(USA) Asset Protection Operations Coach

Walmart•Knoxville, TN

13d•$65,000 - $100,000•Onsite

About The Position

This role drives sales by ensuring effective merchandise presentation, including accurate pricing, proper signing, inventory levels, and cleanliness. It involves leading and developing teams through teaching, training, and feedback, while also overseeing stocking, merchandise displays, and securing high-shrink merchandise. The position requires modeling exceptional customer service, managing customer issues, and developing action plans for improvement. It also involves supervising and developing hourly associates, controlling merchandise loss, and improving profitability by setting goals and ensuring adherence to policies. The role includes investigating policy violations and criminal activities, monitoring safety and risk controls, and managing facility-level training for asset protection, safety, claims, and receiving procedures. Additionally, it requires coordinating job-related activities, ensuring compliance with company policies, and upholding the company's mission, values, and ethics.

Requirements

Completion of 2 years of college.
1 year’s experience as a supervisor in a multi-department environment.
1 year’s experience in accounting, claims, inventory control, systems/UPC, personnel, or loss prevention/asset protection in a multi-department environment.
2 years’ experience in asset protection or related area.
Successful completion of any applicable state requirements to work in asset protection (e.g., minimum age, specialized training, certification and/or licensing).
If applicable, acquisition of a current, state-issued Certificate of Eligibility.
If applicable, successful completion of criminal background check and/or firearms authorized training.
Associates will be required to attend and successfully complete all job-required trainings and assessments (e.g., Academy trainings, Open Door trainings, etc.).

Nice To Haves

Bachelor of Science in Business Management and Leadership through Live Better U and Bellevue University
Certificate of Completion in People and Business Leadership through Live Better U and Bellevue University
Certification in an asset protection related field (e.g., Loss Prevention Qualified, Loss Prevention Certified)
General work experience supervising 5 or more direct reports to include the responsibility of performance management, mentoring, hiring, and firing
Investigative experience
Bachelors: Business
Bachelors: Criminal Justice

Responsibilities

Drives sales by ensuring effective merchandise presentation, including accurate and competitive pricing, proper signing, inventory levels, cleanliness of the area, assessing economic trends and community needs, overseeing the stocking and rotation of merchandise, setting up, cleaning, and organizing product displays, and securing fragile and high-shrink merchandise.
Leads and develops teams effectively by teaching, training, and actively listening to associates, touring stores and providing feedback (Tour to Teach), communicating and collaborating with all levels of associates regarding store operations, utilizing technology, business initiatives, merchandising, and company direction, introducing and leading company change efforts, providing clear expectations and guidance to implement business solutions, and communicating business objectives to teams effectively.
Models and demonstrates exceptional customer service standards to store associates by following and demonstrating the One Best Way (OBW) service model, managing and supporting customer service initiatives (e.g., store of the community, community outreach programs), ensuring customer needs, complaints, and issues are successfully resolved, developing and implementing action plans to correct deficiencies, and providing process improvement leadership to ensure a high-quality customer experience.
Provides supervision and development opportunities for hourly associates by hiring, training, and mentoring associates, assigning duties, setting clear expectations, providing associate recognition, communicating expectations consistently and effectively, ensuring awareness, and recruiting and developing qualified associates to meet staffing needs and achieve company growth potential.
Controls the unexplained loss of merchandise and improves profitability by identifying and communicating performance goals and objectives, building accountability for policies and procedures, measuring adherence to loss prevention policies and procedures, reviewing variances to inventory reports, conducting operational and pre-inventory reviews, gathering data, auditing results, and monitoring deficiency trends.
Identifies improvement opportunities, communicates and works with managers and associates to determine corrections needed to inventory controls, and influences the implementation and execution of control corrections.
Trains managers and associates on operational controls and processes in multiple stores.
Detects, deters, investigates, and resolves violations of company policies and criminal activities by investigating alleged fraud and other alleged illegal activities, gathering evidence, taking statements, writing case reports, and providing court room testimony as needed.
Partners in collaborative efforts with other investigative entities.
Monitors safety and risk controls within a facility by ensuring an effective safety program is in place, supervising safety team members, identifying accident trends to develop and implement solutions to prevent accidents, observing workplace practices, providing training to associates on accident prevention techniques, communicating plans to minimize accidents, overseeing safety reviews, and implementing plans to improve workplace safety.
Manages facility-level training and execution of asset protection, safety, and claims and receiving procedures by reviewing the application of policies, procedures, and compliance guidelines (e.g., cold chain, hazardous materials, operational controls), identifying gaps in expectations versus training, determining training needs, and developing and delivering training as needed.
Manages claims and receiving operations by ensuring proper policies and procedures are followed, ensuring the timely processing of claims (e.g., damaged, defective, returned, liquidated items) and merchandise deliveries (e.g., suppliers, third-party deliveries), and providing direction for claims or receiving issues.
Maintains necessary documentation and reporting.
Coordinates, completes, and oversees job-related activities and assignments by developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, supporting plans and initiatives to meet customer and business needs, identifying and communicating goals and objectives, building accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results, identifying and addressing improvement opportunities, and demonstrating adaptability and promoting continuous learning.
Ensures compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing related action plans, utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy, and providing direction and guidance on applying these in executing business processes and practices.
Respects the Individual by building high-performing teams, embracing differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences, creating a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging, creating opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform.
Works collaboratively, builds strong and trusting relationships, communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence.
Attracts and retains the best talent, empowers and develops talent, and recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
Acts with Integrity by maintaining and promoting the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, modeling the Walmart values to support and foster our culture, holding oneself and others accountable, and supporting Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).
Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent.
Serves Our Customers and Members by delivering results while putting the customer first, considering and adapting to how, where, and when customers shop, and applying the EDLP (Everyday Low Price) and EDLC (Everyday Low Cost) business models to all plans.
Makes decisions based on data, insights, and analysis, balances short- and long-term priorities, and considers our customers, fellow associates, shareholders, suppliers, business partners, and communities when making plans.
Strives for Excellence by displaying curiosity and a desire to learn, taking calculated risks, demonstrating courage and resilience, and encouraging learning from mistakes.
Drives continuous improvements, adopts and encourages the use of new technologies and skills, and supports others through change.

Benefits

Medical coverage
Vision coverage
Dental coverage
401(k)
Stock purchase
Company-paid life insurance
PTO (including sick leave)
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement
Jury duty
Voting leave
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
Company discounts
Military Leave Pay
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
Live Better U (Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates, covering tuition, books, and fees for programs ranging from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates)
Performance bonuses (annual or quarterly)
Regional Pay Zone (RPZ) (based on location)
Complex Structure (based on external factors that create challenges)
State Pay Differential