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Date: 08/12/2025

Loss Prevention Managers

Plan and direct policies, procedures, or systems to prevent the loss of assets. Determine risk exposure or potential liability, and develop risk control measures.

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  • Analyze retail data to identify current or emerging trends in theft or fraud.
  • Review loss prevention exception reports and cash discrepancies to ensure adherence to guidelines.
  • Assess security needs across locations to ensure proper deployment of loss prevention resources, such as staff and technology.
  • Investigate or interview individuals suspected of shoplifting or internal theft.
  • Identify potential for loss and develop strategies to eliminate it.
  • Advise retail managers on compliance with applicable codes, laws, regulations, or standards.
  • Provide recommendations and solutions in crisis situations such as workplace violence, protests, and demonstrations.
  • Collaborate with law enforcement to investigate and solve external theft or fraud cases.
  • Maintain documentation of all loss prevention activity.
  • Identify potential for loss and develop strategies to eliminate it.
  • Perform or direct inventory investigations in response to shrink results outside of acceptable ranges.
  • Administer systems and programs to reduce loss, maintain inventory control, or increase safety.
  • Direct loss prevention audit programs including target store audits, maintenance audits, safety audits, or electronic article surveillance (EAS) audits.
  • Hire or supervise loss prevention staff.
  • Coordinate or conduct internal investigations of problems such as employee theft and violations of corporate loss prevention policies.
  • Perform cash audits and deposit investigations to fully account for store cash.
  • Monitor compliance to operational, safety, or inventory control procedures, including physical security standards.
  • Verify correct use and maintenance of physical security systems, such as closed-circuit television, merchandise tags, and burglar alarms.
  • Direct loss prevention audit programs including target store audits, maintenance audits, safety audits, or electronic article surveillance (EAS) audits.
  • Develop and maintain partnerships with federal, state, or local law enforcement agencies or members of the retail loss prevention community.
  • Hire or supervise loss prevention staff.
  • Coordinate or conduct internal investigations of problems such as employee theft and violations of corporate loss prevention policies.
  • Monitor and review paperwork procedures and systems to prevent error-related shortages.
  • Advise retail establishments on development of loss-investigation procedures.
  • Supervise surveillance, detection, or criminal processing related to theft and criminal cases.
  • Train loss prevention staff, retail managers, or store employees on loss control and prevention measures.
  • Visit stores to ensure compliance with company policies and procedures.
  • Direct installation of covert surveillance equipment, such as security cameras.
  • Maintain databases such as bad check logs, reports on multiple offenders, and alarm activation lists.
  • Recommend improvements in loss prevention programs, staffing, scheduling, or training.
  • Coordinate theft and fraud investigations involving career criminals or organized group activities.

Work Activities

Work Activities

  • Analyze retail data to identify current or emerging trends in theft or fraud.
  • Review loss prevention exception reports and cash discrepancies to ensure adherence to guidelines.
  • Assess security needs across locations to ensure proper deployment of loss prevention resources, such as staff and technology.
  • Investigate or interview individuals suspected of shoplifting or internal theft.
  • Identify potential for loss and develop strategies to eliminate it.
  • Advise retail managers on compliance with applicable codes, laws, regulations, or standards.
  • Provide recommendations and solutions in crisis situations such as workplace violence, protests, and demonstrations.
  • Collaborate with law enforcement to investigate and solve external theft or fraud cases.
  • Maintain documentation of all loss prevention activity.
  • Identify potential for loss and develop strategies to eliminate it.
  • Perform or direct inventory investigations in response to shrink results outside of acceptable ranges.
  • Administer systems and programs to reduce loss, maintain inventory control, or increase safety.
  • Direct loss prevention audit programs including target store audits, maintenance audits, safety audits, or electronic article surveillance (EAS) audits.
  • Hire or supervise loss prevention staff.
  • Coordinate or conduct internal investigations of problems such as employee theft and violations of corporate loss prevention policies.
  • Perform cash audits and deposit investigations to fully account for store cash.
  • Monitor compliance to operational, safety, or inventory control procedures, including physical security standards.
  • Verify correct use and maintenance of physical security systems, such as closed-circuit television, merchandise tags, and burglar alarms.
  • Direct loss prevention audit programs including target store audits, maintenance audits, safety audits, or electronic article surveillance (EAS) audits.
  • Develop and maintain partnerships with federal, state, or local law enforcement agencies or members of the retail loss prevention community.
  • Hire or supervise loss prevention staff.
  • Coordinate or conduct internal investigations of problems such as employee theft and violations of corporate loss prevention policies.
  • Monitor and review paperwork procedures and systems to prevent error-related shortages.
  • Advise retail establishments on development of loss-investigation procedures.
  • Supervise surveillance, detection, or criminal processing related to theft and criminal cases.
  • Train loss prevention staff, retail managers, or store employees on loss control and prevention measures.
  • Visit stores to ensure compliance with company policies and procedures.
  • Direct installation of covert surveillance equipment, such as security cameras.
  • Maintain databases such as bad check logs, reports on multiple offenders, and alarm activation lists.
  • Recommend improvements in loss prevention programs, staffing, scheduling, or training.
  • Coordinate theft and fraud investigations involving career criminals or organized group activities.

Skills

  • Repairing

    Repairing machines or systems using the right tools.

  • Installation

    Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs.

  • Operations Analysis

    Figuring out what a product or service needs to be able to do.

  • Technology Design

    Making equipment and technology useful for customers.

  • Writing

    Writing things for co-workers or customers.

  • Social Perceptiveness

    Understanding people's reactions.

  • Negotiation

    Bringing people together to solve differences.

  • Management of Personnel Resources

    Selecting and managing the best workers for a job.

  • Management of Financial Resources

    Making spending decisions and keeping track of what is spent.

  • Operation and Control

    Using equipment or systems.

  • Programming

    Writing computer programs.

  • Equipment Maintenance

    Planning and doing the basic maintenance on equipment.

  • Equipment Selection

    Deciding what kind of tools and equipment are needed to do a job.

  • Coordination

    Changing what is done based on other people's actions.

  • Active Learning

    Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.

  • Active Listening

    Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.

  • Monitoring

    Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.

  • Science

    Using scientific rules and strategies to solve problems.

  • Management of Material Resources

    Managing equipment and materials.

  • Judgment and Decision Making

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.

  • Complex Problem Solving

    Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.

  • Systems Analysis

    Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.

  • Operations Monitoring

    Watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.

  • Reading Comprehension

    Reading work-related information.

  • Speaking

    Talking to others.

  • Mathematics

    Using math to solve problems.

  • Learning Strategies

    Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.

  • Persuasion

    Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.

  • Critical Thinking

    Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.

  • Instructing

    Teaching people how to do something.

  • Service Orientation

    Looking for ways to help people.

  • Quality Control Analysis

    Testing how well a product or service works.

  • Troubleshooting

    Figuring out what is causing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs to not work.

  • Time Management

    Managing your time and the time of other people.

  • Systems Evaluation

    Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.

WorkKeys®

Applied Math
5
Workplace Documents
5
Graphic Literacy
5

Abilities

  • Oral Expression

    Communicating by speaking.

  • Response Orientation

    Quickly deciding if you should move your hand, foot, or other body part.

  • Static Strength

    Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying.

  • Near Vision

    Seeing details up close.

  • Speech Clarity

    Speaking clearly.

  • Problem Sensitivity

    Noticing when problems happen.

  • Sound Localization

    Noticing the direction that a sound came from.

  • Mathematical Reasoning

    Choosing the right type of math to solve a problem.

  • Dynamic Flexibility

    Quickly and repeatedly bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching out with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Spatial Orientation

    Knowing where things are around you.

  • Memorization

    Remembering words, numbers, pictures, or steps.

  • Arm-Hand Steadiness

    Keeping your arm or hand steady.

  • Control Precision

    Quickly changing the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat.

  • Multilimb Coordination

    Using your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down.

  • Wrist-Finger Speed

    Making fast, simple, repeated movements of your fingers, hands, and wrists.

  • Time Sharing

    Doing two or more things at the same time.

  • Oral Comprehension

    Listening and understanding what people say.

  • Selective Attention

    Paying attention to something without being distracted.

  • Information Ordering

    Ordering or arranging things.

  • Trunk Strength

    Using your lower back and stomach.

  • Hearing Sensitivity

    Telling the difference between sounds.

  • Depth Perception

    Deciding which thing is closer or farther away from you, or deciding how far away it is from you.

  • Gross Body Equilibrium

    Keeping your balance or staying upright.

  • Speech Recognition

    Recognizing spoken words.

  • Flexibility of Closure

    Seeing hidden patterns.

  • Stamina

    Exercising for a long time without getting out of breath.

  • Visual Color Discrimination

    Noticing the difference between colors, including shades and brightness.

  • Speed of Closure

    Quickly knowing what you are looking at.

  • Written Comprehension

    Reading and understanding what is written.

  • Deductive Reasoning

    Using rules to solve problems.

  • Explosive Strength

    Jumping, sprinting, or throwing something.

  • Visualization

    Imagining how something will look after it is moved around or changed.

  • Written Expression

    Communicating by writing.

  • Rate Control

    Changing when and how fast you move based on how something else is moving.

  • Reaction Time

    Quickly moving your hand, finger, or foot based on a sound, light, picture or other command.

  • Auditory Attention

    Paying attention to one sound while there are other distracting sounds.

  • Perceptual Speed

    Quickly comparing groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.

  • Originality

    Creating new and original ideas.

  • Gross Body Coordination

    Moving your arms, legs, and mid-section together while your whole body is moving.

  • Dynamic Strength

    Exercising for a long time without your muscles getting tired.

  • Extent Flexibility

    Bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching with your body, arms, and/or legs.

  • Fluency of Ideas

    Coming up with lots of ideas.

  • Glare Sensitivity

    Seeing something even if there is a glare or very bright light.

  • Number Facility

    Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.

  • Peripheral Vision

    Seeing something to your side when your are looking ahead.

  • Far Vision

    Seeing details that are far away.

  • Speed of Limb Movement

    Quickly moving your arms and legs.

  • Manual Dexterity

    Holding or moving items with your hands.

  • Inductive Reasoning

    Making general rules or coming up with answers from lots of detailed information.

  • Finger Dexterity

    Putting together small parts with your fingers.

  • Category Flexibility

    Grouping things in different ways.

  • Night Vision

    Seeing at night or under low light.

Knowledge

  • Transportation

    Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.

  • Foreign Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.

  • Economics and Accounting

    Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.

  • Customer and Personal Service

    Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

  • Fine Arts

    Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.

  • Public Safety and Security

    Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.

  • Law and Government

    Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.

  • Mathematics

    Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

  • English Language

    Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.

  • Communications and Media

    Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

  • Physics

    Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.

  • Education and Training

    Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

  • Design

    Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.

  • Food Production

    Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.

  • History and Archeology

    Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.

  • Personnel and Human Resources

    Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.

  • Telecommunications

    Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.

  • Administration and Management

    Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.

  • Medicine and Dentistry

    Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.

  • Production and Processing

    Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.

  • Geography

    Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.

  • Philosophy and Theology

    Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.

  • Building and Construction

    Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.

  • Sales and Marketing

    Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.

  • Chemistry

    Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.

  • Administrative

    Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.

  • Psychology

    Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.

  • Computers and Electronics

    Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.

  • Therapy and Counseling

    Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.

  • Mechanical

    Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.

  • Biology

    Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.

  • Sociology and Anthropology

    Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.

  • Engineering and Technology

    Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.

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Pay

  • Typical Salary
  • $206,880
    $126,600
    $61,940
    Ohio
    US
    $227,590
    $136,550
    $68,860
  • Typical Hourly Wage
  • $99
    $61
    $30
    Ohio
    US
    $109
    $66
    $33

Ohio Employment Trends

  • Currently Employed 17,430
  • Yearly Projected Openings 1290

Typical Education

Personality

Conventional: People interested in this work like activities that include data, detail, and regular routines.They do well at jobs that need:
  • Integrity
  • Dependability
  • Leadership
  • Self Control
  • Attention to Detail
  • Initiative

Tools

  • Alarm systems
  • Closed circuit television CCTV system
  • Fire alarm control panel
  • Notebook computers
  • Personal computers
  • Security or access control systems
  • Special purpose telephones
  • Video monitors

Technology

  • Accounting software
  • Business intelligence and data analysis software
  • Calendar and scheduling software
  • Cloud-based data access and sharing software
  • Data base user interface and query software
  • Electronic mail software
  • Enterprise application integration software
  • Enterprise resource planning ERP software
  • Human resources software
  • Inventory management software
  • Office suite software
  • Operating system software
  • Point of sale POS software
  • Presentation software
  • Project management software
  • Spreadsheet software
  • Time accounting software
  • Word processing software
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