing of Color Stones
- Negotiating with Suppliers for optimal prices and selection
- Assortment, Rejection and Selection of all Precious and Semi-Precious Color Stones
- Matching and Bagging of Color Stones required for all Jewelry manufacturing
- Maintaining proper and accurate Inventory of Color Stones
- Coordinating with Accounts Dept. for Color Stone Suppliers Invoices and Accounts related queries
- Reviewing Color Stones Finished Jewelry inventory and placing orders with factories as required
- Reviewing Color Stones Jewelry Samples to put into the line and into production
- Developing ideas for new Color Stone Jewelry Samples and working with factories to turn those ideas into production




- Reviewing Color Stones Jewelry Style Costing from factories
- Working with Customers and Sales Reps for any Color Stones or Color Stone Jewelry related queries
- Product Development of New Styles of Color Stone Jewelry
- Review and Follow up with Overseas Factories with Product Development of New Color Stone Jewelry Styles
- Attending Trade Shows if require
**Specialized knowledge/Skills**:
- Must be able to handle multiple tasks with sense of urgency.
- Ability to use Microsoft Office Applications (Word, Excel, Outlook)
- Ability to work in a professional manner, self-motivated and goal oriented Honest and hardworking and detail oriented Polished and polite in interacting with suppliers, factories, customers, sales representatives and other associates
- Detail oriented with excellent organization, management, and follow-up skills
- Must be able to handle multiple tasks
- Must possess a great work ethic and have a desire to succeed!
**Education/Experience**:
- Minimum of Associate or bachelor’s degree Experience:
- Minimum of 7+ years of previous experience as a Color Stone Buyer in the Jewelry Industry
Tipo de puesto: Tiempo completo
Ventajas:
- Aumentos salariales
- Servicio de comedor con descuento
- Vales de despensa
Pregunta(s) de postulación:
- Do you currently reside in the Merida, Yuc. area?
- Have you completed the following level of education: Bachelor's Degree?
- Are you legally authorized to work in Mexico?
- Are you able to commit to a full-time, Monday through Friday, in-office schedule?
- We must fill this position urgently. Can you start immediately?
Lugar de trabajo: Empleo presencial

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