Executive Team Leader Assets Protection (Assistant Manager Loss Prevention) - Buffalo, NY

Target•Buffalo, NY

19h•$64,000 - $128,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Executive Team Leader - Assets Protection (AP) role is crucial in maintaining a safe and secure environment for guests, team members, and the brand. This position focuses on protecting profitable sales by mitigating shortage risks, preventing, investigating, and resolving theft and fraud to ensure product availability for guests. Target emphasizes providing meaningful experiences that foster skill development for career growth. This role offers experience in managing a safe and secure culture, crisis response, safety environment management, crowd management planning, and supporting guests and team members. It also involves creating strategic AP strategies and goals, identifying resolutions for external theft and fraud, apprehending individuals causing loss, and managing internal investigations. Additionally, the role includes 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

Nice To Haves

Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends and holidays) and regular attendance necessary

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.