Asset Protection Field Manager

About the role

Asset Protection Field Manager

Permanent full time contract, 5/7 days Sunday - Saturday contract (Must be available to work weekends)

£55,000 - £60,000 per annum + Car + Bonus + Pension + BUPA + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday

National role- travel required across UK up to 4 days a week.

We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they’ll love. Join us as a Asset Protection Field Manager and you’ll be a big part of this.

Key responsibilities

To lead the Asset Protection Field team and partner with Regional Managers and Divisional Directors to Coach, Influence, and Implement B&Q’s asset protection strategy, ensuring its effectiveness to deliver the businesses stock loss targets, procedural compliance and store safety standards.

• Lead a team of Asset protection partners who are responsible for implementing the B&Q stock loss strategy, improving process compliance and store safety standards by working in partnership with Regional Managers to develop ways of working to ensure effective communication and buy-in across all stakeholders
• Use data and insights to identify trends and causes of loss across the business and respond to critical store or regional opportunities
• Ensure that controls and measures in the plan are adequate to prevent risks to stock loss,
• Responsible for holding high risk store reviews
• Enables compliance to Health and safety, Legal and Store process, and procedures within the retail function
• Enable the clear focus on stock management routines and digital processes in line with the business growth areas
• Provide operational guidance and coaching for our new store estate through the field team
• Take ownership of all Retail CRM related workstreams ensuring we have systems and processes in place
• Provide regular updates to the retail Leadership on Asset protection strategy, implementation, and results
• Identifies opportunities through the team to design out loss and work in collaboration with the Transformation team to create future simplified solutions
• Keeps up to date with industry trends and the potential impact on the business, using this information to recommend and implement changes to the way the business operates
• Lead the team to deliver the asset protection plan, driving high performance and engagement and role modelling the B&Q values
• Provider of expert coaching and talent development reviews for all asset team members.
• Undertake other duties from time to time as may be reasonably required

Required skills & experience

Required Skills & Experience:

• Ability to lead, develop and coach teams to drive high performance
• Ability to communicate and influence across a range of stakeholders
• Previous experience within Asset/Loss prevention at a leadership level
• Knowledge of the security industry and how it impacts asset/loss prevention
• Experience of implementing asset protection strategies
• Previous experience of working in retail and understanding of end-to-end asset/loss prevention processes and procedures
• Keeps up to date on industry trends and the potential impact on the business

Essential Technical / Professional Qualifications:

• Previous experience in leading Asset Protection teams