Description
Lead enterprise loss prevention strategy and governance, directing policies, systems, and resources to protect assets across all locations. Assess risk and liability, set controls and technology standards, oversee investigations and compliance, and drive performance through analytics, partnerships, and budgeted programs.
- • Review enterprise exception reports and cash variance trends; enforce policy adherence.
- • Oversee cash audit programs and deposit investigations to ensure full accountability.
- • Lead crisis response strategy and guidance for incidents such as workplace violence, protests, and demonstrations.
- • Establish controls and monitor paperwork procedures to prevent error-related shortages.
- • Govern loss prevention data assets and ensure data quality for logs, repeat-offender reports, and alarm activity.
- • Oversee investigative protocols for internal and external theft.
- • Set standards and approve deployment of surveillance technologies.
- • Develop enterprise loss-investigation policies and advise field leadership.
- • Conduct executive site reviews to assess loss prevention compliance and performance.
- • Ensure proper selection, deployment, and maintenance of physical security systems, including CCTV, EAS, and alarms.
- • Set training strategy and curricula for loss prevention teams and retail leaders.
- • Oversee surveillance operations and case management standards.
- • Optimize loss prevention programs, staffing models, scheduling, and training.
- • Direct inventory shrink investigations and corrective action plans.
- • Lead loss prevention organization design, talent acquisition, and performance management.
- • Set documentation standards and compliance for all loss prevention activities.
- • Lead strategy for organized retail crime and complex theft or fraud investigations.
- • Direct enterprise loss prevention audit programs, including targeted, maintenance, safety, and EAS audits.
- • Cultivate partnerships with law enforcement and industry networks.
- • Oversee internal investigations into employee theft and policy violations.
- • Coordinate with law enforcement on external theft and fraud cases.
- • Assess enterprise security needs and allocate loss prevention resources and technology.
- • Analyze enterprise data to detect theft and fraud trends and drive strategy.
- • Ensure business compliance with applicable codes, laws, regulations, and standards; advise leadership.
- • Establish and monitor compliance to operational, safety, inventory, and physical security standards.
- • Identify enterprise loss drivers and develop mitigation strategies.
- • Own loss prevention systems and programs to reduce loss, improve inventory accuracy, and enhance safety.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
