Senior Director of Loss Prevention
retail_hospitality › Loss Prevention · M6 — M6 — Vice President · Management
Senior executive who leads the organization's entire loss prevention function across multiple regions or the whole enterprise.
Median pay · United States · annual
$241,631 USD
▲ +182.2% vs M1 on this ladder
Typical range ()
Ask about this role
grounded in this role's JobFrame record + structureDownload this job's description (markdown) → derived live from this record.
Key statistics
The identity block — every fact is canon, none is generated.
6 of 8
Track
Management
Family rungs priced
M1 · M2 · M3 · M4 · M5 · M6
—
Coordinates
2 / 4 spaces
pay@2 · 2026-07
What this role is
Senior executive who leads the organization's entire loss prevention function across multiple regions or the whole enterprise. At the Vice President (M6) level, the role owns a major function or division, enterprise priorities and external factors, and drives division-wide / organization-wide. Leads the leadership of a division.
What this level does
- Lead asset protection and enterprise risk strategy across multiple divisions or the entire company through senior managers, with long-term effect on company success
- Define long-term policy for loss prevention, fraud, safety and business continuity, addressing abstract cross-functional risk issues
- In times of crisis, work across the organization with store operations and supply chain leaders to keep stores open, safe and available
- Negotiate with executives on critical risk and asset-protection matters and influence company-wide policy on shrink, theft and safety
- Set the multi-year investment agenda for security technology, investigations capability and enterprise risk management
- Knowledge applied
- Defines long-term enterprise risk and asset-protection strategy across functions and divisions.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Tackles abstract, cross-functional risk and continuity issues with long-term company impact.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates with executives on critical risk matters; policy influencer across the enterprise.
- Typical experience
- 12–15+ years of deep leadership across departments or divisions in loss prevention/risk.
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.
Model-authored from 19 retrieved sources, then adversarially reviewed by an independent judge panel and held to a minimum-evidence floor before publication. Distinct from corpus-extracted content, which is labelled as such.
Scan / share this profile
Put this on a job description, posting, poster, book, or catalog — it opens this canonical profile.
https://jobframe.global/profile/jf_loss_prevention%3A%3AM6
As of · 2026-07-30
Edition · canon-v2@2.1.0-complete
Source · canon-v2 cell + salary-benchmark (model)
Act on this profile
Guides
A guided career narrative for this exact profile — pilot clusters first.
Assessments
Level-scoped evaluation criteria, BARS frames, and structured-interview dimensions — from this profile's canon + O*NET.
Free
Assemble a validated assessment battery for a role from the library's pieces.
Free
Past-behavior-first structured interview questions, anchored rating scales, and panel-scoring instructions — from this profile's canon + O*NET.
Free
The complete work-products kit for one canonical job profile: level-scoped evaluation criteria with BARS frames, structured-interview dimensions and guide, performance criteria, and goal/scorecard templates — all canon-grounded and basis-labeled.
$29
Work-products kits for every level and focus in one job family — the hiring-manager shape: assess, interview, and set goals across the whole ladder consistently.
$99
Every work-products kit across all canonical profiles, refreshed as source editions land.
$49/mo
Every work-products kit across all canonical profiles, refreshed as source editions land. Annual billing (two months free).
$490/yr
JobFrame Enterprise
One job framework. Every talent decision.
The unified, transparent framework your hiring, pay, performance, promotion, learning, and management decisions all build on — recomputed into your org's own maintained edition.
Recalculate for your org