SVP, Loss Prevention
retail_hospitality › Loss Prevention · E2 — E2 — Senior Director (Executive) · Executive
Senior executive who directs the organization's entire loss prevention, asset protection, and retail investigations program.
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What this role is
Senior executive who directs the organization's entire loss prevention, asset protection, and retail investigations program. At the Senior Director (Executive) (E2) level, the role owns multiple functions or a major area, multi-function strategy and risk, and drives major-area outcomes. Leads function leaders.
What this level does
- Lead multiple functions or divisions spanning Loss Prevention and adjacent risk/safety areas through VP-level leaders (E1), integrating asset protection into broader store-operations risk strategy.
- Direct cross-functional shrink-reduction programs whose funding, technology bets and operating-model changes carry consequences material to divisional financial performance.
- Negotiate critical matters — enterprise security-technology contracts, ORC task-force partnerships, prosecution and civil-recovery posture — with senior law enforcement and vendor leadership.
- Establish the multi-year loss prevention operating model (in-house vs. contract officer mix, centralized vs. field investigations, analytics-driven exception reporting) across divisions.
- Set and defend consolidated shortage, safety and investigative-recovery targets to the executive team, allocating capital across surveillance and detection technology.
- Knowledge applied
- Applies cross-functional knowledge spanning loss prevention, safety and operational risk to abstract, high-consequence problems across multiple divisions or functions.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Resolves abstract issues where decisions on operating model, technology investment and prosecution posture can impact company viability at the divisional level.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates critical matters — security-technology contracts, ORC partnerships, recovery/prosecution strategy — with top internal leaders and senior external counterparts.
- Typical experience
- 15+ years, including strategic leadership of loss prevention functions or significant business units.
Skills at this level
- Shrink & Shortage Program Governance
- — Sets, allocates and defends enterprise shortage (shrink) and safety goals across stores, districts and regions, translating them into funded loss-prevention programs and holding the organization accountable for the outcomes.
- Loss Prevention Audit Program Direction
- — Directs enterprise loss-prevention audit programs — target-store audits, maintenance audits, safety audits and electronic article surveillance audits — to surface procedural deficiencies and problem areas across the fleet.
- Investigations & Retail-Crime Strategy
- — Governs the standards for investigating internal theft, external theft and vendor fraud, and sets the enterprise posture for collaborating with law enforcement to report and pursue crimes including organized retail crime.
- Physical Security & Surveillance Technology Strategy
- — Directs enterprise investment in and deployment of physical-security systems — alarms, closed-circuit cameras and electronic article surveillance (EAS) — sizing coverage against cost across the location portfolio.
- Loss Prevention Resource Deployment
- — Assesses security needs across locations to ensure proper deployment of loss-prevention resources, balancing in-house versus contract security staffing and technology coverage against risk and budget.
- Cross-Functional Loss Root-Cause Leadership
- — Leads collaboration with store management and cross-functional teams to identify the root causes of loss and to develop, fund and scale effective preventive solutions across the enterprise.
- Public Safety & Security Governance
- — Applies knowledge of security equipment, policies, procedures and strategies to govern the protection of people, data, property and institutions at enterprise scale, ensuring the program's legal defensibility.
- Enterprise Risk & Board Engagement
- — Represents enterprise security and shrink risk to the board, CEO and external industry and law-enforcement bodies, setting the corporation's risk appetite for loss, fraud and security exposure.
- Loss Prevention Policy & Compliance Architecture
- — Owns the enterprise standard operating procedures for loss prevention, physical security and risk management, and the compliance regime that monitors and enforces adherence across all stores.
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