Market Asset Protection Manager

Most days tend to involve a blend of store visits, investigations work, and partner coordination with market operations and store-level leadership — walking stores to evaluate AP programs, supporting investigations, and partnering with store managers on training and process. You'll often spend part of the time on trend analysis that surfaces shrink patterns across the market.

The harder part is often balancing prevention work against customer experience and team safety combined with the road time managing across multiple stores. You'll typically navigate decisions about apprehension policy and program direction where employee and customer safety, legal exposure, and brand reputation all weigh in.

People who tend to thrive here are investigative, analytical, and operationally calm under pressure. The trade-off is the road time and the cumulative weight of carrying market-level AP responsibility. If you find satisfaction in building AP programs that protect both the business and the people in it, the role can be a respected place in retail operations.