Asset Protection Manager (Greater Milwaukee Area)

About the role

The Asset Protection Manager plays a critical role in protecting company assets, team members, customers, and profitability across a defined geographic territory. This leader is responsible for supporting and executing asset protection programs, minimizing shrink and risk, and ensuring consistent safety and security standards in retail and pharmacy operations.

Responsibilities

• Applies knowledge of federal, state, and local laws as they relate to the rights of team members and non-employees.
• Proactively identifies and reports on potential and actual exposure to loss of Company assets.
• Develops means to minimize risk, ensure compliance to Company policy and provide guidance to store personnel on detecting and preventing loss.
• Establishes and maintains communication avenues with Store and District Management, the Asset Protection Solutions (APS) department, key Company stakeholders, and outside agencies.
• Manages third party contracted guard force to ensure training on and adherence to policy and procedures.
• Communicates and coordinates with the Asset Protection Solutions department to reduce shrink and minimize risk in stores and corporate facilities.
• Reviews budget-to-plan and performs financial analysis of asset protection programs to recommend and implement cost savings initiatives.
• Provides guidance and programmatic oversight to other team members.
• Ensures store security objectives are consistently applied based on location needs.
• Develops and maintains comprehensive knowledge of Pharmacy and Retail Operations policies & procedures, and auditing standards.
• Collaborates with accounts payable, store managers and within APS to ensure payments are made to vendors within set time frames.
• Analyzes and distributes Area and District specific data to the field.
• Supports all business units within the geographic territory of responsibility and provides designated service level agreements.
• Manages a robust case load that includes travel, training, meeting attendance, and other incremental support of the organization.
• Manages day-to-day activities of a group of employees, assigns, monitors and reviews progress and accuracy of work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and at least 2 years of loss prevention/asset protection, safety and/or retail operations experience OR High School diploma/GED and at least 4 years of loss prevention/asset protection, safety and/or retail operations experience.
• At least 1 year of experience analyzing, evaluating, and/or presenting information to support teams.
• Experience with business, financial and/or data analysis.
• Basic level skill in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Experience handling confidential information.
• Experience using time management skills such as prioritizing/organizing and tracking details and meeting strict deadlines of multiple projects.
• Willing and able to work a flexible schedule to meet business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• Certification in Wicklander-Zulawski, and LPC/CFI designation.
• At least 3 years of experience operating asset protection systems and facility equipment.
• At least 1 year of cross functional team leadership experience.

Pay

Salary Range: $77,800 - $124,400 / Salaried