Job Description

The Role:

As a Loss Prevention Team Leader, you'll play a vital role in protecting our colleagues, customers, and company assets within your store. You'll be instrumental in fostering a centre of excellence for Loss Prevention Officers (LPOs), ensuring high standards, effective training, and strong team leadership. This is a hands-on role where you'll directly impact the success of your team and contribute to maintaining a secure retail environment.

This role is based in our Fosse Park Store

What You’ll Take On:

• Liaise regularly with the Loss Prevention Manager and daily with Store Management to safeguard company assets.
• Develop your store into a training hub for new LPOs, ensuring compliance and skill development.
• Manage the day-to-day operations of the store LPO team, taking full ownership of their performance.
• Assist in the recruitment and induction of new LPOs, conducting initial telephone interviews and in-store training.
• Conduct 30/60 day reviews for all new LPOs within your team, acting as their dedicated mentor.
• Ensure your team adheres to all Next security procedures & policies
• Manage and amend the store's LPO rotas, including cover for holidays, sickness etc
• Maintain strong communication channels with store management and the Loss Prevention Manager to deliver expected service levels.
• Cover selected Senior LPO duties during their absence or holidays.
• Support the Regional Loss Prevention Manager and Loss Prevention Manager with LPO audit visits in your store.
• Facilitate effective communication between your team, store management, and relevant retail crime reduction partnerships (e.g., Shopping Centres/Retail
• Parks/Town Centre Security & Police).
• Ensure all major external thefts are reported promptly escalated to the LP Department and Police when necessary, encouraging intelligence sharing through various platforms.

What You’ll Bring:

• We're looking for an enthusiastic and proactive individual with a keen eye for detail and a passion for loss prevention.
• Flexibility to travel to other stores within the region and work 5 out of 7 days, including weekends and evenings.
• A hardworking and self-motivated approach with unquestionable integrity.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to thrive under pressure.
• A strong ability to demonstrate initiative.
• Confident and effective verbal communication skills, with a good level of tact and diplomacy.
• A minimum of 12 months' previous security or loss prevention experience.
• The ability to interpret and understand company stock loss data.
• Good literacy and numeracy skills, including experience working with figures, understanding percentages, and following written instructions.

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You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 80 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!