About The Position

Assets Protection (AP) teams function to keep our guests, team, and brand safe and secure and lead through crisis events. They protect profitable sales by mitigating shortage risks, preventing, investigating, and resolving theft and fraud to ensure product is available for our guests. At Target, we believe in our team members having meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career. The role of an Executive Team Leader - Assets Protection can provide you with experience managing a safe and secure culture, including crisis response, a strong safety environment, and crowd management planning and providing support to both guests and team members. It also offers experience in creating strategic AP strategies and goals and delivering results through your team, identifying strategic resolutions of external theft and fraud and apprehending individuals attempting to cause a loss, in accordance with Target policy, and managing the identification and resolution of internal investigations. Additionally, it provides skills in recruiting, selecting, and talent management of hourly team members and leaders.

Requirements

  • 4 year degree or equivalent experience
  • Meet any state or local licensure and/or other legal requirements related to the position
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Strong business acumen
  • Comfortable dealing with ambiguity
  • Manage conflict, lead and hold others accountable
  • Relate well with and interact with all levels of the organization
  • Strong cognitive skills, including problem analysis, decision making, financial and quantitative analysis
  • Learn and adapt to current technology needs
  • Manage workload and prioritize tasks independently
  • Access all areas of the building to respond to guest or team member issues
  • Interpret instructions, reports and information
  • Apprehend subjects in accordance with company policy
  • Scan, handle and move merchandise efficiently and safely, including frequently lifting or moving merchandise up to 40 pounds
  • Climb up and down ladders
  • Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends and holidays) and regular attendance necessary

Nice To Haves

  • Working in a fun and energetic environment makes you excited…. We work efficiently and as a team to deliver for our guests
  • Providing service to our guests that makes them say I LOVE TARGET! excites you…. That’s why we love working at Target
  • Leading teams who are stocking, setting and selling Target product sounds like your thing… That’s the core of what we do
  • You aren’t looking for Monday thru Friday job where you are at a computer all day… We are busy all day (especially on the weekends), making it easy for the guest to feel welcomed, inspired and rewarded

Responsibilities

  • Drive total store sales and increase profitability by ensuring product is in stock and available to our guests.
  • Manage, influence, and validate a safe and secure culture by driving physical security and safety processes; lead store response and emergency crisis situations and create plans for in-store events.
  • Educate store leaders and teams on emergency preparedness and physical security procedures.
  • Identify shortage risks in key divisions and develop a strategy and tactics that will reduce shortage and drive profitable sales.
  • Act as a key resource for company initiatives for AP team leaders in your district/market.
  • Lead investigative and verbal de-escalation classroom trainings; facilitate other trainings as needed for your AP team, store, or district.
  • Maintain all required training.
  • Manage the identification and resolution of internal investigations; complete internal interviews for your store and nearby stores at the discretion of your leader.
  • Anticipate and identify theft and shortage trends in your store and develop proactive strategies to prevent shortage and theft.
  • Determine operational shortage priorities; educate and influence store teams on these priorities.
  • Manage the prevention, identification, and resolution of external theft incidents and investigations.
  • Work a schedule that aligns to guest and business needs based on safe and secure and theft patterns (this includes early morning/overnight shifts, evening, and weekends).
  • Build partnerships to identify market trends and competition strategies; leverage guest insights and feedback to drive the business and be the destination of choice for our guests.
  • Build a close partnership with Store Director.
  • Develop, schedule, and deploy resources based on safe and secure and theft trends.
  • Plan, lead, and follow-up on organizational and operational change.
  • Establish a culture of accountability through clear expectations and performance management.
  • Anticipate staffing needs, talent plan and recruit – both long and short term.
  • Support the onboarding and development of AP Team Leaders in your district/market.
  • Develop, coach, and lead your team members and Team Leaders (if applicable) to elevate their skills and expertise.
  • Create, communicate, influence, and educate AP priorities (including shortage priorities) to your team, peers, and store teams.
  • Create and model the safety culture in store by recognizing safe behaviors and identifying and resolving safety hazards and unsafe behaviors; investigate injuries that occur to determine root cause and resolved through appropriate action plans and partnerships.
  • Act as first responder for in-store incidents (e.g., security, weather, etc.).
  • Provide service and a shopping experience that meets the needs of the guest.
  • Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through continuous development, modeling inclusive behaviors, and proactively managing bias.
  • As a key carrier, follow all safe and secure training and processes.
  • All other duties based on business needs.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
  • 401(k)
  • Employee discount
  • Short term disability
  • Long term disability
  • Paid sick leave
  • Paid national holidays
  • Paid vacation

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What This Job Offers

Job Type

Full-time

Career Level

Manager

Education Level

Associate degree

Number of Employees

5,001-10,000 employees

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