EMPLOYMENT AS LOSS PREVENTION MANAGER

BEVERLY BROBERG in Fresno, California said: HAVING SEVERAL YEARS IN RETAIL SALES AND HANDLING HIGH AMOUNT OF PRICEING AND BAR CODEING INVENTORY. STOCKING AND DEALING WITH SHRINKING STOCK PROBLEMS. I FEEL THAT THIS IS A CAREER THAT IS WAITING FOR ME.

CONTACT NUMBER IS (559) 827-8947 OR (559) 827-8945

You really need to clean up your spelling it terriable!

BEVERLY BROBERG in Fresno, California said: HAVING SEVERAL YEARS IN RETAIL SALES AND HANDLING HIGH AMOUNT OF PRICEING AND BAR CODEING INVENTORY. STOCKING AND DEALING WITH SHRINKING STOCK PROBLEMS. I FEEL THAT THIS IS A CAREER THAT IS WAITING FOR ME.

CONTACT NUMBER IS (559) 827-8947 OR (559) 827-8945

Clean up your spelling!

Several years of retail, and "handling" coded inventory, or in other words anything with a bar-code on it does not make for a LP Manager. It is one thing to state "deal" with shrink, but what have you done to resolve, and minimize top profit loss? Many people think a manger just manages agents, but in reality it's looking at store controllable operating profit, P&L across the board, interacting with all facets of management, and mitigating the never ending complaints of the LP department. I get this "jackassery" of statements frequently most of whom think are ready to be a manager in the loss prevention field. My advice is to start as an agent and get the basics first, there is a lot of fraud investigation, interviewing, and development of DE cases, external theft resolution, merchandise protection standards, and other specialized exception reports to be utilized daily. If you don't have at least 20% of what I just mentioned don't expect to be in that position long, if you don't show a ROI, you will be performance improvement out of a job.

Bob in San Francisco, California said: Several years of retail, and "handling" coded inventory, or in other words anything with a bar-code on it does not make for a LP Manager. It is one thing to state "deal" with shrink, but what have you done to resolve, and minimize top profit loss? Many people think a manger just manages agents, but in reality it's looking at store controllable operating profit, P&L across the board, interacting with all facets of management, and mitigating the never ending complaints of the LP department. I get this "jackassery" of statements frequently most of whom think are ready to be a manager in the loss prevention field. My advice is to start as an agent and get the basics first, there is a lot of fraud investigation, interviewing, and development of DE cases, external theft resolution, merchandise protection standards, and other specialized exception reports to be utilized daily. If you don't have at least 20% of what I just mentioned don't expect to be in that position long, if you don't show a ROI, you will be performance improvement out of a job.

Can you tell me about the lpm position ie schedule and good and bad points of the job.I am looking to work for Lowe's as an LPM. I have many years as a District and store LPM with Sears and JC Penney.

I hope I can be helpful. As Bob in San Fransisco puts it, he's right on the money and then there's more. You will be kept busy. You can be successful in this position only if you have a good Area Loss Prevention Manager and Mentor. It'll take a good year to learn the basics. If you don't have a good ALPM and/or Mentor, then you're wasting your time. That's one of the reasons there's a high turn over with Lowe's Loss Prevention is due to the lack of training. You will be dealing with everyone in the store. You need to be in a store where you have good management. Without it, it'll make your job 1000 times harder and will stress you out. If you become a salary manager, forget about your personal life. You work a minimum of 48 hours, but with all the work and trying to stay in compliant with your daily, weekly and monthly check lists, you will tend to work past the 48 hours to keep up and you'll never be caught up. Imagine trying to do all that work as a 40 hour LP Specialist. Then you are micro managed to death by the higher ups and you will be put on a short leash, having to ask for permission for whatever you want to do. Most of the time your hands are tied when dealing with constant refunders and shoplifters. Also we're not allowed to interview internals ourselves. There are corporate investigators for that. Hopefully, the investigator comes to your town in time before your internal skips out and quits. I had lost a couple of internals due to waiting for more than a couple of months for he investigator to show up in my town. I came into the company having to learn much of the job on my own and coming out with it high ROIs, being way under budget for my inventories and keeping the shrink low in my store. I came into the company, being told that it's a great company to work for, but unfortunately, I found out the hard way. Sorry to sound negative, but this is what I see on my end. I wish anyone luck if you get hired on and hope you don't go through what I have be

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I read these comments, and it seems to me everyone asking information is trying to short-cut their way into an management position. The only way I see this happening is, if you were one of those poor individuals that their position was eliminated (district merchandising manager), and they offerred you a DLPM position, congrats. I have known Area LPMs that were DMMs, and really they had no clue what was going on.

Let me be clear, you will have to start at the bottom, unless you have a degree in Administration of Justice, or law enforcement experience. Even then as being a Police Officer, it is a totally different beast.

Everyone should read "PoorSap's" post, it is true most of the time an LP Manager is lead around by the nose. I hear this common phrase, and everyone in the industry knows what it means, upper management calls us "Sales Prevention". We suggent common sense actions, such as please stop placing the $500 merchandised product right at the entrance, but on the other hand, its a new item that needs to be seen right away. We often loose this battle, and a middle ground is seldom established.

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Joe in Raleigh, North Carolina said: Can you tell me about the lpm position ie schedule and good and bad points of the job.I am looking to work for Lowe's as an LPM. I have many years as a District and store LPM with Sears and JC Penney.

Joe if you asked this in an interview I would not hire you, as a matter of fact I would ask you to leave. At your level of experience you allegedly have that is frankly a stupid question. Also, Jasmine from whatever republic you need to visit a school and learn English well enough to spell your name correctly.

Smitty in West Sacramento, California said: Joe if you asked this in an interview I would not hire you, as a matter of fact I would ask you to leave. At your level of experience you allegedly have that is frankly a stupid question. Also, Jasmine from whatever republic you need to visit a school and learn English well enough to spell your name correctly.[/QUOTE

Smitty,

Is this an interview? If you cannot be helpfull, why just rip people?

Smitty, you don't exactly come across as a Rhode scholar yourself. Before you start criticizing others for their spelling or the type of questions they ask, take a look at your own post and realize that you could use a College level English course as well.

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