Regional Asset Protection Manager

A typical week often involves store visits, investigation oversight, team management, and the steady cadence of operational reviews — walking high-shrink locations, coaching district AP managers, working through major investigations, sitting in regional operations meetings. You're often balancing investigative work with the broader operational reality of retail. Shrink rates, investigation closure, and safety incidents are the operating measures.

What's harder than people expect is the relational complexity — asset protection sits between store leadership, investigators, HR, legal, and law enforcement, and the lines move depending on case type. Variance across employers is real: at large retailers the program is structured with corporate AP support; at mid-market chains you may be a region leader with thin staff.

People who tend to thrive here have investigative instincts, retail-operations fluency, and the people-handling judgment to manage cases involving employees. LPC and Wicklander-Zulawski credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the weight of handling sensitive investigations and the day-to-day grind of being on the road across a multi-state region.