Value Stream Manager in Gallatin, Tennessee at BERETTA USA CORP

Position Title:

Value Stream Manager, Gallatin Operations

Beretta USA is seeking an accomplished Value Stream Manager for Gallatin Operations to strengthen production flow, inspire cross-functional teams, and accelerate lean manufacturing, operational excellence, and customer-focused results. This role offers the opportunity to shape value stream performance, develop capable teams, and contribute directly to the continued growth and success of the business.

• Operational leadership: The role oversees the value stream from raw-material procurement through product delivery, coordinates production, quality assurance, and supply chain activities, and leads continuous improvement through lean methods.
• Performance and improvement: Core priorities include daily metric-based analysis, budget accountability, rapid problem solving, standard work, annual budgeting, cost-saving projects, and focus on safety, quality, delivery, cost, growth, and people metrics.

• Candidate qualifications: Requirements include a bachelor’s degree, eight to ten years of measured global manufacturing experience in a high-mix, low-volume environment, strong financial, analytical, negotiation, communication, and project-management skills, advanced Excel and systems knowledge, and familiarity with artificial intelligence supplemental supply chain tools such as ChatGPT and Copilot.

Responsibilities Summary:

Reporting to the Vice President of Supply Chain and Manufacturing, the Value Stream Manager owns the end-to-end performance of assigned Gallatin value streams. The role integrates people, materials, equipment, quality, cost, and continuous improvement to achieve Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Growth, and People objectives.

The Value Stream Manager is accountable for the safe, efficient, and reliable performance of assigned value streams from material availability through product delivery. This leader directs cross-functional execution, removes barriers to flow, develops people, and drives measurable improvement in Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, Growth, and People performance.

Key Focus Areas:

Success in this role will be demonstrated through sustained improvement in employee safety, first-pass quality, schedule attainment, throughput, cost performance, inventory flow, employee capability, and completion of prioritized continuous-improvement initiatives.

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS AND SPECIAL SKILLS

The successful candidate will demonstrate strong business acumen, sound judgment, and a practical understanding of manufacturing management processes. This individual must communicate effectively across organizational levels, organize competing priorities, lead and motivate others, and manage multiple projects in a fast-paced operating environment.

The ideal candidate will combine urgency, integrity, resilience, and a hands-on leadership style. This individual must influence peers, build alignment around shared objectives, use quantitative analysis to guide decisions, and translate operational issues into practical actions.

Personal Strengths: The successful candidate will bring professional credibility, sound judgment, strong analytical capability, positive energy, and a genuine commitment to helping teams and the business succeed.

• Maturity, credibility, and unquestioned integrity.
• Highly developed analytical skills.
• A high energy level, passion and strong work ethic.
• Decisive, action and result oriented.
• Strong persuasive abilities.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Demonstrates a “hands-on” approach that supports team empowerment and accomplishment.

• Confident, intelligent, and intuitive.
• An ability to approach issues knowledgeably, decisively, and pragmatically and to subsequently devise reasoned solutions to problems. An excellent problem solver.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Qualifications:

• Lean manufacturing certification (SME, Lean Enterprise Institute, BAMA or other) preferred

• Excellent negotiation skills
• Proven ability to build relationships and work effectively as a leader and/or team member with cross-functional teams

• Advanced systems skills and working knowledge of MS Office, with advanced Excel knowledge

Demonstrates a positive attitude, professional demeanor, and the ability to adapt effectively in a fast-paced, changing environment.