Store Assets Protection Executive Intern (Store Leadership Intern) - Inland Empire, CA (Starting Summer 2026)

Assets Protection Executive Intern

The job of Assets Protection (AP) teams is to keep our guests, team, and brand secure and lead through crisis events. They protect profitable sales by mitigating shortage risks, preventing theft and fraud to ensure product is available for our guest.

As an AP Executive Intern, you will get a valuable, realistic preview of the Executive Team Leader Assets Protection role (Assistant Store Manager Assets Protection) over a defined period of time. During our summer program, you will work closely with a mentor while learning the AP business area and other team functions within our stores.

As an AP Executive Intern, no two days are ever the same, but a typical day will most likely include the following responsibilities :

• Take initiative to learn how to be an AP leader by seeking out opportunities for growth and development; continuously learn throughout the internship experience
• Provide new ideas and recommend solutions to business or team opportunities
• Commit to learning Targets expectations of leaders and use them to personally develop by asking questions and seeking feedback
• Actively participate in internship program training activities, developmental opportunities, and events.
• Demonstrate willingness to take risks; step out of comfort zone and take on new assignments
• Partner with store leaders regarding TM performance by teaching, coaching, training, and delivering timely performance feedback
• Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety, and compliance; lead the team to work in the same way and hold others accountable to this commitment
• Influence and validate a security culture by driving physical security and safety processes; lead store response and emergency crisis situations and create plans for in-store events
• Educate store leaders and teams on emergency preparedness and physical security procedures
• Educate store leadership on merchandise protection best practice and audit execution in partnership with key partners
• Identify shortage risks in key areas and work with other leaders to develop tactics that will reduce shortage and drive profitable sales
• Support the identification and resolution of internal investigations
• Identify theft and shortage trends in your store, and develop proactive strategies to prevent shortage and theft
• Educate and influence store teams on operational shortage priorities
• Support the prevention (inclusive of merchandise protection budgeting), identification, and resolution of external theft incidents and investigations
• Work a schedule that aligns to guest and business needs based on safe and secure and theft patterns (this includes early morning / overnight shifts, evening, and weekends)
• Support store safety culture through modeling and recognizing safe behaviors, identifying and correcting hazards in partnership with store leaders, holding team accountable to following safety expectations, assisting with incident response, and reporting / investigating injuries timely and accurately.
• Owns safety program management routines such as Monthly Safety Meetings / Observations.
• Lead an in-store security culture by focusing on deterrence, response, and resolution in order to improve physical security processes.
• Lead merchandise protection strategies across the total store; including ordering, storage, and application as directed by best practices.
• Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences.
• Demonstrate how to engage with guests when assistance is needed, engage with guests in a welcoming way, and help solve their specific needs.
• Work in a safe manner at all times to benefit yourself and others; identify and correct hazards; comply with all safety policies and best practices.
• All other duties based on business needs.

This may be the right job for you if :

The good news is that we have some amazing training that will help teach you everything you need to know to be a Stores Executive Intern. But there are a few things you need from the get-go :

We are an awesome place to work and care about our teams, so we want to make sure we are clear on a few more basics that we expect :

Target will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco and City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinances.

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