Loss Prevention Manager
retail_hospitality › Loss Prevention · M3 — M3 — Senior Manager · Management
Manages a team of loss prevention professionals to reduce shrink, theft, and safety risk across a retail operation.
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What this role is
Manages a team of loss prevention professionals to reduce shrink, theft, and safety risk across a retail operation. At the Senior Manager (M3) level, the role owns multiple teams or a sub-function, multi-team execution and resourcing trade-offs, and drives sub-function outcomes. Manages managers and/or several teams.
What this level does
- Manage loss prevention staff and safeguard company assets across a defined geographic region, reporting to a director as a first true multi-store people manager
- Develop and implement loss prevention strategies for the region and evaluate shrink trends across diverse store issues to prioritize interventions
- Own the regional loss prevention operating budget and staffing, balancing coverage cost against shrink exposure
- Collaborate with store management and cross-functional teams to identify root causes of loss and develop effective solutions region-wide
- Oversee investigation programs for internal theft, external theft and vendor fraud across the region, ensuring consistent case standards
- Knowledge applied
- Applies loss prevention strategy across diverse store situations; evaluates shrink trends to shape regional programs.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Addresses diverse issues across multiple stores; interprets trends to prioritize interventions.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Leads a regional team and partners with store operations; reports to a director.
- Typical experience
- 5–7+ years managing loss prevention professionals and regional budgets.
Skills at this level
- Surveillance & security systems operation
- — Operates and oversees physical security infrastructure — CCTV/closed-circuit cameras, alarms, and electronic article surveillance (sensor-tag) systems — and directs monitoring of video and in-store behavior to detect shoplifting or employee theft.
- Loss prevention investigation
- — Investigates known or suspected internal theft, external theft and vendor fraud, applying case management systems, database software, Access and SQL to research activity, establish evidence, and drive resolution.
- Shrink strategy & program development
- — Develops and implements loss prevention strategies and programs to protect company assets, minimize shrinkage, and prevent theft and fraud across stores.
- Store audit & root-cause analysis
- — Conducts store audits to identify problem areas and procedural deficiencies, and collaborates with store management to isolate root causes of loss and develop countermeasures.
- Loss prevention team leadership
- — Manages loss prevention specialists, coordinators and contract security officers across single or multiple stores, setting coverage, case standards and performance.
- Employee training on loss prevention
- — Develops and delivers training to store employees on loss prevention techniques and shrink-reduction procedures.
- Law enforcement liaison
- — Serves as liaison with local law enforcement to assist with investigations of accidents, thefts and property loss.
- Workplace violence prevention
- — Leads workplace violence prevention programs and associated employee training to protect people and premises.
- Security operations knowledge
- — Applies knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures and strategies to promote effective security operations for the protection of people, data, property and institutions.
- Enterprise risk & business continuity
- — Extends loss prevention into enterprise risk management, working across store operations and supply chain during crises to keep stores open, safe and available.
- Loss prevention budget management
- — Owns loss prevention operating and staffing budgets, balancing coverage cost against shrink exposure at regional, divisional or enterprise scale.
- Asset safeguarding policy development
- — Develops policies, procedures and systems for safeguarding company assets against theft, fraud and financial loss.
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