Regional Loss Prevention Manager (Northeast)

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What will you do? 

A day in the life of a Regional Loss Prevention Manager at VF looks a little like this. 

This role carries a critical function: supporting an entire region of stores while serving as the subject matter expert in loss mitigation. The position holds the responsibility of owning and overseeing all matters and investigations related to internal and external theft. Close collaboration with retail partners will be key in developing thoughtful action plans and exercising practical judgment to drive shrink reduction. Acting as a teacher, the role will coach, develop, and train on loss prevention and operational excellence through meetings and audits. Passion and drive in this work are contagious, helping to gain buy-in and influence key stakeholder decisions. Success will also depend on cultivating strong relationships with the Regional Director and District Sales Managers supported in the role.

While this role is remote, the ideal candidate must reside within or very close to the territory covered (Northeastern United States).

Let’s break down that day-in-the-life a bit more. 

• Determine and create Loss Prevention strategy for each unique regional needs within 100+ retail locations across multiple brands, multiple leaders and multiple states.

• Build travel strategy within region to ensure you are in the right place at the right time to influence leaders, mitigate loss, eliminate safety concerns, and have an impact on business results.

• Utilize brand and VF audit programs to drive loss prevention and operational compliance and evaluate store performance. Partnering with business leaders develop action plans to improve business results and shrink numbers.

• Educate, train and challenge regional leaders and team members to incorporate loss prevention strategies, policies and best practices into daily interactions with customer ensuring a loss prevention mindset at all times.

• Escalation point for all high-risk loss prevention situations within the region, assess needs, determine appropriate solution plan, ensuring safety of employees and product are top priority.

• Develop reduction strategies for all high shrink stores, educate, train and audit to ensure shrink numbers decrease to appropriate levels.

• Provide feedback, industry best practices, concerns and innovative industry solutions for all loss prevention equipment such as exception reporting, case management systems, alarms, safes, CCTV and EAS to support the stores shrink and building security.  

• Investigate, interview, and resolve all issues related to internal and external theft in the region.

• Develop and maintain relationships with external partners, such as law enforcement, district attorneys and outside retailors to support combating Organized Retail Crime.  

• Support and assist in management of third-party security within market.

What do you need to succeed? 

We all have unique skills that we bring to work and celebrate every day. For this role, there are foundation skills you’ll need to succeed and excel. Additionally, while formal education in a related field is great to have, we are most interested in your 6+ years of experience and professional achievements. 

• A bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 2 years general management experience in the Loss Prevention field -OR- an equivalent combination of experience and training that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.

• Ability to read and interpret documents such as employment handbook, safety rules, and policies and procedures manuals.